GETTING TO KNOW US
June 18th, 2015 by Sharon Hamilton
PLI Conference: Global Mobility and Cross Border Employment Agreements
June 17th, 2015 by Sharon Hamilton
PLI Conference New York, United States of America June 2015 Global Mobility and Cross Border Employment Agreements
Termination of Employment Contracts in Portugal – The New Employment Reform
May 29th, 2014 by Sharon Hamilton
As part of our international series of alerts by guest lawyers, Cláudia Póvoa of Neville de Rougemont & Associados, looks at terminating employment contracts in Portugal. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS IN PORTUGAL – THE NEW EMPLOYMENT REFORM Portuguese Employment Law is influenced directly by the Portuguese Constitution and the principle of Employment Security which determines that every dismissal needs […]
Unfair dismissal protections in Argentina
March 21st, 2014 by Sharon Hamilton
As part of our international series of alerts by guest lawyers, Mercedes Balado Bevilacqua ofMBB Balado Bevilacqua Abogados, looks at Argentina’s unfair dismissal protections. I. Introduction Argentina is a protective country in terms of labour law, guaranteeing minimum rights to employees which cannot be waived by agreement of the parties. Local labour regulations establish a set of principles […]
Australia’s unfair dismissal system – unplugged
January 22nd, 2014 by Sharon Hamilton
Joydeep Hor, Managing Principal and Founder of specialist workplace law firm People + Culture Strategies explains the two-tiered unfair dismissal regime in Australia. Australia has had a long history of employment regulation. In fact, labor and employment regulation was one of the first subjects of legislation when Australia first became a nation in its own […]
Termination of Employees in Denmark
November 7th, 2013 by Sharon Hamilton
In the eighth of our international monthly series of articles by guest contributors, Rikke Line Lyngaae Rasmussen and Anders Etgen Reitz of IUNO look at Termination of Employees in Denmark. International Series #8 – Termination of Employees in Denmark Danish rules concerning termination of employees are much less complicated than the rules of other jurisdictions. Under Danish law employment relationships may […]
Which country’s laws apply to an international employment contract where the parties have not chosen it themselves?
November 5th, 2013 by Sharon Hamilton
Which country’s laws apply to an international employment contract where the parties have not chosen it themselves? In the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) case of Schlecker v Boedeker C-64/12, the CJEC was asked to determine whether, in the absence of a governing law clause in an employment contract, a national court was […]