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Apr
06
2020

COVID-19 in France – What do employers need to know (and what should they be doing)? – Flichy Grangé Avocats Webinar

Date: Monday, Apr 6, 2020 • 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CET

We would like to invite you to the Flichy Grangé Avocats webinar: COVID-19 in France – What do employers need to know (and what should they be doing)?

We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

This webinar will last 1 hour and is free of charge. You can register for the webinar via the specific registration link and feel free to forward the invitation to any of your colleagues.

Topics: Key information to help you make effective decisions in these challenging times overshadowed by the Covid-19 Coronavirus.

The speakers will answer among others the following questions:

  • Business continuation: Get an insight on what employers should do to adequately ensure their employees continue working
    • safety rules, health and security matters,
    • staff representation
    • incentives
  • Your business had to stop? the various measures the French government took to help
    • Leave of absence
    • Short-time work
    • Business-oriented measures (loans, deferred contributions, etc.)

Speakers:
• Joël Grangé (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)
• Florence Aubonnet (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)
• Florence Bacquet (Partner of Flichy Grangé Avocats)

Please follow Flichy Grangé Avocats on LinkedIn to stay on top of labour and employment law developments.

Date and time:
April 6, 2020 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm (CET)

Apr
07
2020

Advocates for Employers of Canada COVID-19 – Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti Webinar

Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 – 2:00 pm Eastern | 3:00 pm Atlantic | 12:00 pm Mountain | 11:00 am Pacific | 1:00 pm Central

Filion Wakely Thorup Angeletti LLP is a proud member of Advocates for Employers of Canada (AEC). AEC is an alliance of management-side labour and employment law practitioners from across Canada. We advocate for clients in every sector of the economy, from large multi-national corporations, mid-size national and local organizations, to entrepreneurs, not-for-profits, and we advise at all levels of government.

As COVID-19 continues to spread, employers are faced with an increasing number of challenges which range from maintaining workplace health and safety, to ensuring ongoing business viability. Join us for an informative online session with AEC lawyers from each jurisdiction across the country.

In this session we will review:

  • Government and employment standards initiatives in each Canadian jurisdiction
  • Tips and best practices for maintaining workplace health and safety – social distancing initiatives, temperature checks, schedule changes, etc.
  • Use of salary reductions, leaves, temporary layoffs, and wage subsidies to deal with closures and revenue challenges
  • Available alternatives – Work Share Program, Supplemental Employment Benefit Program, etc.

Date and time:
April 7, 2020 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (EST)

Mar
31
2020

‘Polish Anti-crisis Shield’: from the employers’ perspective – Sobczyk & Partners Law Firm Webinar

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.

In relation to the negative economic impact of the announcement of the epidemic state in Poland and the restrictions applied, a package of new legal regulations for entrepreneurs, the so-called ‘Anti-crisis Shield’, will be introduced.

The solutions included in the package concern, among others:
• economic stoppages (i.e. periods when work is not expected from employees),
• short-time work solutions (i.e. extraordinary measures allowing for the reduction of working hours),
• co-financing of employee remunerations by the State.

We would like to discuss new regulations during an online meeting, taking into account the employer’s perspective. We invite you to participate in a free online meeting which will be conducted in English.

If you want to participate, please register via rejestracja@sobczyk.com.pl

Speakers
  • Alina Giżejowska
  • Janusz Zagrobelny

Date and time:
March 31, 2020 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm (CET)

Mar
23
2020

Coronavirus: Your Essential Workforce Update – L&E Global Webinar

Date: Monday, 23 March 2020 – 5 p.m Central European Time / noon Eastern Time

Coronavirus: your essential workforce update. Key information to help you make effective decisions in these challenging times.

Since our last webinar on this topic at the beginning of March, the situation especially in Europe has taken a dramatic turn. Questions that were imminent at the beginning of March are no longer relevant in practice. Employers are now being faced with the need to make difficult business decisions at extremely short notice. We would like to give you some guidance for key European jurisdictions.

We invite you to download the “Stay Up To Date: Resources from your presenters regarding COVID-19” or view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

The webinar featured attorneys from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands with deep knowledge and experience regarding the consequences of the Coronavirus in the workforce.

The speakers answered among others the following questions:

Insights
  • What about employees who must stay at home to take care of their children given the school’s closure?
  • Can employees be asked to take their leaves and their dates of leaves changed without notice? What about the use of time saving accounts?
  • Short time work: how does it work? Conditions, timeframe and formalities, duration and indemnification
  • How to manage works councils statutory meetings and other duties?
  • Are redundancies prohibited?
Speakers
  • Verena Braeckeler-Kogel (Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law in Germany)
  • Marcello Buzzini (LABLAW in Italy)
  • Alina Gizejowska (Sobczyk & Partners Law Firm in Poland)
  • Karol Hillebrandt (Palthe Oberman in the Netherlands)
  • Frédéric-Guillaume Laprévote (Flichy Grangé in France)
  • Ivan Suárez (Suárez de Vivero in Spain)

Date and time:
March 23, 2020 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (CET)

Mar
02
2020

How the Coronavirus impacts the workplace? – L&E Global Webinar

Date: Monday, 2 March 2020
• 9 a.m CET / 5 p.m Japan Standard Time / 4 p.m China Time
• 6 p.m CET / 9 a.m Pacific Standard Time / noon Eastern Time

Employers are confronted with numerous legal issues as they address Coronavirus travel restrictions and consider health and safety measures to protect their workforce. In this webinar we will address legal risks and best practices relating to the Coronavirus, from the perspectives of employment law, health and safety, data privacy, and discrimination/human rights in the US, Europe and China.

We invite you to view the final presentation of this webinar by clicking on the icon below:

Speakers
  • Verena Braeckeler-Kogel (Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law in Germany)
  • Matt Harrop (Clyde & Co in United Kingdom)
  • Frédéric-Guillaume Laprévote (Flichy Grangé in France)
  • Katharine Weber (Jackson Lewis in USA)
  • Ying Zhao (Zhong Lun in China)

Date and time:
March 2, 2020 9:00 am - 8:00 pm (CET)

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
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.

Aug
24
2018

New Zealand: Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Bill passed to enhance legal protections in the workplace for people affected by domestic violence

The Domestic Violence – Victims’ Protection Bill (“the Bill”) allows employees who are affected by domestic violence to take paid domestic violence leave and to request a short-term variation of their working arrangements (up to two months). The Bill also prohibits adverse treatment of employees affected by domestic violence

Jul
27
2018

New Zealand: Unpaid pre-work meetings conducted by an employer in New Zealand have been held to be ‘work’ for which employees are required to be paid

A recent New Zealand Employment Court decision has held that where an employer conducted unpaid meetings with its sales employees before their rostered hours of work/store opening hours, that it was required to pay the employees to attend these meetings. This was because the pre-work meetings were considered to be ‘work’ and the employees were entitled to be paid their hourly rate for that work. A further argument about the ability of the employer to offset the cost through its payment of commission and incentive payments was rejected and the Court held that those payments could not cover payment for this time

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