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[IWS] Baker & McKenzie: THE GLOBAL EMPLOYER: Bringing Light to Employment Law Changes and New Developments [January 2011]

IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor----------------------
Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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Baker & McKenzie

 

The Global Employer: Bringing Light to Employment Law Changes and New Developments

January 2011

http://www.bakermckenzie.com/files/Publication/c4fd9235-b74d-4a9b-bae7-51c2f9212258/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/c2018e52-07d0-47e0-9ed8-520ebffb3e74/bk_employment_globalemployer_jan11.pdf

[full-text, 36 pages]

 

Author/s: Global Employment Practice Group

 

Baker & McKenzie's Global Employment Practice Group is pleased to present its 46th issue of The Global Employer entitled "Bringing Light to Employment Law Changes and New Developments." This issue contains a collection of articles on legal developments from 11 jurisdictions that examine changes to labour laws, employment practices, and benefits issues. The global economy is still affecting change on the employment landscape with new legislation being passed in many jurisdictions. The challenge for the multinational employer is to stay informed of these changes and the effects they will have on the workplace and their employees

 

CONTENTS

Argentina

Recent ruling on penalties due to unlawful intermediation of employment

 

Austria

Closing the gap

 

Brazil

Split of salary and contribution of employers to severance fund deposits (FGTS)

Requirements and limitations provided under Brazilian laws concerning employee

interviews within internal investigations

 

France

Recent employment law developments

 

Hong Kong

Special administrative region’s first minimum wage announced

 

Italy

The new reform of Italian labour disputes: an attempt to alleviate the workload of Labor Courts

 

Malaysia

The Malaysian Whistleblower Protection Act of 2010

 

Mexico

New Employees Food Assistance Law

 

Spain

Major Spanish employment and labor law reform package confirmed and passed into definitive legislation

 

Sweden

Update on Swedish Legislation

 

United States

The changing labor landscape: what every employer should know about the NLRB’s August decisions

 

From the Bookshelf

Baker Showcase

Locations Worldwide



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Institute for Workplace Studies 
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