Asia-Pacific Employment Law Guide 2013

The guide includes a detailed summary of the ‘need-to-know’ elements of employment law in 18 jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region, covering Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong SAR, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, People’s Republic of China, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

The guide captures the latest employment law developments across the Asia-Pacific region.

Examples of key developments in this edition of the guide include:

• significant amendments to Vietnam’s Labour Code, including changes to laws governing probationary periods of employees, termination and retrenchment of employment, technology or business secrets, overtime entitlements, and outsourcing arrangements
• the introduction of privacy/data protection legislation in the Philippines, Singapore and Taiwan
• amendments to the PRC’s Labour Contract Law which will have significant impacts on the PRC’s labour dispatch rules including the introduction of an ‘equal pay for equal work’ principle, limitations on the range of positions for which dispatch workers can be engaged, and an increase to the registered capital requirements for labour dispatch service providers
• new legislation on age discrimination and aged employment promotion enacted in Korea and raised retirement ages in various jurisdictions including Japan and Malaysia, and
  paternity leave entitlements introduced or extended in various jurisdictions including Hong Kong SAR, Korea and Singapore.

For more information please contact Magdalena Flynn.