Under Hungarian law, employers have a duty to ensure that employees can work safely and without risk to their health. One way of ensuring this was through mandatory occupational health assessments. Before 1 September this year,…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
In a recent decision, the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) indicated that it is unlikely that valid consent to the processing of biometric data can be given in the context of an employment…
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/ International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
The opportunity for employees to work from a location of their choice has become the new normal. Remote working offers numerous advantages for employees, including increased flexibility, a better work-life balance, and increased…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
For most employees, it is relatively easy to send information from the employer’s network to a private digital environment, such as personal e-mail or cloud storage…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
New workplace technologies are influencing the ways in which dismissals are communicated. But under what conditions is it legitimate to use these ‘alternative’ communication methods?…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The European Court of Justice recently found that a collective agreement provision on overtime pay potentially violated the prohibition of discrimination against part-time employees as well as the prohibition of discrimination…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law
Under Hungarian law, employers have a duty to ensure that employees can work safely and without risk to their health. One way of ensuring this was through mandatory occupational health assessments…
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/ Health, Labor & Employment Law
Many countries have special personal income tax regimes for individuals performing work on their territory and we will be covering some of these regimes in a series of articles. In this article we discuss Return Tax Relief…
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/ International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
The Hong Kong Government has announced its plans to expand the existing Sexual Conviction Record Check (‘SCRC’) scheme.
The purpose of the expansion is to enhance the protection of children and mentally incapacitated…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The new legal duty in the UK to prevent sexual harassment is ‘designed to transform workplace cultures’, according to guidance published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
An investigation requested by the Norwegian government has proposed changes in how holiday pay is accrued and paid out in Norway…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (‘MPFA’) has commenced a major overhaul of the Hong Kong pensions system with the launch of the eMPF Platform in June 2024…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
Several significant changes to government policies relating to temporary foreign workers have recently gone into effect in Canada…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland has published a public consultation on the framework for the introduction of safe leave for employees experiencing domestic abuse…
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/ Family Law, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
On 26 August the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA) fined Uber EUR 290 million for a breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Following a number of complaints from French Uber drivers, the DPA found that Uber…
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/ Consumer Protection, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology