The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced it is implementing an electronic registration process in the next H-1B visa lottery. Employers seeking to file fiscal year 2021 H-1B cap-subject petitions must first electronically register and pay a $10 fee for each electronic registration they submit to USCIS
Dec
19
2019
USA: A Renewed Attempt in Congress to Eliminate Non-Compete Agreements
A bipartisan bill aimed at generally banning non-compete agreements across the country has been introduced in the Senate. The Workforce Mobility Act of 2019, which closely tracks the Democrat-led Workforce Mobility Act of 2018, is a stark contrast to the limited and more measured approaches that have predominated at the state level
Dec
19
2019
USA: Class Action Trends Report Fall 2019
This quarterly report takes a look back at the most significant class action developments over the last year, including litigation trends, court decisions, and legislative and regulatory changes that are certain to invite class litigation
Dec
19
2019
UK: Data protection – Employee data breach
The Supreme Court heard the appeal in Various claimants v Wm Morrisons Supermarket in November 2019, as to whether the supermarket is vicariously liable for a data breach by their employee. The judgment will be delivered in 2020
Dec
19
2019
UK: Sexual Harassment – New EHRC guidance
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) new guidance sets out do’s and don’ts on tackling sexual harassment and discrimination
Dec
19
2019
UK: Legal advice privilege
The Court of Appeal considered whether legal advice privilege applied to a leaked email concerning a redundancy exercise
Dec
19
2019
UK: Indirect discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief
The Court of Appeal dismissed a claim that an employee’s belief in the sanctity of copyright was a protected philosophical belief
Dec
19
2019
UK: Vicarious liability – third party harassment
An employer is only liable for the harassment of an employee by a third party where the employer’s action or inaction is related to the relevant protected characteristic e.g. race or sex
Dec
19
2019
UK: Misconduct dismissals
The EAT has confirmed that changes to an investigator’s report into alleged misconduct made on the advice of an in-house lawyer, did not make the employee’s subsequent dismissal unfair
Dec
19
2019
UAE: Summary of recent legislative amendments
Recently, there have been several legislative developments related to labour and employment law matters, chief among them a new law comprised of numerous amendments to the Federal laws regulating labour relations, which entered into force on 29 September 2019 and a resolution that expands the definition of discrimination to include doctrine and gender as means of combating discrimination and hatred