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Uganda: Protection against sexual harassment in the workplace
Pressure is building in the national parliament for an expansion of protection against sexual harassment in the workplace through incorporation of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Violence and Harassment Convention (C190) into national law … Please login to view this …
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UAE: 100,000 Golden visas on offer for world’s best coders
To attract the best international skills and talents in the field of computer programming, a National Programme for Coders has been launched … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Saudi Arabia: Early retirement may vanish in Saudi pension reform
The Saudi Cabinet has recently approved the merger of the Public Pension Agency and the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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USA: Portland’s hazard pay wage won’t take effect until January 2022
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the $18-per-hour emergency gross minimum wage in Portland will not go into effect until 1st January 2022 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Morocco: An agreement in the field of employment (Morocco-Tunisia)
A memorandum of understanding has been signed between the Tunisian Social Affairs Ministry and Moroccan Ministry of Labour concerning employment and social protection … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Mauritius: Changes proposed to strengthen occupation permit
A number of important changes are in the pipeline concerning occupational permits … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Côte d’Ivoire: U.S. Supreme Court rules for Nestle, Cargill over slavery lawsuit
The US Supreme Court has ruled 8:1 that the companies Nestlé USA and Cargill could not be held accountable for the forced labour of young children in the Ivory Coast – required to pick cocoa for 14 hours a day …
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United Kingdom: Equal pay and comparability of pay terms
The establishment of equal pay comparisons across different job functions and locations was given new clarity by the Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley case … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Malta: Bill to amend Persons with Disability (Employment) Act
A draft amendment to the Persons with Disability (Employment) Act is currently being debated by the House of Representatives … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Latvia: Females on average earn 22 % less than males (2020)
According to the provisional data from the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB), over the period 2019-2020, the average gross hourly earnings gap between female and male workers rose by 2 … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Australia: Data protection
Both the 1988 Australian Privacy Act and 2009 Fair Work Act contained safeguards to prevent the misuse of personal data and discrimination against candidates on the basis of background data requests … Please login to view this content or become …
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United Kingdom: Sodexo UK and Ireland reveals 5% ethnicity pay gap
The first ever published ethnicity pay gap report by the catering group Sodexo has revealed that in 2020 “Black, Asian and Mixed Ethnic (BAME)” employees in the UK and Ireland earned, on average, 5% less than ethnically white employees … …
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Irish Republic: Tánaiste announces details of statutory sick pay scheme
The Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, has announced further details of the government’s statutory sick pay scheme … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Germany: Solutions to counteract the harmful effects of commuting
A research team from Otto Beisheim School of Management has found that negative experiences of employees during their daily commute can seriously affect their work effectiveness … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Japan: Japan Inc to fall far short of goal for more female managers – Reuters poll
A recent survey of Japanese companies carried out on behalf of the Reuters news agency, found that by far the majority of companies had less than 10% of their managerial positions filled by women … Please login to view this …
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