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Legislative proposals: working hours
The deadline for the European social partners to reach an agreement on proposed changes to EU working time rules has been extended from September to 31 …
Legislative proposals: draft EU redundancy proposals
In mid-August the Telegraph reported the publication of draft proposals by the European Parliament on restructuring and redundancies, including a …
French Parliament adopts new law on sexual harassment
The French Parliament has unanimously passed the law on sexual harassment on 31 July 2012. France had technically been without a law …
AIFMD: Publication by ESMA of Consultation Paper regarding its remuneration guidelines for alternative investment fund managers
The European and Securities Markets Authority ("ESMA") has published a Consultation Paper on its proposed guidelines on the remuneration of alternative …
Mass redundancies in EMEA
Recent times have seen regular announcements of mass redundancies, more often than not from a company with global operations. These companies face the …
France: important Supreme Court decision - the absence of economic grounds will give rise to damages, but the dismissals will still be effective
The French Supreme Court today handed down an important decision for French employers considering collective redundancies. It held that in the …
UK and EU: Statutory holiday - ECJ confirms limit on carry-over; EAT rules no right to pay unless take or request time off
The ECJ has confirmed that Member States can lawfully require carried over statutory holiday to be taken within the following 15 months or else be …
France: New rules on the obligation to pay a bonus to employees on the distribution of increased dividends to shareholders
Further to a law adopted on 13 July 20111 but not yet formally published, certain companies in France are now required to pay to employees a bonus linked …
Global convergence of the regulation of financial sector remuneration
Remuneration excesses in the financial sector are widely blamed (whether rightly or wrongly) for contributing to the 2008 financial crisis. During 2009 …
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