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Brazil: Increased risks for business travellers and employees
Companies establishing operations in Brazil – or sending staff to the country on business trips this Summer – should take into account the special risks which exist there for personnel … Please login to view this content or become a …
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USA: The long, hard road to pay parity
The Governor of the State of Maryland has just signed into law one of the toughest and far reaching US equal pay measures … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Europe’s immobile workforce
One of the biggest frustrations for HR in an international company is persuading employees to be geographically mobile … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Italy: Sickdays, sick system
The Italian government is planning to introduce a number of measures to combat absenteeism, particularly in the public sector … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Taiwan: The working hour reduction that never happened
Average gross monthly earnings in Taiwan rose over the year to March 2016 by 2% from TWD 43,016 ($US 1,320) to TWD43,880 ($US1,347) … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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European Union: Call for extended parental leave
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted in favour of a resolution calling on EU member states to ensure that all working parents are guaranteed four months unpaid parental leave and to encourage more male workers to take the …
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Luxembourg: Wage indexation in next year
The Grand Duchy’s statistical agency STATEC has issued its price inflation forecasts for the coming year … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Global: World Outlook 2016/17
The International Labour Organisation’s has just published its 2016 World Employment Social Outlook … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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Germany: VW Pay Deal
The automaker Volkswagen AG has concluded a 20-month pay agreement with the trade union IG Metall covering 120,000 employees in its German operations (Volkswagen Financial Services … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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United Kingdom: Workplace violence remains serious threat
Although the incidence of fatal workplace accidents has halved in the UK over the last twenty years the previous downward trend in non-fatal accidents has come to an end in recent years … Please login to view this content or …
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USA: Civil rights law
The US Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against the Governor of North Carolina and other officials because the State’s discriminatory new HB2 antigay legislation violates federal civil rights law … Please login to view this content or become a …
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USA: Reasonable accommodation
: The California Court of Appeal has recently established an important precedent by allowing a new interpretation of the term ‘reasonable accommodation’ under the disability provisions of the state’s Fair Employment and Housing Act … Please login to view this …
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UAE: Ramadan (2016)
With the start of Ramadan (which begins on June 6th) quickly approaching, employers should be preparing for the reduction in working time required under UAE labour law … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining …
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Turkey: Flexible Working
The Turkish parliament has given approval to a draft law that will allow a flexible working relationship to be established through registered temporary work agencies … Please login to view this content or become a member by joining now …
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South Africa: Temporary agency workers
A legal question that often raises its head in different jurisdictions is ‘at what point will a temporary agency worker be regarded as an employee of the end user?’ In a recently-reported South African case the employees concerned claimed under …
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