Key employment law developments expected in 2017

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

What rights and protections are there for part-time workers?

By Stefanie Radina on November 7, 2016 Posted in Contracts, Europe, Germany

This post was also contributed by Dimitri Schaff, Trainee, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP (Munich). Currently, about one quarter of all employment relationships in Germany are based on part-time models, the proportion of part-time to full-time employees having increased by about 12 per cent since 2001. Furthermore, as a result of the implementation of the EU Part-time Workers … Continue reading

Protecting the vulnerable: Rights and protections for part-time employees

By Karen Ainslie (ZA) on November 1, 2016 Posted in South Africa

This article was written by Jonathan Arumugam , a Candidate Attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa Managing a workplace and employees is a lot different nowadays than it used to be two decades ago. Today, many employers struggle to recruit and retain employees by offering a strict nine to five work day. Your typical staff complement … Continue reading