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Belgium: Legal protection for reporting money laundering infringements
Those reporting money laundering infringements to the Belgian Financial Intelligence Processing Unit are now entitled to legal protection against victimization and dismissal … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Revision of the Written Statement Directive (1991)
The European Commission is drafting a revision of the Written Statement Directive (1991) which obliges employers to provide in writing certain terms and conditions to new employees … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining …
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United Kingdom: Parker Review’s final report on ethnicity
The Parker Review’s final report on ethnicity on company boards is unlikely to seriously affect their racial composition … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Global: 2017 Global Peace index
Terror attacks have so far affected 77 countries across this year, whilst Honduras and El Salvador continue to have the highest incidence of homicides in the world … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining …
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Yemen: Blockade
The blockade against supplies coming into the country is leading to a huge crisis with over 2 million people (including 50,000 children) estimated by the UK Foreign Office as facing death by starvation in the next few months … Please …
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Saudi Arabia: Tensions across the middle east
Tensions are escalating across the middle east, centred on relations between Saudi-Arabia and Iran … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Belgium: Night work
Belgium has long applied a general prohibition on night work in retailing and commerce … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Amendment to the Posting of Workers Directive
The EU Council of Ministers has now approved an amendment to the Posting of Workers Directive that would require employers in the host country to pay local pay rates in full, thus making it uneconomic to employ otherwise less costly …
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Georgia: New state constitution
Giorgi Margvelashvili, the President of Georgia has reluctantly signed the new state constitution … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Singapore: Return To Work (RTW) programme
Under the recently launched Return To Work (RTW) programme, grants now exist to support companies that participate in the programme to help injured workers recover and get back to work … Please login to view this content or become a …
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New Zealand: Work-related, serious non-fatal injuries
Latest provisional 2016 data shows that the rate of work-related, serious non-fatal injuries fell to 14 … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Qatar: 36 bilateral agreements signed to provide legal protection to workers
The government of Qatar has now signed 36 bilateral agreements with countries from which it draws most of its two- million-strong foreign workforce – undertaking to provide legal protection to workers … Please login to view this content or become …
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Argentina: Taxes cut
Following success at the mid-term elections the government has launched outline plans to cut taxes over the next five years … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Malaysia: Paid maternity leave
Prime Minister Najib Razak is planning to give all women in the private sector the right to 90 days paid maternity leave – to bring them into line with the public sector (where total leave for all births is capped …
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Bulgaria: Medical help
If an expatriate or foreign business visitor becomes unwell in Bulgaria and requires an English speaking doctor or has to be admitted to hospital then they will find this guidance very useful … Please login to view this content or …
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