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On 4 March 2020, the European Commission adopted its eagerly awaited European Climate Law proposal which will enshrine into EU legislation the European Union’s commitment to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (the “2050 Ob...

The Walloon government has decided, as from March 18, 2020, to temporarily suspend for 30 days all deadlines and appeal filing periods laid down in Walloon legislation. With regard to Walloon environmental law and permitting procedures, this results...

Eversheds Sutherland has again been listed as a top law firm in this year's edition of the Swiss business magazine Bilanz / Le Temps in the following areas: Banking and Capital markets Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) Liability law International...

Welcome to this special COVID-19 edition of our quarterly Global Employment and Labor Law Update which you can find HERE Please do not hesitate to contact us if you wish to find out more....

As part of the State opening of Parliament, the Queen today set out the government’s plans for legislation over the course of the new parliamentary session.  Disappointingly, however, the Queen’s Speech contained...

In Brief: According to the 2020 budget draft law n°7500, published on 14 October 2019 (the “Bill”), the validity of advance tax agreements (“ATAs”) granted prior to 1 January 2015 should now be limited to five years. Sinc...

This edition of our quarterly labour law update contains the following content: News number of days lost to strikes in 2007, the highest in five years trade union membership falls in 2007 <...

This edition of our quarterly labour law update contains the following content: News ACAS consults over amended time–off Code of Practice Redundancy and key labour law pointers The outlook for industrial unrest Last minute t...

Article 49 of the EC Treaty prohibits restrictions on the freedom to provide services within the EU; Article 43 similarly prohibits restrictions on the freedom to establish businesses. Together with a prohibition on the grounds of nationality, these...

This edition of our quarterly labour law update contains the following content: News UK workers continue to protest over the use of foreign labour Possible increase in statutory redundancy pay Employees t...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Continuing decline in trade union membership: the latest government statistics New Regulations to be introduced to prevent blacklisting ...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News A record rise in tribunal protective award claims Gordon Brown makes agency...

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Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News RMT to challenge trade union laws  Decline in trade union membership continues  Government review of employment law to include European work...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Agency regulations under review by coalition The threat of strikes and the law Unite leadership race Recent UK labour case law Worrall and othe...

The law relating to industrial action is complicated and many aspects are unclear, mainly because of conflicting court decisions, complex statutory rules or because of the absence of judicial interpretation. In particular, uncertainty exists over th...

The law relating to industrial action is complicated and many aspects are unclear, mainly because of conflicting court decisions, complex statutory rules or because of the absence of judicial interpretation. In particular, uncertainty exists over th...

The annual report published by BIS on trade union membership has just been published and contains new statistics for 2010. As in previous years, it tracks an ongoing decline in trade union membership levels and, similarly, a fall in the number of em...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News • Public sector strikes: beyond the media outcry • Government announces review of 90 day collective consultation period • E...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Acas sees rising demand for conciliation in disputes CAC reports drop in statutory recognition applications New ways of trade union organising Order ...

Welcome to our quarterly labour law update. This edition contains the following content: News Strike days surged in 2011: a one-off or a new trend? Woolworths claim puts the spotlight on "establishment" for redundancy purposes Calls for collect...

Welcome to our June UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade union membership rises to 6.5 million reversing recent falling trends PCS and TSSA unions move closer towards mergers with Unite  ...

Welcome to our UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news • Government independent review of industrial disputes• An update on labour law and the European Court of Human RightsUK labour case l...

Welcome to our December UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news Working time reform more likely Politics, next year’s General Election and labour law – an unhealthy mix? UK labour cas...

Welcome to our March UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news BIS pushes ahead with new trade union membership assurance scheme. Unite contemplates acting outside the law. Bookings being taken for Ever...

Welcome to our September UK labour law update. This edition contains the following content:UK labour law news• The Trade Union Bill• Trade union about-turn on the EU referendum• Industrial action: recent ...

Welcome to our December UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade Union Act implementation: new regulations and Codes of Practice The gig economy: ‘self-employed’ seek trade un...

Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Trade Union Act changes to industrial action law: now in force Public sector facility time reporting in force from 1 April 2017 Pub...

Court of Appeal upholds single collective bargaining unit for only 1.2% of employees in an otherwise non-unionised employer In a significant development for employers, particularly those without recognised trade unions and those with dispersed busin...

Welcome to our December UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: UK labour law news Responding to walkouts by gig workers and contractors Central Arbitration Committee annual report records drop in recognition ap...

Welcome to our March UK labour law quarterly update. This edition contains the following content: Lessons learnt Chocks away: Despite the rarity of recent employer injunctions to stop strikes, one such injunction averted flight disruption over Chris...

Attempts at digital transformation, which have sometimes been slow in Tunisia, are now forced and obliged to succeed in order to guarantee continuity of work, economy and even life during the country's lockdown. The digital transformation is a stron...

Amendments to the recently passed draft PPP law have been approved by Jordan's Lower House Investment Committee (the “Committee”). The Committee has amended articles in the draft PPP law by removing the obligation on the Governme...

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has condoled with President Muhammadu Buhari over the death of his nephew, Alhaji Mutari Dauda. Lawan also commiserated with Malam Mamman Daura over the passing of Mutari, who was his younger brother. The Senate President said he shared in the grief of the entire Daura community, Government and people […]

Senator Lawan sends message to Buhari over nephew’s death

A frontline activist, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has accused the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike of turning into a dictator. He listed some attributes of dictatorship being displayed by the Governor to include the arbitrary arrest of pilots and oil workers; the closure of State boundaries and now an executive order to auction all vehicles […]

COVID-19 lockdown: Gov. Wike becoming a dictator in Rivers – Senior lawyer, Adegboruwa

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Ahead of the lower court decision on the definition of ordinary wage involving Kia Motors as a defendant, the nation's car makers warned that they would move their plants overseas if Kia loses the lawsuit. The Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association whose members include Hyundai Motor, Kia Motors, GM Korea, Renault Samsung, and Ssangyong Motor, said in a statement, "If Kia Motors must pay an additional labor cost of 3 trillion won after the ordinary wage litigation, we have no choice but to c...

The government is pushing forward with a plan worth US$8 million to help out vulnerable people in North Korea. Meanwhile it won't raise a lawsuit against China with the World Trade Organization in relation to the latter country's retaliatory measures after Korea's decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile defense system in its soil. Baek Tae-hyun, spokesperson for the Ministry of Unification, said on September 14, "We are reviewing a plan to give $8 milli...

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Federal investigators have found "reasonable grounds" that a government whistleblower was punished for speaking out against widespread use of an unproven drug that President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19, his lawyers said.

A married couple from Maryland ages 85 and 86 were the victims of a deadly shooting at a veterans cemetery in Delaware.

As the outbreak of the latest coronavirus spreads across the globe, the consequences for commercial transactions are evolving. From what was initially a shorter term focus on immediate impact, all of us in business are now in the position of plannin...

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (the “ACM”) has ruled that arrangments concerning a new form of sustainably reared chicken, known as the ‘Chicken of Tomorrow’, which lead to other forms of chicken being re...

Bristol Rovers (1183) Ltd v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 160 Bristol Rovers football club failed to secure victory in their most recent match - the venue was the Court of Appeal rather than “the Pirates” home ground, the Memorial Sta...

Street facing Chinese Embassy would be named for doctor who tried to warn about coronavirus

President Peter Mutharika, whose win in last year's vote was challenged, had appealed the re-run, which is now to be held July 2