The legal background
One of the main concerns of a business is to ensure its employees’ commitment and to encourage employees’ initiatives in order to fuel innovations and business growth. This is one of the reasons which motivates companies to pay their employees variable remuneration based on their performance.
Such remuneration is generally permitted under
The Affordable Care Act (ACA)—or “Obamacare”—has gotten plenty of attention due to technical glitches with the HealthCare.gov website, consumers’ difficulties obtaining (or keeping) insurance through the exchanges, and Health Secretary Sibelius’s recent resignation.
But some notable provisions of the ACA have gone largely unremarked—particularly an amendment to Title 29 of the U.S. Code.
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This post was co-written by Lesley Harrold, Senior Knowledge Lawyer (Pensions), Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (London)
Employment Status
Since its introduction in 2000 the limited liability partnership (“LLP”) has become a popular corporate vehicle for professional services providers in the UK, especially legal and accountancy firms, many of which have converted from traditional partnerships to
Recently, a German Higher Labour Court had to decide on the following question: Where an employee becomes a member of the works council during his/her fixed term, is or can an employment unlimited in time be created automatically at the end of that fixed term?
Generally speaking, an employer can agree a fixed term for
The legal context
French employment law provides for comprehensive and extensive protection of pregnant employees. In particular, the dismissal of employees is absolutely prohibited during maternity leave; and is prohibited during pregnancy or for employees having just returned to work following maternity leave (within four weeks following the end of maternity leave) except in case
In the absence of mandatory paternity leave, balancing work and family life has been a challenge for working parents with a newborn, or for parents-to-be, in Hong Kong.
Currently, only male government employees are entitled to a 5-day paternity leave on full pay. If a male employee working in the private sector wishes to take
Introduction
The legislative proposal known as ‘House for Whistleblowers’ is pending in the Netherlands. The proposal introduces an independent and impartial governmental institution that investigates wrongdoing and assists employees in disclosure proceedings: the House for Whistleblowers. In addition, the proposal introduces several rules to protect whistleblowers. The situation under current Dutch law and under the
In the 1970s, a particular brand of cigarettes geared towards women used the tag line “you’ve have come a long way baby,” and today, the same could be said for the term “whistleblower.”
In the early to mid-20th century, individuals who reported illegal activity were often referred to in pejorative terms such as “rats”
Une politique administrative permettant à un employé non-syndiqué de contester son congédiement en arbitrage peut-elle être considérée comme une procédure de réparation équivalente à celle prévue à l’article 124 de la Loi sur les normes du travail (LNT), alors que l’employé doit payer la moitié des honoraires de l’arbitre?
C’est cette question inédite
Law 1010, 2006 regulates the protection for victims of labor harassment that denounce behaviors or conducts at the work place such us: assault, aggression, humiliation, inconsiderate and offensive treatment or outrage.
The law includes a special protection in favor of the victim that denounces harassing conducts. According to the mentioned protection, the victim of harassment