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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
[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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