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New legislation will require EU employers to disclose information making it easier to compare salaries and expose gender pay gaps.

Private equity firms make temporary (majority) investments in unlisted (private) companies with the aim of increasing their value. After a short period, usually three to seven years...

Under Hong Kong's court rules, the Labour Tribunal has exclusive jurisdiction over claims for money damages arising from an employment contract or the Employment Ordinance.

The High Court of Madras in Madurai has ruled that an employee cannot be dismissed for sending insulting messages about their employer in a private chat group.

Countries across Europe are experiencing significant heat waves this summer. With the high temperatures set to continue, the hot weather is creating high risk conditions for the health and safety of workers.

Italy has extended the ban on dismissals associated with its coronavirus support scheme for employers.

Following a volcanic eruption in December 2019 that caused 22 deaths, the New Zealand workplace health and safety regulator has charged 13 individuals and organisations with breaches of health and safety law.

How should Polish employers react to coronavirus? What measures can or should they take to reduce infection risk?

On 4 April 2025, Korea's Constitutional Court voted unanimously to uphold the National Assembly's impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol for offences related to his declaration of martial law in December 2024.

From 1 January 2022, new minimum salary thresholds apply for foreign nationals applying for work permits for employment in Turkey.

Free movement of persons between the UK and the EU ended on 31 December 2020.

A Connecticut Executive Order signed on 24 July creates a rebuttable presumption that workers who contracted COVID-19 between 10 March and 20 May 2020 did so at work...

The US Congress has passed a bill that will prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses in relation to sexual harassment or sexual assault claims.

The US is seeing a significant resurgence in organised labour activity and unionisation, with high-profile union elections taking place in ...

In principle, employers' supplements to temporarily unemployed workers are exempt from social security contributions as a supplement to a statutory social security benefit, namely unemployment benefits.

A Belgian court has ruled that a candidate who was discriminated against on the grounds of both her disability and pregnancy during the recruitment process was entitled to two cumulative compensation awards.

The Danish High Court has ruled it was not contrary to the Anti-Discrimination Act for a school to dismiss a physical education teacher who refused to attend work on a Saturday for religious reasons.