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Germany: Top court′s order on foreign nursing home workers
The cost of employing many low paid workers, especially from abroad, has potentially escalated to excessive levels because of a Federal Labour Court (BAG) Ruling … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Denmark: Tax agency clarifies PE rules for employee home offices under DTAs with Germany, Switzerland
The Danish Tax Council has decided that a foreign company asking its employees to work from home in Denmark does not give rise to “permanent establishment” … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Egypt: Proposed labour law amendment to increase paid annual leave
Employees will receive 15 days paid annual leave in year one and 21 days leave in year two under a proposed labour law amendment currently being debated by the two chambers of Egypt’s Parliament … Please login to view this …
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Africa: COMESA social charter
The Common Market for East and Southern African States (COMESA) published its Social Charter in March 2015 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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USA: UAW members to vote in fall on direct election of leaders
Industrial democracy may be coming to the union movement this Autumn, when members of the UAW are asked to vote whether they want to directly elect their union leaders … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Uruguay: New law to regulate remote-working
A new law on telework has now been approved by the Chamber of Deputies … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Peru: Underemployment rate (Q2 2021)
The trend in the capital city, Lima, mirrors the situation in many other countries, with recovery in jobs concentrated amongst the “underemployed” … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Chile: Commitment to eradicate forced labour
A new law has been introduced (Law No … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Canada: Regulatory amendments increase foreign workers’ rights
According to the newly announced Amendments to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (Temporary Foreign Workers), employers must now provide temporary foreign workers with an employment agreement … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining …
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South Korea: Anti-feminism backlash on the rise
A backlash against feminism is endangering women’s rights in a country where great progress has been achieved in recent years … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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New Zealand: Less than half of disabled people under the age of 65 are working
In Q2 2021, disabled people were more than twice as likely to be unemployed than non-disabled people … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Japan: Government eases quarantine procedures for countries including UK and Pakistan
Strict quarantine measures have been partially relaxed for nationals from over 20 different countries … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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China: Anti-graft body criticizes business drinking after Alibaba scandal
The government is actively seeking to discourage the excesses often associated with guanxi (business networking) … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Belgium: Home working accounts for two out of five employees (June 2021)
Home working remained very common in June 2021, with 41 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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India: Advise private employers to give 5% quota in jobs to disabled
A Labour court in Rajasthan has order the State’s Labour Department to prepare a measure requiring private sector employers to apply a 5% disability quota … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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