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In today's labor market, classifying workers as employees or independent contractors is crucial, especially in diverse legal landscapes like the U.S., the UK, Spain, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, Italy and France. ...more
The year 2024 brought about notable changes in employment law in Hong Kong. This article provides a brief overview of the key developments that occurred over the past year and a look forward at the expected changes as we...more
Recent amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) establishing a new "whole-of-relationship test" increase the likelihood that Australian businesses will face claims of "sham contracting" by misclassifying employees as...more
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The Manitoba Court of Appeal (the “Court”) in Pokornik v. SkipTheDishes Restaurant Services Inc., 2024 MBCA 3, recently upheld a lower court decision dismissing a large online meal delivery service’s motion to stay a class...more
Mexico’s Congress has continued to make progress on several legislative items of importance to employers and employees alike, including, most especially, a proposed reduction in the maximum number of workweek hours....more
The B.C. government has announced its intention to table legislation that will impose minimum employment standards for app-based gig workers, including ride-hailing drivers and food delivery workers, who are typically engaged...more
The Labour Tribunal of Hong Kong has provided welcome guidance on determining the employment status of platform workers, in a case brought by sham-self-employed couriers....more
The Dutch Supreme Court has just ruled that Deliveroo meal deliverers are not self-employed, but rather “regular” employees. With this decision the Supreme Court confirms the earlier judgments of the Cantonal Court and the...more
A recent decision issued in France indicates that whether a gig worker is an independent contractor or employee is a fact-specific inquiry. In this case decided last month, delivery platform Stuart, a subsidiary of the group...more
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The rise of "gig" workers (i.e. independent workers paid by task or project) has, in recent years, drawn attention to the issue of the classification of workers as "employees", "independent contractors", or "dependent...more
On April 11, 2022, the Ontario government’s Bill 88, the Working for Workers Act, 2022 (“Bill 88”), received royal assent. Earlier this year, we wrote about Bill 88 on this blog, when it was still at second reading. In...more
On 9 February 2022, the Australian High Court heard two appeals together—Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union & Anor v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2022] HCA 1 ("Personnel") and ZG Operations Australia...more
The High Court of the Canton of Vaude recently decided that the couriers of an online food ordering and delivery service are in fact employees. Very interestingly, the Court concluded that the digital platform leases them out...more
Britain’s Supreme Court dealt Uber a blow this morning when it ruled that “drivers must be classified as workers entitled to a minimum wage and vacation time.” The decision—a disaster for Uber in a dispute that reaches back...more
Chile - In response to the sanitary and economic crisis produced by the Covid-19 Pandemic, the Chilean Government has introduced several measures to protect the employment and the employees’ salaries. The following is...more
The latest amendments to the Law on Personal Income Tax in December 2019 introduced an obligation to apply and implement the so-called “independence test” for entrepreneurs....more
Introduced as part of the reforms under the Good Work Plan, amendments to Section 1 of the UK’s Employment Rights Act 1996 will impose new obligations on employers in the provision of written statements of particulars of...more
Welcome to our inaugural edition of the Republic of Labour Law, a monthly newsletter in which we distill the most important Irish legal and HR updates from the last month in 500 words or less. ...more
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With some Canada Labour Code (CLC) amendments in Bill C-44, the Budget Implementation Act, 2017, No. 1 (Bill 44) having come into force in 2017 and earlier in 2019, some additional amendments in Bill C-44 came into force as...more
Littler’s International Employment Law Practice Group includes experienced practitioners who help employers tackle local and multinational legal issues across borders. Here we shine a light on pivotal legal developments in...more
A massive overhaul of the Canada Labour Code (CLC) is pending, with significant amendments coming into force on September 1, 2019, just prior to the Canadian federal election in October....more
Parliament has approved proposed amendments to the Employment Act (EA), which took effect on April 1, 2019. The EA extends its coverage to managers and executives earning more than S$4,500 per month, thus expanding its...more