The Employment Rights Bill has undergone significant amendments in March 2025 as it progresses through Parliament. Included in the amended bill are changes addressing redundancy and the controversial practice of “fire and...more
3/26/2025
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There can be a number of circumstances in which a company may want to engage someone in a country where the company currently has no employees. This could be a desire to expand the business into new markets, recruit a...more
Jordan recently took a step forward in the fight against discrimination in the workplace. A study previously showed that men earn 41 percent more than women in the private sector and 28 percent more in the public sector. In...more
As of January 1, 2020, Bermuda employees are entitled to increased paid and unpaid maternity leave, and, for the first time, paid and unpaid paternity leave. Bermuda’s Parliament included the provisions in the Employment...more
Bahrain’s Resolution No. 84 of 2019 was issued by the Minister of Labor and Social Development prohibiting the employment of pregnant women in a number of hazardous environments....more
The revised Gender Equality Act will go into effect in Switzerland on July 1, 2020. It requires employers with 100 or more employees to conduct an internal wage equality analysis, to have the results of the analysis reviewed...more
The Colombian government has issued a circular aimed at clarifying the circumstances in which employers may be authorized to discharge employees with medical conditions....more
Penalty clauses in fixed-term contracts are common in Turkey and apply if either party to such a contract ends the contract before the expiration of the fixed term. Turkey’s Supreme Court has held that penalty clauses...more
The new year brought a number of changes to Greek employment laws, including the introduction of a new national general collective bargaining agreement and changes to legislation concerning overtime compensation at industrial...more
“Bahrainisation,” which is used to describe requirements for employing Bahranian nationals, is now being applied to the healthcare sector. On March 5, 2019, the government passed Law No. (1) of 2019, which amended Article 14...more
The new labor law of Montenegro went into effect on January 7, 2020 and has made a number of significant changes including:
Employers with more than 10 employees are required to set policies on the organization and...more
Following the enactment of the Anti-Harassment Law in 2018, Resolution No. (20912) was recently passed, which sets out procedures and requirements for employers to safeguard the privacy, dignity, and personal freedom of...more
In response to the socioeconomic environment in Argentina, on December 13, 2019, President Alberto Fernandez issued a 180-day urgent decree declaring a public emergency in relation to employment, which is due to last 180...more
Employment law as it relates to women continued to be an area of focus for the government in 2019 with the issuance of Ministerial Resolution No. (39860), which sets out a number of rules....more
6/8/2020
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Equal Pay ,
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Saudi Arabia ,
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Wage and Hour
The implementation of wage protections in Bahrain has been the subject of much discussion in recent years, so it was not surprising that Resolution No. 68 of 2019 on the Wage Protection System was passed in 2019. Resolution...more
Taiwan’s new Labour Incident Act (LIA) came into effect on 1 January 2020, representing a major overhaul of how labour disputes are handled. The LIA aims to strengthen protection for employees by simplifying access to the...more
In April 2019, President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law Republic Act No. 11313 (known as the “Safe Spaces Act”) with the aim of ensuring the equality, security, and safety of every individual, in both private and public...more
Effective 1 January 2020, Sweden increased the maximum fines that can be imposed on companies from 10 million Krona (SEK) to 500 million SEK. The measure aims to increase the personal and physical safety of workers....more
Welcome to the latest issue of the Ogletree Deakins International Employment Update - a newsletter aimed at human resources professionals and in-house employment counsel operating on an international basis. Please scroll...more
11/13/2019
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ,
Blue Pencil Contract Modification ,
Collective Bargaining ,
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Dispute Resolution ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Harassment ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Internships ,
Labor Code ,
Labor Disputes ,
Lactation Accommodation ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Parental Leave ,
Part-Time Employees ,
Pensions ,
Severance Agreements ,
Social Security Benefits ,
Students ,
Wage and Hour ,
Whistleblower Protection Policies
On November 29, 2017 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that misclassified self-employed contractors who are really workers or employees could claim back holiday pay all the way to 1996—the year that the European...more