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Ce qui attend les employeurs assujettis à la réglementation fédérale en matière de salaire minimum, de congé lié à la COVID-19 et de travailleurs à la demande

Photo of Stéphane EricksonBy Stéphane Erickson on Posted in Canada, Coronavirus
Il y a bon nombre de sujets chauds et importants dont devraient tenir compte les employeurs assujettis à la réglementation fédérale du secteur privé. Parmi ceux-ci, notons l’augmentation du salaire minimum, les changements devant être apportés au congé lié à la COVID-19 et les nouvelles analyses concernant les travailleurs à la demande et la façon … Continue reading

Up and coming for federally regulated employers: on minimum wage, COVID-19 leave & gig workers

Photo of Stéphane EricksonBy Stéphane Erickson on Posted in Canada, Coronavirus
On the radar for federally regulated employers in the private sector are a number of hot and important topics. These include an increase to the minimum wage, in-the-works changes to the COVID-19-related leave, and new discussions about gig workers and how they fit – or may be able fit –  in the framework of the … Continue reading

Hausse du salaire minimum au Québec

Photo of Jonathan DeschampsBy Jonathan Deschamps on Posted in Canada, Québec
À compter du 1er mai 2020, le salaire minimum au Québec sera haussé de 0,60 $ l’heure, pour atteindre 13,10 $ l’heure, soit une augmentation de 4,8 % par rapport au salaire minimum en vigueur (12,50 $ l’heure)[i]. Le Québec emboîte ainsi le pas à l’Alberta, à l’Ontario et à la Colombie-Britannique en haussant le … Continue reading

A Framework for Modern Employment – House of commons report.

Photo of Amanda Sanders (UK)By Amanda Sanders (UK) on Posted in UK
The Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committees have published a joint report on “A framework for modern employment” (the Report) which considers how the employment framework should be amended to reflect the modern workplace. The Report acknowledges that “the expansion of self-employment and business models built around flexible work on digital … Continue reading

Minimum wage increase in Québec: some employers are flexing their muscles

Photo of Caroline JodoinBy Caroline Jodoin and Global Workplace Insider Team on Posted in Canada, Québec
On May 1, 2017, the minimum wage in Québec was raised from $10.75/hr to $11.25/hr. Although not as substantial as the increases that have recently been implemented in other North American jurisdictions, this raise is still significant when compared with the average annual increase implemented in the province for the past 10 years. Some employers … Continue reading

Key employment law developments expected during 2017 in Québec

Global Workplace InsiderBy Global Workplace Insider Team on Posted in Canada, Québec
In the course of the year, it will be interesting to see how the Government of Québec will deal with pay equity matters. In an important decision issued last October, the Québec Court of Appeal declared that several sections of the Pay Equity Act were unconstitutional. More specifically, it struck down the ’09 provisions dealing … Continue reading

Key employment law developments expected in 2017

Photo of Jannis BreitschwerdtBy Jannis Breitschwerdt on Posted in Contracts, General, Germany
A significant amount of new employment legislation is expected or is already in place for 2017. Key changes will be in the hiring of temporary workers through an agency (referred to as “personnel leasing” in Germany), employee protection and equal treatment. Reform of laws regarding personnel leasing One of the main developments in 2017 will … Continue reading

Texas federal judge puts the brakes on the DOL’s new overtime regulations

Photo of Mario Barrera (US)Photo of Kimberly Cheeseman (US)Photo of Matt Heller (US)By Mario Barrera (US), Kimberly Cheeseman (US) and Matt Heller (US) on Posted in General, United States
Employers who had been searching for a way to best  implement the Department of Labor’s new overtime regulations (the “Final Rule”), which are set to go into effect on December 1, 2016, received an early holiday gift on Tuesday, and from one of President Obama’s appointed jurists, no less.  On November 22nd, Judge Amos Mazzant … Continue reading

Overtime overhaul – small businesses want more time to prepare

Photo of Norlynn Price (US)By Norlynn Price (US) on Posted in United States
With just about 90 days to go before the U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule dramatically updating overtime regulations is scheduled to go into effect, small business owners have petitioned the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division seeking more time to prepare for and implement changes to the way they operate their businesses so that they … Continue reading

What rights and protections are there for workers on zero hours contracts in Germany?

Photo of Jannis BreitschwerdtBy Jannis Breitschwerdt on Posted in Contracts, Europe, Germany
Unlike in the U.K. and other EU member states, zero hours contracts are not (yet) common practice in Germany. To date, other arrangements aimed at achieving “flexible working” such as fixed-term or part-time contracts, secondment of personnel and – more recently – contracts to provide services have been more widespread. However, as German case law … Continue reading

Fair P(l)ay in Germany? – What measures are in place (or proposed) to address gender pay inequality in the workplace

Global Workplace InsiderBy on Posted in Discrimination and harassment, Europe, Germany
This post was also contributed by Ebru Tirel, Trainee, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (Munich). In Germany, “Equal Pay Day” is widely observed. It marks the day from which women are deemed to start to earn wages in that calendar year, where men have started to earn wages since January 1st. This year, Equal Pay Day was … Continue reading

Bit-wise operations: paying employees in Bitcoin

Photo of John MastorasBy John Mastoras on Posted in Canada
Cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin are very much “in vogue”. “Currencies” like bitcoin are maintained by computer-based algorithms, rather than the government or a central bank. They are so popular  that it’s been reported on in the past that employees have been rejecting Canadian dollar salaries for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. That said, there are not … Continue reading

Changes to UK employment law – October 2015

Photo of Amanda Sanders (UK)By Amanda Sanders (UK) on Posted in Discrimination and harassment, Europe, UK
With effect from 1 October 2015 certain provisions affecting UK employment law under the Deregulation Act 2015, come into force. The changes are: The removal of the power of employment tribunals to make wider recommendations in successful discrimination cases. With effect from 1 October tribunals can only make recommendations relating to the individual complainant. The … Continue reading

Checks and balances at work: Fifth Circuit reins in U.S. Department of Labor in Fair Labor Standards Act case

Photo of Norlynn Price (US)By Norlynn Price (US) on Posted in United States
On July 2, 2015 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) liable for an employer’s attorneys’ fees resulting from a bungled and abusive investigation of alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The facts of the case – Gate Guard Services, L.P. v. Thomas … Continue reading

What right do employees have to a minimum wage in the province of Quebec?

Global Workplace InsiderBy Global Workplace Insider Team on Posted in Canada, North America, Québec
The majority of workers in the province of Quebec are entitled to receive the minimum wage established by the provincial government. The right to the minimum wage is set out in the Act respecting labour standards, which applies to most provincially-regulated employers and employees. Certain categories of workers have clearly been exempted from the minimum … Continue reading
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