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Russia: Recent changes to the law governing foreigners' employment
Following Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation and various policy developments, the law governing the engagement of foreign employees in …
Asia: Checking whether employees have the right to work in a jurisdiction
What obligation does an employer have to check the right of an employee to work in jurisdiction? We compare the rules in PRC, Japan & Singapore here.
UK: Territorial scope of employment law rights: employees based abroad struggle to show sufficient connection to GB
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that the right to claim unfair dismissal only applies to employees working or based abroad if they can show …
USA: Recent developments in US legislation on modern slavery
The recent introduction of the Federal Business Supply Chain Transparency on Trafficking and Slavery Bill (H.R. 4842) on 11 June 2014 (the “Bill”) is the …
USA: US Federal Appeals Court holds that the Dodd-Frank Act's whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions do not apply extraterritorially
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Liu Meng-Lin v. Siemens AG, 13-4385-cv (2d Cir. N.Y. Aug. 14, 2014) upheld a lower-court's decision to …
Indonesia: Restrictions on expat employment (upstream oil and gas)
Indonesia’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources issues a new Regulation limiting the roles available to foreign employees in upstream oil and …
UK: Discrimination - jurisdiction where British national works overseas
The EAT has ruled for a second time that the principle that UK laws which are derived from EU law (such as discrimination law) must be construed as …
Indonesia: Further restriction on employment of expatriates in the oil and gas industry
On 24 October 2013, the Indonesian Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) issued ESDM Decree No. 31/2013 on Expatriate Utilization and …
Singapore: Breakfast briefing - Launch of multi-jurisdictional business transfers - employee issues guide
Date: Tuesday 25 February 2014 Time: 9.00am - 10.00am (Breakfast served from 8.30am) Venue: 50 Raffles Place, #24-01 Singapore Land Tower, Singapore, …
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