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Jun
12
2019

Retail webinar: On-the-clock, All Over The World

Date: Wednesday 12 June 5 p.m. Central European Time (11 a.m. New York time)

Identifying key wage and hour risks confronting international retailers and strategies for compliance

Insights
  • The webinar will feature a panel discussion among attorneys from United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and France with deep experience representing employers confronted with class action wage and hour cases and the myriad of issues arising from the unique scheduling demands of the retail industry as they collide with the growing push to ensure through local laws that employees receive sufficient time off and compensation.
Speakers
  • Jonathan Dye (Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti in Canada)
  • Eric R. Magnus (Jackson Lewis in USA)
  • Olivier Kress (Flichy Grangé in France)
  • James Major (Clyde & Co in United Kingdom)
  • Moderator: Rich Landau (Jackson Lewis in USA)

Date and time:
June 12, 2019 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (CET)

Apr
27
2019

Belgium: Social Partners Have (Partially) Saved The Collective Bargaining Process

The national social partners have concluded an agreement on some important future measures of employment and social security law. The outcome of the negotiations was highly uncertain as the socialist trade union did not agree with a maximum raise of the wages of 1,1% in the midst of difficult discussions on the raise of the minimum wage

Apr
03
2019

PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO COMPLEX CHALLENGES

Even in the era of far-reaching international trade agreements and regional economic and political partnerships, the majority of laws and regulations governing the workplace are still determined by the individual countries where employees work.

Spanning 6 continents, L&E Global’s member firms are ideally situated to provide clients with pragmatic, commercial advice necessary to achieve their objectives. Our members work closely with corporate, legal, human resources departments and corporate executives across a variety of sectors and industries to address the strategic and tactical issues that arise in the workplace.

Discover the most important labour and employment rules, regulations and best practices specific to each jurisdiction, conveniently together in one place.

Mar
27
2019

Belgium: The Mobility Budget

In order to diminish the number of company cars and the resulting congestion and exhaust emissions, the Belgian government introduced the cash-for-car system in 2018. On March 1, 2019 a second option entered into force to promote alternative ways of mobility: the mobility budget

Dec
13
2018

Belgium: Risk on increase of dismissal costs after 1 January 2019

The Act of 26 December 2013 laid down a deadline of 1 January 2019 in the Employment Contracts Act for the sectors to introduce new outplacement measures in collective bargaining agreements. As no sector has undertaken any action in this regard, the National Labour Council is trying to find a solution, as the absence of such provisions are punished by additional contributions for employers and employees in case of dismissal.

Nov
28
2018

Belgium: Schooling clauses allowed for bottleneck jobs

Before, schooling clauses were only allowed if the annual wage of the employee reached a certain threshold. Legislation has now been introduced with a possibility to provide a schooling clause in employment contracts for lower paid bottleneck jobs.

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