All blog posts
Showing 156 out of 185 results
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: Statutory holiday - workers have right to carry over where prevented from taking holiday for reasons not limited to sickness
Workers who have been unable or unwilling to take their statutory holiday entitlement for reasons beyond their control, including but not limited to …
UK: Government acts to limit backdated holiday pay claims with effect from 1 July 2015
The government has laid regulations before Parliament to impose a two-year limitation on unlawful deductions from wages claims. The regulations come into …
UK: Statutory holiday pay - no appeal over ruling on retrospective claims
In last month's e-bulletin we reported the landmark EAT judgment in Bear Scotland v Fulton that pay for the 4 weeks' EU statutory holiday …
Asia Pacific: Paying out of accrued annual leave
Where there has been a transfer of employment, we compare the rules in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in relation to what …
UK: Statutory holiday pay - EAT confirms pay for non-guaranteed overtime must be taken into account
"Non-guaranteed" compulsory overtime pay ("non-guaranteed" in that the employer is not obliged to offer overtime, but it is compulsory for the worker to …
UK: New resources - Acas guidance on bereavement and dress codes
Following the Government's decision that it was not "feasible" to introduce a new statutory right to bereavement leave, Acas has …
UK: Statutory holiday - payment in lieu on employee death
The ECJ has ruled that, when a worker dies after a period of sickness preventing them taking their accrued holiday, payment in lieu of the accrued …
UK: Employers should review holiday pay following ECJ ruling
Employers should review their approach to calculating holiday pay for employees and workers who have fixed normal hours but receive variable …
France: Employee's right to donate part of their paid holiday and RTT entitlement to a colleague with a sick child
Following the law of 9 May 2014, an employee now has the right (subject to the agreement of his employer – but in practice it may be difficult, …
France: Flexible working time arrangements - for businesses applying the SYNTEC collective bargaining agreement
Employer and trade union organisations in industries applying the SYNTEC collective bargaining agreement (including in particular a number of consultancy …
Australia: Employment Insight - Managing ill, injured and chronically absent employees – a robust approach
In brief Managing ill, injured and chronically absent employees is one of the greatest challenges for employers. In every case, human resources …
Showing 156 out of 185 results
View more