The European Court of Human Rights has recently ruled in the cases of four individuals who were unsuccessful in their claims in the UK courts for religious discrimination at work.
All four applicants, who are practising Christians, brought claims relying on Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination)
In Germany, a number of employees’ rights and employers’ obligations depend on specific thresholds regarding the number of employees assigned to a business unit or a company. The German Federal Labour Court recently decided two cases with regard to agency workers and their effect on dismissal protection and on the number of works council members
If you – being 50 years old – read a job advertisement addressed to people aged between 25 and 35 years, would you apply for the job?
The petitioner in a recently decided case inGermanydid, but wasn’t invited for a job interview. Instead, the company invited another applicant for an interview and in the end
If you are facing a substantial rate of absent employees, you may be tempted to dissuade them from taking leaves, and especially sickness / work related accident leaves, which are frequent inFranceand quite unpredictable for companies.
Some employers had the idea to organise systematic meetings with employees returning from leave, to educate them on the
Eco Recyclers Pty Ltd (Eco), a contractor that performs demolition work in the construction industry, has become drawn into a larger dispute between the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) and the Victorian Government, in relation to the Government’s “Implementation Guidelines to the Victorian Code of Practice for the Building
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The UK Government Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, announced in the press in March that gagging orders which prevent whistleblowers in the National Health Service (NHS) from raising concerns about patient safety are to be banned. Employees who leave their NHS posts will be given a new legal right
Many would have thought that the fact that a disadvantaged employee (either handicapped or suffering from a debilitating medical condition) has committed a serious breach, thus incurring in a cause of termination, would allow the employer to validly and unilaterally terminate her or his employment contract without prior authorization from the labor authority and without
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The High Court has overturned a decision by the Minister of Labour to extend a collective agreement in the textile industry to non-parties to the bargaining council.
The agreement set out the minimum wages that employers who were parties to the agreement had to pay their employees. The
Yes, Outsourcing is prohibited under Venezuelan New Labour Law as long as the contracting of third parties are made to simulate or defraud with the purpose of avoiding the application of the labor legislation.
1. Definition of Outsourcing under the New Labour Law.
Outsourcing is understood to be the simulation or fraud committed by employers
The Federal Government has introduced a proposed Bill to amend the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) to allow employees who believe they have been subjected to workplace bullying to have their grievance heard in the Fair Work Commission (the FWC), a move that may potentially lead to an influx of