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Newswire 07/10/2021

New Zealand Update: Residency lollie scramble

The path to gaining New Zealand residency has been plagued by long delays, shifting goalposts and snaking queues. Last week the Government gave temporary work visa holders some much needed...

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Newswire 06/10/2021

Employers Beware: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Files Pandemic Related Remote Work Lawsuit

Last month, the EEOC filed a first of its kind lawsuit in federal court in Georgia based on an employer’s denial of an accommodation request to work from home. In...

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Newswire 05/10/2021

New Zealand Update: ERA upholds vaccine requirement

The Employment Relations Authority has released its first, and much anticipated, COVID-19 vaccination determination (available here). The Authority found that the New Zealand Customs Service (Customs) was justified in dismissing an...

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Newswire 01/10/2021

Colombia Update: TAX REFORM – SOCIAL INVESTMENT ACT (ACT 2155 OF 2021)

NORMALIZATION TAX Taxable event: This is a tax, created for 2022, supplementary to the income tax, and its taxable event consists on the possession of omitted assets or liabilities inexistent by...

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Newswire 28/09/2021

UK Update: Just like fiscal or monetary policy, migration policy is an area of government decision-making that has a very wide impact across a large number of distinct policy areas.

Nowhere is this interaction clearer than in relation to adult social care. With EU free movement of people ending in the UK, the complexity of the interaction between migration policy...

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Newswire 17/09/2021

UK Update: Increasingly, employers are using or looking at using artificial intelligence (AI) in an employment context.

AI can help to make recruitment processes more efficient, better identify the best talent applying to them and to try to eliminate or even just minimise potential for human biases...

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Newswire 16/09/2021

The Netherlands Update: Jacob and handing in vacation days – An Employment Law Scenario.

"I would like to use the vacation days saved in recent years for a long-term sabbatical, Jacob. I'm ready after all this Covid misery." It's Monday morning, 10:00 a.m. Jacob...

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Newswire 13/09/2021

Employee Vaccine Mandates and Vaccination Status Data Privacy in Cambodia

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian government has issued a range of policies and measures, including movement restrictions, necessary quarantines, prohibitions on large gatherings, and selective lockdowns. Simultaneously,...

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Newswire 13/09/2021

Italy Update: Wages paid in untraced mode – consequences

Law no. 205 of 27 December 2017 – INL Notes no. 4538/2018, no. 6201/2018, no. 9294/2018 and no. 473/2021 From 1 July 2018 – in accordance with the provisions of...

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