On 25 March 2014, the Attorney-General, Senator the Hon. George Brandis QC, released for public comment an exposure draft of a Bill that is to amend Part IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth.) (RD Act).
Part IIA, which is entitled ‘Prohibition of offensive behaviour based on racial hatred’, includes within it
Republic of Lebanon liable for damages following a general protections (adverse action) claim by an Australian based consular employee.
The Republic of Lebanon has been ordered to pay a former Australian consular employee in excess of $330,000 in damages for future economic loss suffered by the former employee as a result of breaches of Australian
If you are an employer currently offering your Dutch employees participation in a pension arrangement, then the below is a “must read”. In the Netherlands a legislative proposal is pending which may have an impact on the pension arrangements within your company.
As of 1 January 2015 the following changes may come into force:
For
French case law generally does not allow dismissals of employees based on facts related to the employees’ private life. In this respect, the suspension (or the withdrawal) of an employee’s driving license caused by the employee’s behavior outside his/her working hours does not necessarily justify the termination of his/her employment contract.
However, when the holding
Employers are always looking for ways to boost attendance at work. One way that employers try to accomplish this goal is by offering incentive programs, such as bonuses, for meeting attendance thresholds.
What happens if an employee falls short of the attendance threshold because he or she is on some form of medical leave, such
The new anti-bullying jurisdiction under the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act), which commenced on 1 January 2014, introduces an ‘individual right of recourse’ to the Fair Work Commission (FWC), that is designed to be both ‘speedy’ and ‘inexpensive’.
The emphasis on providing a ‘speedy’ individual right was reflected in the
This post was contributed by Philippe Levac (Norton Rose Fulbright’s Montréal office)
Norton Rose Fulbright’s Employment and Labour Team in Montréal raised a preliminary objection against an arbitrator’s jurisdiction on the basis of orders rendered pursuant to the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA“), which was upheld and led to the dismissal of the
In Germany, employees have the statutory right to ask their employers to pay part of their future earnings – up to 4 % of the relevant contribution assessment ceiling for the statutory pension fund – into an occupational pension scheme through the conversion of earnings into pension contributions. The German Federal Labour Court recently ruled
This article was written by partner Vandana Rupani and senior associate Hani Ghattas of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP.
A UAE employer hiring Emirati employees in the private sector should be aware that if the employment relationship with an Emirati employee does not progress as expected, it cannot simply terminate the employment of an Emirati employee
Having developed over decades, the social insurance scheme in China has been gradually unified nationwide and is now primarily regulated by the PRC Social Insurance Law (SIL), which came into effect in 2011. Prior to the SIL, the social insurance scheme in China was regulated by various administrative regulations.
The SIL consolidated the