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Brazil: Additional job fee to cover hygiene costs during the state of emergency
The Labour Court in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais has ordered the transport company Platform 99 to pay its self-employed drivers an additional 10% of their job fee … Please login to view this content or become a member …
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Turkey: Turkish lira nears all-time low as foreign exchange reserves fall
Like Lebanon, the central bank has depleted foreign currency reserves and sought to prevent companies undertaking short-term currency swops ahead of an almost certain collapse of the lira … Please login to view this content or become a member by …
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South Africa: Job losses pile up
According to Transunion – the country’s leading credit reporting agency – there has been a sharp rise not only in the number of people losing their jobs (16%), but also those that have experienced working time reductions (37%), with millennials …
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Namibia: SSC to pay workers for loss of income
Eligible employers may apply for a wage subsidy on the condition that they have not made employees redundant (retrenched) during the months of April, May, and June 2020, and have not reduced their staff’s salaries by more than 50% … …
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Mozambique: Minimum wage negotiations suspended sine die
The Mozambican government recently announced the suspension of negotiations to increase the statutory minimum wage for this year, due to the impact of COVID-19 on the country’s economy … Please login to view this content or become a member by …
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Global: Commuting claims
We have seen from the German case reported in this Newswire that employers are now coming dangerously close to becoming responsible for commuting costs … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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South Korea: Government to expand the employment safety net
A review is underway by the National Assembly into the Employment Insurance Act, the Job Seeker Promotion Act, and Life Security Support Act … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Singapore: MOM raised EP qualifying salary
The minimum qualifying gross monthly salary to obtain a new Employment Pass (“EP”) has now increased from S$3,600 (US$2,548) to S$3,900 (US$2,760) … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Philippines: Face masks, improvised face cover now required in Luzon
In the central part of Luzon, the country’s largest and most populous island, all employees must wear a face mask and employers must perform a temperature check and complete a health symptoms form each day … Please login to view …
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Indonesia: 1.2 million workers furloughed, laid off as COVID-19 crushes economy
According the Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah, during April 2020, 1 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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India: Suspension of labour laws in UP, MP, Gujarat
Because of the health crisis, the state governments of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, and Gujarat have suspended the majority of their labour laws, whilst Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, and Rajasthan have increased maximum daily working time to 12 hours … …
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Bangladesh: Confusion about the wage subsidy scheme
Although the government has introduced a wage subsidy scheme to allow companies in export-orientated industries to furlough staff on 60% of their normal wage, there remains much confusion about how such temporary layoffs should be handled … Please login to …
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Mexico: Labour courts case backlog
Because labour courts were suspended in February 2020, there is going to be a huge backlog when they reopen this Summer … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Chile: Strict limit on fees and allowances to Company Directors of PLCs
The Senate has approved a law temporarily banning companies in receipt of state assistance from paying shareholders any dividends … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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British Overseas Territories: The forgotten victim of Brexit
The forgotten victim of Brexit are British territories, such as Anguilla and British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the West Indies, where nationals currently hold EU passports and rely heavily on trade, funding and other connections through Britain’s EU membership … …
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