Retrait préventif : la COVID-19 ne constitue pas un contaminant au sens de la...
Dans une affaire récente – Piché et Entreprises Y. Bouchard & Fils inc. – le Tribunal administratif du Travail (Tribunal) a rejeté la demande de retrait préventif d’un travailleur en vertu de...
View ArticleHigh Court clarifies definition of casual employee
The High Court has upheld the employer’s appeal in the Rossato casual employment test case, and in the process has clarified the definition of casual employment (Workpac Pty Ltd v Rossato [2021] HCA...
View ArticleNew infringement notices for offences against Victorian Occupational Health...
WorkSafe inspectors will now be able to issue infringement notices to companies and individuals for certain occupational health and safety offences. The Occupational Health and Safety Amendment...
View ArticleNew Immigration Routes in New Innovation Strategy
On 22 July, the UK Government published a UK Innovation Strategy which sets out the government’s vision to make the UK a global hub for innovation by 2035. As part of this strategy, the UK intends to...
View ArticleCOVID-19 Safety Plans vs. Communicable Disease Plans: Have you Caught the...
On July 1, 2021, British Columbia enthusiastically took the next step in its four-step COVID-19 Restart Plan. The transition to Step 3 brought several changes, including the transition for employers to...
View ArticleUK Pensions: SIPs for small schemes: law-making through the back door?
Last week’s interim consultation response from the Pensions Regulator addressed a common concern about the “Funding and Investment” section of the draft single Code of Practice: it confirmed that it...
View ArticleSpeculation in Human Rights Claims – A Recent Decision
One of the challenging circumstances often facing an employer is having to make a tough decision (e.g. termination) with respect to an employee who is known to have a protected characteristic under...
View ArticleUK Pensions: Pension scams and amber flags: is the future orange?
In recent years, many defined benefit (DB) pension scheme members have taken advantage of the ability to transfer their DB pension pots out of their schemes, to be able to access their money in...
View ArticleSingapore to enshrine workplace anti-discrimination laws
On 29 August 2021, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that the Government will enact new laws to formally enshrine the Tripartite Guidelines on Fair Employment Practices (“TAFEP...
View ArticleEssential guidance for employers implementing COVID-19 measures at the workplace
As Singapore moves towards living with COVID-19 as an endemic disease, the Government has issued guidance for employers on the COVID-19 measures to be implemented at the workplace. We will discuss the...
View ArticleEmployee data compliance: Data minimization and deletion obligation
To avoid fines, the lawful processing of employee data must respect the principle regarding data retention. Employers are obliged to erase data that is no longer required, in particular regarding the...
View ArticleThe Employment proposals in the Queen’s Speech: Absence of the Employment Bill
On 10 May at the State Opening of Parliament, the legislative intention of the Government for the next parliamentary session was set out in the Queen’s Speech. Despite the speech containing proposals...
View ArticleEssential guidance for employers on COVID-19 measures at the workplace from...
As Singapore takes its next step towards living with COVID-19, the Ministry of Manpower (“MOM”), the Singapore National Employers Federation (SNEF) and the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC)...
View ArticleLa Cour de cassation valide le barème Macron : fin de la fronde ?
Pour mémoire, avant l’entrée en vigueur du « barème Macron », en cas de licenciement sans cause réelle et sérieuse, il appartenait au juge de fixer l’indemnisation visant à réparer le préjudice du...
View ArticleGrève et télétravail : une interprétation large et libérale de la notion d’«...
Le 23 mars dernier, dans la décision Syndicat des travailleuses et travailleurs de la Coop Lanaudière CSN c. Coop Novago, 2022 QCTAT 1324 (« Coop Novago »), le Tribunal administratif du travail (le «...
View ArticleThe French Supreme Court validates the “Macron scale”: end of the Resistance?
By way of background, before the entry into force of the “Macron scale”, in the case of unfair dismissal, it was for the judge in each case to set the amount of compensation for the loss suffered by...
View ArticleUK Pensions: Use of reasonable [en]force[ment] – unnerving for those on the...
Speaking to banking colleagues recently about what the Pensions Regulator’s stronger powers mean for them reminded me just how much turns on the Regulator’s view of what is reasonable. There has been a...
View ArticleGermany: Stricter COVID-19-rules expired
The German government has announced that, in light of falling infection rates, the “SARS-CoV-2 Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance” will not be extended (press release dated May 24, 2022; see also...
View ArticleGlobal Employment Law- Work From Anywhere: Make it work better – Transforming...
This is the 15th paper in our Transforming Workplace series. In this paper we examine how ‘work from anywhere’ can be made to work better. Work From Anywhere: Make it work better -Transforming...
View ArticleGlobal Employment Law – Work from Anywhere: The end of the office? –...
This is the 16th paper in our Transforming Workplace series. In our previous paper, we discussed how to make ‘work from anywhere’ work better. In this paper we now examine whether the day of the...
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