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How young foreign professionals can easily obtain a Swiss work permit
Are you young, completed your education abroad and fancy a job in Switzerland? - No problem thanks to the Stagiaire agreements! 1. What is a Stagiaire agreement? Switzerland has entered...
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Germany Update: No operational risk in the event of a state-mandated “lockdown”
"If the employer has to temporarily close his business due to a government-mandated general "lockdown" to combat the corona pandemic, he does not bear the risk of loss of work and...
read moreUK Update: The beginning of the end of the furlough scheme – what next?
The government’s job retention scheme, otherwise known as the “furlough scheme”, came to a close on 30 September 2021. The furlough scheme saved millions of jobs throughout the UK and...
read moreTHE CASE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO GIG WORKERS IN INDIA
Recently, the Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers, a registered trade union federation representing app-based transport and delivery workers, filed a public interest litigation (“PIL”) in India’s Supreme Court (the...
read moreUS Update: Education Agreements Can Aid Employers Hiring Inexperienced Workers
Employers are getting desperate to find employees, so much so that they are foregoing some of the requirements that they used to have for positions. In some cases, instead of...
read moreNew Zealand Update: Court of Appeal reverses holiday pay decision
The Court of Appeal has overturned the Employment Court’s decision in relation to whether short-term incentive (STI) payments need to be taken into account when determining an employee’s holiday pay....
read moreNew Korean Supreme Court Decision on Annual Leave
On October 14, 2021, the Supreme Court resolved the question of how much unused annual leave an employee must be compensated for after serving a single one-year fixed term: the...
read moreGermany Update: Shaking the probative value of a certificate of incapacity for work
It is not uncommon for employees to present the employer with a certificate of incapacity for work (AU certificate) that extends to the end of the notice period at the...
read moreSwitzerland Update: How to create better shareholders’ agreements—a lawyer’s perspective
A lawyers view with Christian Wyss. Christian, what are the topics with the most conflict potential in a shareholders’ agreement (SHA)? Let me start with the “double trouble” topics that...
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