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Indonesia: Non-resident directors and work permits
An interesting question in Indonesia is whether non-resident directors and commissioners need to obtain work permits. Our team takes a look. Do …
Thailand: Outsourced workers' protection
Sub-contracting arrangements have often been favoured by business operators in Thailand to address fluctuating workforce needs and reduce labour costs. …
UK: Tribunal confirms that UK regulations can be read as requiring commission to be reflected in statutory holiday pay
Readers will be familiar with recent EU and UK caselaw ruling that the UK Working Time Regulations fail to properly implement EU law, which …
UK: Review of tribunal fees; prohibition on enforced subject access requests for criminal records; FCA/PRA whistleblowing proposals
The Business Secretary is reported to have launched a review of employment tribunal fees in light of inaction from the Ministry of Justice (see …
UK: State and diplomatic immunity - Court of Appeal rules on employment claims
The Court of Appeal has held that foreign staff employed at embassies in the UK could bring race discrimination and holiday pay claims; it considered …
UK: Termination - employers can rely on historic repudiatory breach to dismiss summarily on discovery of the breach
Employers may be able to dismiss summarily and defeat a wrongful dismissal claim if they discover a repudiatory breach by the employee, even where the …
UK: Disability discrimination - automatic non-payment of bonus to employees with absence warning was unlawful
Employers should review bonus or other schemes designed to reward good attendance levels, to assess whether any discriminatory affect against disabled …
UK: Unfair dismissal - in depth investigation of employee's explanations for misconduct will not always be necessary
The Court of Appeal has ruled that the requirement that an employer carry out a reasonable investigation into allegations of misconduct (in order for any …
France: Alerting employees to heightened risk of 'fake chairperson' frauds
"Fake Chairman" frauds follow roughly the same scenario: the author of the fraud impersonates the Chairman or another senior employee or director of the …
Asia: Fixed term contracts of employment
We bring you a comparison of the rules governing the use of fixed-term contracts in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the People’s Republic of China, the …
India: Patents belong to employee if inventions not created as part of their employment
The Bombay High Court has recently found that patents filed by employees can belong to the employee if the employee was not been engaged or instructed to …
Hong Kong: Cross-border data transfers
On 29 December 2014, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) published a Guidance Note entitled "Guidance on Personal Data …
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