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

The European Court of Justice’s recent ruling in Schrems II has invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield, meaning that companies can no longer rely on this mechanism for transferring personal data (including employee data) from the EU to the US.  Companies transferring data to the US relying on the Privacy Shield (including transfers to a number … Read more

As we hit mid year, the employment landscape across Asia has started to move away from only focussing on Covid-19 related emergency measures. Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: the recent decision in Malaysia in Ahmad Zahriv AIMS Cyberjaya Sdn BHd in relation to fixed term employment contracts; the restrictions … Read more

As workplaces are slowly beginning to re-open, new challenges arise for employment law and HR teams. Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: the various measures introduced by the Department of Labour and Employment measures introduced in the Philippines, to preserve employment during the Covid-19 pandemic the conflicting views around whether the … Read more

Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: the new measures in South Korea introducing paid emergency childcare leave to ease the burden on working parents; the Employment Adjustment Subsidy in Japan, intended to try and prevent employers from resorting to immediate redundancies; in Thailand, the new data protection rules and how … Read more

We hope our readers are staying well through this difficult period and adjusting to the new work from home arrangements. Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: what constitutes redundancy in New Zealand, the decision in National Legal Service Authority vs Union of India and what it means for transgender employees in … Read more

Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month looks at: our live webinar that discussed the continued impact of COVID-19 across the region and some of the challenges faced by businesses and organisations; In Indonesia, the proposals outlined in the draft Omnibus Bill on Job Creation, including among other things, widespread changes to termination … Read more

Our final Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update for 2019 looks at: the changes to immigration policies in China, that came into effect 1 August 2019 and relax the requirements for highly-skilled foreign workers and students which had previously been in place; in Malaysia, the amendments outlined in the Industrial Relations Bill which while not … Read more