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Asia: Mutual separations and exiting employees
HR practitioners and in-house counsel have often had to think about mutual separations as a way to 'exit' employees. This month, we take a look at some …
Malaysia: Punitive damages in unfair dismissal cases
What happens when an employer dismisses an employee on the grounds of redundancy, but is later unable to prove that there was a genuine redundancy in …
UK: What are my rights if my job is relocated due to Brexit?
The following article by Andrew Taggart was first published in Financial News, 22nd April 2016. If your employer decides to relocate your job and you do …
UK: Voluntary redundancy - excluding employee eligible for early retirement is prima facie age discrimination
The EAT has confirmed that excluding an employee who is eligible for early retirement from voluntary redundancy, due to the higher severance costs, is …
UK: Collective redundancy consultation - resignation in response to pay cut counts towards consultation threshold
In applying the threshold for collective redundancy consultation obligations of 20 proposed dismissals, all dismissals which are for a reason unrelated …
UK: ECJ follows Advocate General's opinion and reinstates previous law on collective redundancy threshold
The European Court of Justice has given its judgment in the case of USDAW v Woolworths on the trigger for collective redundancy consultation obligations. …
UK: Appeal news - collective redundancies, tribunal fees
The ECJ has confirmed that it will deliver its ruling on the UK trigger for collective redundancy consultation in the Woolworths case on 30 April 2015 …
PRC: Draft Rules issued on employee redundancy
Employee redundancies have become more common in recent times. In response, the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has issued the …
UK: Pro-employer ECJ Advocate General opinion on test for collective redundancies consultation
A year ago the Court of Appeal referred to the European Court of Justice the case of USDAW v Woolworths on the trigger for collective redundancy …
Australia: Clarification of requirements for ‘genuine redundancy’
The Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission has ruled on the requirements for a ‘genuine redundancy’ and the modern award consultation obligation to give …
Asia: Comparing employment laws across the region
We asked our lawyers to tell us three need-to-know employment law facts in Singapore, Hong Kong, PRC, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Japan. The …
UK: Remuneration - deduction of training costs from final salary payment on termination could lead to breach of national minimum wage regulations
Deductions from a final salary payment to repay training costs can only be ignored when calculating whether the employee has received the national …
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