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New Zealand Update: Court of Appeal reverses holiday pay decision
The Court of Appeal has overturned the Employment Court’s decision in relation to whether short-term incentive (STI) payments need to be taken into account when determining an employee’s holiday pay. The...
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CIVIL CODE FOR THE FEDERAL DISTRICT AND THE NOTARIAL LAW OF MEXICO CITY
On August 4, 2021, Mexico City’s Congress published in the Official Gazette of Mexico City (“Gazette”) a decree that supplements and amends various articles of the Civil Code for the...
read moreNew Korean Supreme Court Decision on Annual Leave
On October 14, 2021, the Supreme Court resolved the question of how much unused annual leave an employee must be compensated for after serving a single one-year fixed term: the...
read moreUSA Update: Replevin Actions: What You Should Know
A contractor client recently found itself in a prickly situation. They had default terminated a subcontractor on a major commercial project and withheld payment to that subcontractor on an outstanding invoice...
read moreGermany Update: Shaking the probative value of a certificate of incapacity for work
It is not uncommon for employees to present the employer with a certificate of incapacity for work (AU certificate) that extends to the end of the notice period at the...
read moreSwiss law and Swiss venue (or arbitration) in contractual negotiations
When advising clients, we often encounter situations where negotiating parties, having agreed upon the commercial terms of their contract, need to come to terms with regard to jurisdiction and applicable...
read moreSwitzerland Update: How to create better shareholders’ agreements—a lawyer’s perspective
A lawyers view with Christian Wyss. Christian, what are the topics with the most conflict potential in a shareholders’ agreement (SHA)? Let me start with the “double trouble” topics that...
read moreCan You Prove It? New Jersey Court Holds That Plaintiff Alleging Negligent Destruction of Evidence Failed to Sufficiently Prove Proximate Cause in Underlying Claim
In 27-35 Jackson Ave., LLC v. Samsung Fire & Marine Inc. Co., No. A-2925-19, 2021 N.J. Super LEXIS 120, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (Appellate Division) considered whether the...
read moreUK Update: Menopause in the workplace: making small changes to support your star players
It’s been nearly two and half years since I first wrote about the legal remedies available for those suffering from the menopause; triggered by my own curiosity as a woman...
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