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

Our Asia Employment, Pensions and Incentives update this month covers: the updated requirements on stay permits and visitor visas in Indonesia following the easing of immigration restrictions on 1 October 2020; the grounds on which an employer can seek the dissolution of a trade union in Thailand and whether doing so amounts to an unfair … 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

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