The MOHRSS issued the Circicular on Proper Guidance and Services for Employment Sharing to guide companies to fully respect wishes of employees and their right to know during employee sharing period and safeguard the healthy development of the employee sharing mode
Nov
27
2020
China: Personal Information Protection Law (Draft) Is Released for Public Comments
The National People’s Congress released the Personal Information Protection Law (Draft) (“Draft”) for public comments. The Draft sets the principles in handling personal information and the obligation on processors of managing the personal information in a compliant manner and ensuring its security
Nov
27
2020
China: The Court in Guangdong held that employee’s voluntary giving up of annual leave in advance is enforceable
The Employee handwrote a letter of commitment to the Employer to voluntarily give up annual leave entitlement and encashment for unused annual leaves in advance, which was held as enforceable by the Court after the Employer terminated the Employee
Dec
01
2020
Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP Webinar – 2020: The Year (and, oh, what a year!) in Review
Date: Tuesday, 1st December 2020
Time: 9:00 am – 10:30 am EST
Duration: 90 Minutes
Perhaps more than any other year in history, 2020 has kept us all on our toes. For employers, this year brought the unprecedented challenge of managing business operations through a global pandemic, along with numerous significant developments in labour, employment, and human rights law. This engaging webinar will provide participants with an overview of key developments that occurred in 2020, and will offer insight into what employers can anticipate in the year ahead.
Topics covered in this webinar will include:
- Employment agreements: can employers effectively limit termination liability by way of contract?
- Incentive compensation: what might employees be entitled to receive post-termination?
- Overtime: are employers liable to pay for unauthorized overtime?
- Drugs and alcohol: how far does an employer’s duty to accommodate extend?
LSO CPD Hours: This program is eligible for up to 1.5 substantive hours.
To register, please visit: https://filion.on.ca/upcoming-seminars/seminars/2020-year-and-oh-what-year-review/
Speakers
- Bonnea Channe
- Janeta Zurakowski
- Tawanda Masimbe
- Clifton Yiu
Date and time:
December 1, 2020 9:00 am
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10:30 am
(EST)
Dec
03
2020
L&E Global Webinar: Data Privacy in Latin America – New Developments and Implications for the Multinational Employer.
Date: Thursday, 3 December 2020
Time: 10:00 AM Mexico – 11:00 AM Colombia – 1:00 PM Argentina & Brazil
Duration: 1 Hour
As Brazil adopts a major new data privacy framework with many echoes of GDPR, it reminds us that data privacy is an important issue in many countries in Latin America. In this webinar we will cover new developments in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico, with focus on some of the most current concerns for multinationals: international data transfer, diversity and inclusion surveys, and special privacy considerations related to COVID-19.
The webinar will have a duration of 1 hour and is free of charge. You can register for the webinar and feel free to forward the invitation to any of your colleagues.
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Speakers
- Pablo Palazzi (Allende & Brea in Argentina)
- Gabriela Lima (TozziniFreire Advogados in Brazil)
- Alejandro Castellanos (López & Asociados in Colombia)
- Jimena Sanchez (De La Vega & Martínez Rojas in México)
- Moderator: John Sander (Jackson Lewis in the USA)
Date and time:
December 3, 2020 1:00 pm
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2:00 pm
(-03)
Oct
29
2020
GDPR & Employee Data Privacy – Recent Developments – L&E Global Webinar
Date: Thursday, 29 October 2020
Time: 12:00 PM CET
Duration: 1 hour
In this L&E Webinar we bring you snapshots of recent developments in the area of GDPR & Employee Data Privacy, seeking to share the latest information on relevant court cases and development of legislation in various jurisdictions, whilst also showing the very broad impact that data protection legislation can have across the globe.
The webinar will have a duration of 1 hour and is free of charge. You can register for the webinar clicking here and feel free to forward the invitation to any of your colleagues.
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Speakers
- Helena Tapp-Barroso (Morais Leitão in Portugal)
- Michael Witteler (Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law in Germany)
- Nicolas Simon (Van Olmen & Wynant in Belgium)
- Paula Nowak (Sobczyk & Partners Law Firm in Poland)
- Moderator: Stefania Stanciu (Magda Volonciu and Associates in Romania)
Date and time:
October 29, 2020 12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
(CET)
Oct
19
2020
China: Court rules on Termination of Employee who Unreasonably refused to Work at New Location
The court held that, if the employer has adopted appropriate measures to reduce the adverse impact caused by a relocation of the workplace, and the relocation did not amount to a fundamental barrier for employees to perform their work, then the employees shall continue to work at the new location
Sep
26
2020
China: Employee’s Taking of Sick Leave without Providing Sick Leave Certificate from Hospital is Found as Serious Violation of Labor Discipline
The Shanghai People’s High Court ruled that employee’s failure to provide the employer with sick leave certificates from hospital during medical treatment period consititued as serious violation of labor discipline and it was legal for the employer to terminate the employment relationship on such basis.
Sep
25
2020
China: CSRC Releases Regulatory Guideline for Stock Incentive and Employee Stock Ownership Plans
The China Securities Regulatory Commission releases the trial guideline with standards which aims to regulate the implementation of stock incentive and employee stock ownership plans by unlisted public companies in China.
Sep
22
2020
L&E Global Webinar: Restructuring in Asia-Pacific in the age of COVID-19
Experienced practitioners from Australia, China, India, Japan, and Singapore will share their perspectives on key issues facing multinational employers required to make organizational changes in light of COVID-19:
- COVID-related laws, regulations and programs which affect or alter the normal restructuring legal scheme
- Limitations or special provisions affecting economic dismissals
- Wage subsidies, salary reduction measures, work-sharing or other programs to avoid job loss
- Actual COVID restructuring experiences country-by-country
- Major restructuring events — what sectors, how large, what types of employees
- Major challenges legally as well as in public relations, governmental/political affairs, and labor relations
- Lessons learned and best practices
We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:
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Speakers
- Thomas Choo (Clyde & Co Clasis in Singapore)
- Michael Harmers (Harmers Workplace Lawyers in Australia)
- Sowmya Kumar (Induslaw in India)
- Tatsuo Yamashima (Atsumi & Sakai in Japan)
- Carol Zhu (Zhong Lun in China)
- Moderator: John Sander (Jackson Lewis in USA)
Date and time:
September 22, 2020 12:00 am
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9:00 am
(UTC)