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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: EQUITY IN THE WORKPLACE

Volume XVII,, No. 1

http://bakerxchange.com/ve/6531kk6162s75Qq864/VT=0/stype=dload/OID=81221203320457

[full-text, 40 pages]

 

Baker & McKenzie's Global Employment Practice Group is presents its 49th issue of The Global Employer entitled "Equity in the Workplace."  This issue contains a collection of articles from 13 jurisdictions which examine various issues regarding equality in the workplace. Countries continue to pass new legislation that aims to create an equal environment for all employees regardless of age, gender, or race.

 

 

CONTENTS

Argentina

Equal pay for work of equal value, under similar circumstances

Austria

Equal pay for equal work? Closing the gap in Austria

Belgium

Termination law creates equal treatment amongst workers

Canada

Ontario introduces new gender wage gap program

Pay equity in Quebec

Colombia

Equal job, equal pay principle

Germany

Equal pay for agency workers

Japan

The right to equal pay in Japan

Mexico

Economic unit and equal payment

Netherlands

New vacation legislation eliminates the difference in accrual rates

Russia

Pay equity rules in Russia

United Kingdom

Gender equality in the boardroom: a Pan-European overview

United States

California requires supply chain disclosures

EU diversity initiatives put companies on a tightrope

Vietnam

Minimum wage harmonization: trending towards a law

 

 

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