International workplace dispute practices: key concepts for today’s global...
Increasingly, companies with operations or employees in more than one country are exposed to the risk of court proceedings in a foreign jurisdiction and the unfamiliar practices and procedures arising...
View ArticleA Month in UK Employment Law - January 2013
In This Issue: - 2013 – What's On the Horizon - Changes Confirmed - Changes Expected In 2013 But No Implementation Date...By: Peta-Anne Barrow
View ArticleILG Blog Posting: Social Media Evolves
Social media around the world continues to evolve and so does the International Labour Group at Proskauer. For a second year in a row, Proskauer and its global partners have conducted a survey of...
View ArticleA Month in UK Employment Law - April 2013
It has been a busy period for those involved in drafting employment legislation. In our January 2013 edition, we summarised various expected changes to employment law. Since then, these changes have...
View ArticleTips For Setting Employees’ Salaries And Benefits For MultiNational Companies
Setting the correct salary is never easy and is more an art than a science. In the current economic climate the market fluctuates according to industry, geographical location, budgetary constraints and...
View ArticleUK Employment Law – A Year In Perspective – Changes Past and on the Horizon
2013 has been a significant year for UK employment law. In particular, an abundance of new legislation (both about substantive law and Employment Tribunal procedure) has heralded a number of important...
View ArticleUK Whistleblowing – tips on the rise and the possibility of bounty
Whistleblowing tips reported to the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”), one of the UK bodies with responsibility for regulating the financial services industry, have increased 35 per cent in the...
View ArticleTrade Secrets Directive
The protection afforded to trade secrets is disparate across the EU. In order to protect trade secrets as potential drivers for economic growth and jobs and to create a level-playing field within...
View ArticleA Month in UK Employment Law - April 2016
News & Legislation Update - Gender Pay Gap Reporting Draft Regulations published - The first draft of regulations requiring any employer in the UK with at least 250 employees to publish information...
View ArticleThe UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 and Supply Chain Transparency: The Impact on...
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 is new legislation introduced in the UK with the intention of combatting slavery and human trafficking. Continuing the trend for legislation to have extra-territorial reach,...
View ArticleA Month in UK Employment Law - August 2016
News & Legislation Update - The UK votes to leave the EU - We could not write a roundup of news stories from the UK without referencing the UK's vote to leave the EU. The so-called "Brexit" has...
View ArticleA Month in UK Employment Law - November 2016
Taxation of termination payments draft legislation published - At present, in certain circumstances the first £30,000 of a termination payment is exempt from income tax and national insurance ("NIC")....
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