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Australia: JobKeeper Payment and income support extended
The JobKeeper Payment has been extended by six months until 28th March 2021 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Singapore: Employers taken to task for abusing jobs support scheme
Although the Job Support Scheme (JSS) for existing local employees has been extended up to the end of this year – and beyond to March 2021 in hard hit sectors – there have been numerous irregularities found in a large …
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Portugal: Hour bank system
Continente supermarket stores in Lisbon, Porto, and Coimbra are planning to reintroduce a former “hour bank system” because of recent rises in labour costs … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Poland: Contractual obligation alteration
If an employer wishes to change the pay, terms, and conditions of employees, they may do so either through mutual agreement or, more controversially, by giving notice under Article 42 of the Labour Code … Please login to view this …
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Netherlands: Further extension of emergency measure – NOW 3.0
The wage subsidy scheme (NOW 3 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Luxembourg: One-off bonus for apprenticeships
The Chamber of Deputies has been considering measures to encourage the resumption of apprenticeship training, after programmes were suspended during the lockdown … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Italy: Ban on dismissals
The Council of Ministers has come to an agreement concerning a ban on dismissals this Autumn … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Canada: Mandatory registration process introduced for employers of foreign nationals in British Columbia
Employers in British Columbia intending to hire foreign nationals through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, have until 15th December 2020 to register with the provincial government … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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USA: California court upholds employer’s arbitration agreement despite allegedly unconscionable terms
The fact that an employer in California did not draw their employee’s attention to an arbitration clause in a handbook they signed, did not stop the employee being bound by the clause when it is triggered … Please login to …
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Turkey: Constitutional Court rejects appeal against law on ‘multiple bar associations’
The Constitutional Court has refused an Appeal to render invalid a new law allowing for the formation of multiple Bar Associations … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Spain: Statutory compensation for unfair dismissal
Barcelona‘s 26th Court has found that an Argentinian employee hired to work in Spain by an office leasing company, and dismissed for reasons of “restructuring” after 7 months service, should not receive their statutory compensation (under Art 56 of the …
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Irish Republic: Government extends immigration permission for foreign nationals until January 2021
Under the latest temporary visa extension, foreign nationals with an expiry date on visa immigration stamps that fall between 20th September 2020 and 20th January 2021 will be able to remain in Ireland until at least 20th January 2021 … …
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Germany: Works council can meet on site despite Coronavirus
A Labour Court in Berlin has found that an employer may not legally force its general works council to hold meetings on a virtual basis … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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France: 3 months’ leave to care for elderly, ill, or disabled dependants
Employees who care for elderly, ill, or disabled dependants may now (Wf 1 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Finland: Three major unemployment funds to amalgamate
Three huge unemployment funds are set to merge by the beginning of 2021 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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