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The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with nine other departments, recently issued the Interim Measures for Administration of Special Accounts for Migrant Workers’ Wages in the Construction Sector (“Interim Measures“). The construction contractor’s establishment of such special accounts under the Interim Measures is to separate wage payments to migrant workers from other […]

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (“MOHRSS”) together with seven other departments, recently issued the Guiding Opinions on Protecting the Labour Rights and Interests of Workers under New Forms of Employment (“Guiding Opinions”). The Guiding Opinions stress to protect the labour rights and interests of workers under new forms of employment in the […]

The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court held that the employee shall accept employer’s reasonable adjustment of management methods due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the employee’s delayed responses, without justification during work from home, amount to a legitimate cause for termination of employment. Mr. Yang (“employee”) served as an algorithm engineer at a technology […]

With the end of the legal recommendation to telework in sight, the question of health safety in the workplace gains further importance. There is indeed no legal basis (yet) for the obligation of an employee to get vaccinated, and it is complicated or even impossible for an employer to know exactly who is and who […]

Following the recent developments to address sexual harassment in the workplace (as outlined in our April 2021 Client Alert), on 24 June 2021, the Federal Government introduced the Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Bill 2021 (Bill). The purpose of the Bill is to improve and streamline the legislative frameworks that protect workers from sex […]

L&E Global congratulates our alliance members in France, Germany, Italy and Russia on their recent commendations in the field of labour and employment law in select publications of Best Lawyers 2022. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. A listing in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both […]

L&E Global congratulates all of our alliance members who were recognised for excellence in the field of employment law by Who’s Who Legal in 2021. WWL Thought Leaders: Labour & Employment 2021 WWL Thought Leaders: Labour & Employment aims to shine a light on what puts these practitioners at the apogee of the global labour and […]

Many companies that have been working remotely during COVID-19 expect to continue to do so, at least to some extent after the pandemic. At first, it might seem that manufacturing would not be an industry where remote models would be prevalent. But, due to a changing occupational mix, only two-fifths of employees are involved in actually “making […]

Globalization, compliance, and the growth in outsourcing have created a myriad of cross-border data transfer scenarios. These scenarios include marketing to and servicing customers, assessing global compliance with diversity and including goals, and outsourcing back-office business functions. However, the emergence of far reaching data privacy regulation, such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), has erected […]

A federal contractor that could not secure extended financing and suddenly laid off its workers when it could not make payroll was not a covered “employer” under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held. Schmidt v. FCI Enters. LLC, Nos. 19-02384, 20-01076 (June 24, […]