Australia: Safety Snapshot – July 2019
To read about recent developments and trends in safety, click here and see our latest Safety Snapshot. Read more
UK: ICO announces first ‘mega fines’ for data breach under GDPR
In the last couple of days, the Information Commissioner’s Office has issued two notices of intent to impose the first ‘mega fines’ under the GDPR regime for data breaches by British Airways (for £183.39 milion) and Marriott International (for £99.2 million). Both companies now have the chance to respond to the notices of intent, after … Read more
Australia: WHS Safety Law Podcast EP2: Due Diligence and Director Duties
In this second instalment of the WHS Safety Law series, our WHS specialist partners Aaron Anderson (Brisbane) and Steve Bell (Melbourne) share their thoughts on the important issue of Director and Officer ‘due diligence’ under safety laws. Read more
UK: Supreme Court upholds non-compete covenant, overruling Court of Appeal’s restrictive approach to severance
This morning the Supreme Court has handed down judgment in Tillman v Egon Zehnder, ruling that the ‘blue pencil’ test permitting severance of words that extend the scope of a covenant too far can be applied to parts of a single covenant, even where it is not in effect a combination of several distinct covenants. … Read more
Asia: Employment, Pensions & Incentives Update
The June edition of our e-bulletin focuses on data access requests from employees in Hong Kong. Read about the right to access personal data in the employment context here. In Singapore we consider the recent case of HT SRL v Wee Shuo Woon, which discusses the use of restraint of trade clauses and how they … Read more
APAC: Legal Privilege in Investigations
Our Asia comparative article completes the analysis of legal privilege in investigations, looking at the rules in Malaysia, India and Thailand. You can access that information here. Read more
Compliance Check: Philippines Labour Arrangements
The Philippines Department of Labour and Employment (DOLE) continues to uphold stringent labour requirements. Department Order 174 of 2017 (DO 174) sets out prohibited forms of employment arrangements, and provides that the only permitted form of a contracting arrangement is “job contracting”. Read more
Taiwan: Labour Inspections
Taiwan’s Labour Standards Act (the Act) was amended again in January 2018 (the 2018 Amendments). In this bulletin, we consider the effect that the amendments have had on the conduct of labour inspections in Taiwan. Read more