Happy New Year! Hopefully 2021 is a brighter and better one for all. Our first Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update of 2021 covers: the recent Supreme Court decision in Thailand, that found that forwarding confidential work documents to a personal email account amounted to disclosure, even though there was no evidence that the documents … Read more

It’s the final Asia EPI e-bulletin of the year, and what a year it has been! Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month covers: the recent Court of Appeal judgment in Singapore, which considers what amounts to confidential information and what a business must show to claim damages for a breach; the changes … Read more

Employers have had to respond to continual changes to Covid-19-related rules and guidance over the last year, and the last month has been no exception.  Of course the biggest change has been the end of the national lockdown in England and the introduction of a revised tier system from 2 December 2020, but employers also … Read more

Updated 12, 13 November 2020 The guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme has now been updated to set out the rules under the scheme extension from 1 November 2020; links to the latest versions are available here.  These largely reflect the details already announced and much of the technical detail of the scheme remains … Read more

The Chancellor has just announced that the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, or ‘furlough’, recently extended until 2 December, will now be extended to the end of March 2021 for all parts of the UK. The scheme will continue to provide for employees to be paid 80% of their salary for hours not worked (up to … Read more

Updated 3 and 4 November 2020 The Prime Minister’s announcement on Saturday 31 October of a planned new national lockdown from Thursday 5 November to Wednesday 2 December (subject to parliamentary approval) was accompanied by a decision to extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) for a month to cover the lockdown period, and a … Read more

Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month covers: our Compliance Check in Singapore, looking at the subtle changes to the Tripartite Advisory on Managing Excess Manpower and Responsible Retrenchment; our dual-language article on the differences in limitation periods between civil cases and labour disputes in the PRC; the recent case of Yung Wai … Read more

Following the announcement that three local Covid alert levels will be introduced from Wednesday 14 October, the Government has published new guidance for those identified as clinically extremely vulnerable who were advised to shield during the Spring lockdown. The guidance notes that due to the measures to reduce transmission now in place, the need for … Read more