French law has recently implemented the “right to disconnect” from digital tools, requiring employers to limit employees’ use of digital tools outside of office hours.
The purpose of the new legislation is to protect the employees’ work-life balance and their right to rest periods.
New article L 2242-8 of the French Labour Code provides that
On November 29, 2016 the Dutch Royal Decree (the Decree) which implements the European Intra-Corporate Transfer Directive (2014/66/EU) (the Directive), came into force. The Directive applies to secondments of non-EU citizens satisfying certain conditions whose main place of residence is outside the EU (Expats) to an EU Member State. The Directive
In March 2016 the federal government announced changes to Employment Insurance (EI) rules in Canada. Effective January 1, 2017, the EI waiting period has been reduced from two (2) weeks to one (1) week by way of amendments to s. 208 of the Employment Insurance Act, SC 1996, c 23. The EI
Recently, a private member’s bill which proposes to add “genetic characteristics” to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination under the Ontario Human Rights Code went through its second reading at Queen’s Park and was referred to the committee stage. From an employment law point of view, if this bill is passed into law, the