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Malaysia: Punitive damages in unfair dismissal cases
What happens when an employer dismisses an employee on the grounds of redundancy, but is later unable to prove that there was a genuine redundancy in …
Australia: One size plaster cast does not fit all - Navigating the pitfalls of dismissing an injured or incapacitated worker
In brief Many employers will, at some point, be faced with the difficult task of terminating the employment of an employee who has been absent from …
UK: Executive Remuneration Working Group Final Report
The Executive Remuneration Working Group has now published its Final Report, building on its Interim Report which we covered in our bulletin here. The …
Australia: The right to vote - casual academics and enterprise bargaining
Two recent decisions have provided some important guidance on the obligation for employers to include, or not include, casual employees in enterprise …
Australia: When must an employer’s premises be available for union meetings?
The Fair Work Commission (FWC) has held that union officials have no right to enter employers premises to hold discussions with employees before their …
UK: Remuneration policies revisited
The 2014 AGM season saw the first remuneration policy approvals under the Directors' Remuneration Report ("DRR") regime which came into force in …
UK: Measures to protect confidential information from ex-employees
A High Court has ruled that, in the right circumstances, an employer may be able to obtain an order for the destruction of confidential information taken …
UK: Religious discrimination claims concerning dismissal for refusing to leave marriage and headscarf bans
Employers may be liable for indirect discrimination where particular treatment can be viewed as a consistent practice, even if it is applied only …
UK: First instance rulings that statutory holiday pay must reflect voluntary overtime
A couple of first instance employment tribunal judgments have ruled that the calculation of statutory holiday pay (for the 4 weeks' EU-derived holiday) …
UK: Acas Code only applies to dismissals with element of employee culpability
Employers who unreasonably fail to follow the Acas Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures, where it applies to a …
UK: Disability discrimination cases on discipline for misconduct and expectation to work long hours
Employers should take extra care when considering disciplining a disabled employee for misconduct, to determine if there is a link between the conduct …
UK: Reasonable expectation of privacy may not always apply to private communications
Employers may be able to rely on an employee's private phone communications to justify discipline or dismissal in some cases, as employees will not …
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