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Canada: USMCA and forced labour
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that has just come into force places an obligation on each party to prohibit the importation of goods that are manufactured by the use of forced, compulsory or child labour … Please login to view …
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Bermuda: Travel Authorisation (Visitor)
All travelers must complete the Travel Authorisation registration process online within 48 hours before their travel … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Belize: Draft Labour Amendment Act
The draft Labour Amendment Act currently before the Senate would allow employers to reduce employee’s salaries as a consequence of emergencies (such as the current pandemic) and also introduce unpaid leave of absence … Please login to view this content …
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Barbados: Immigration and customs form
All visitors to Barbados must complete an online Immigration and Customs Form 72 hours prior to the arrival in the Island … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Middle East: Latent turmoil
Companies operating in the Middle East may wish to keep their thumb over the withdraw button … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Turkey: Occupational health and safety liabilities are postponed
Articles 6 and 7 of the Occupational Health and Safety Law were due to come into force on 1st July 2020 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Global: If, when and by how much?
The billion-dollar question facing all multinationals is how far should they “cut labour to deal with the next 2 to 3 years?” What cannot be relied upon are GDP forecasts, because they are too generalised and say nothing about demand …
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Global: Technology and inequality
Back in 2018, McKinsey reported extensive research indicating that a huge driver towards overall income inequality during the last two decades had been automation … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Global: Keeping cool
When temperatures rise employers often revert to the use of fans, especially in large workspaces such as factories and warehouses … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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United Kingdom: Economy falls into largest recession on record
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined by a total of 22 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Japan: Nojima’s employees can work until they are 80
From next Spring, the Labour Ministry will be pressing employers to design jobs to enable them to be undertaken until the age 70 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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India: ESIC increases monetary grant paid to pregnant women to Rs 7,500
The grant paid to, or for, a pregnant woman covered by the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) is to be increased to Rs7,500 (US$99 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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USA: Second Circuit affirms individual employees are bound by arbitration award prosecuted by their union
The Second Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has reaffirmed that trade unions play a central role in determining terms and conditions – where they are established to operate within collective bargaining agreements (CBA) … Please login to view …
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Gambia: Forced Labour Amendment Bill
The Forced Labour Amendment Bill has now been referred by the National Assembly to a committee stage, before moving on to a third reading … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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United Kingdom: Vicarious liability
The dust has barely settled on the Supreme Court finding that Barclays Bank was not vicariously liable for the assault of 126 job candidates by an independent doctor contracted by them to undertake pre-employment medical examinations … Please login to …
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