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France: The Loi Travail - Briefing 4
This briefing summarises the Macron reforms in relation to the introduction of a new codified right to make collective terminations by agreement (outside …
France: The Loi Travail - Briefing 3
This briefing summarises the Macron reforms in relation to the simplification of redundancy processes: limiting the economic difficulties test to the …
France: The Loi Travail - Introduction
One of Emmanuel Macron's key campaign promises was the reform of laws relating to employees partly, in order to help French companies respond in a more …
UK: Employees overseas - territorial scope of collective redundancy obligations
The EAT has confirmed that the obligation to consult about collective redundancies applies where the employees assigned to an establishment have a …
UK: Employees overseas - need for caution in using standard employment contracts
The fact that an employee working overseas is on an employment contract governed by English law is a relevant factor in determining whether he can bring …
China: Guidance on what a "major change in objective circumstances" means
A recent judicial interpretation (Interpretation) issued jointly by the Supreme People's Court and the Labour Dispute Arbitration Committee in Beijing …
UK: Redundancy - EAT rules on selecting for a reduced number of roles
The EAT's decision in Green v London Borough of Barking & Dagenham highlights the need for employers to ensure they adopt a fair process on a …
UK: Redundancy - EAT rules on approach to suitable alternatives
Employers considering withholding a statutory redundancy payment, on the ground that they have offered a suitable alternative job which has been refused, …
Spain: Increase in the basis used to calculate the severance payment for dismissal
On 3 May 2017, the Spanish Supreme Court (the “Supreme Court”) issued a judgment in which it declared that employer’s contributions to (i) medical …
Hong Kong: The labour policy promises of the new Chief Executive
On 26 March 2017, Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor was elected as the city's next (and first female) chief executive, after winning 777 votes from a …
UK: Relocation on redundancy - mobility clause dismissal will be unfair if clause is too wide or operated unreasonably
The recent case of Kellogg Brown & Root v Fitton and Ewer serves as a reminder to employers relocating jobs on a redundancy: if they choose to …
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