Privacy and Social Networking in the Worplace: France, Germany and the UK
WEBINAR – Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Issues Covered: Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and the rest of the new social networking media have revolutionized the ways employees communicate with each other, but...
View ArticleInternational Employment Litigation Issues
Proskauer’s International Labor and Employment Group participated to the National Foreign Trade Council conference held in New York on July 15, 2011, at the Annual International Human Resources...
View ArticleSocial Networks in the Workplace Around the World – L’utilisation des réseaux...
SURVEY – July 2011 The business world continues to witness the ongoing and rapid proliferation in the use of social media at work. This, in turn, has left companies (as well as the courts) grappling to...
View ArticleBullying, Harassment and Stress in the Workplace — A European Perspective
SEMINAR – Tuesday, December 6, 2011 Program: Bullying, harassment and stress in the workplace is becoming increasingly prevalent. Employers must be ever-more vigilant to prevent unwanted conduct that...
View ArticleMobile Executives and International Assignments: A Cross-Border Perspective
SEMINAR – Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Program: Assigning employees overseas is an increasingly important consideration for international businesses. In our globalized world, there is a growing perception...
View ArticleHow to deal with personal data for multinational companies?
For the first article of this blog, the Proskauer International Labor Group has decided to focus on this tricky question since we know that our friends and clients having an international presence face...
View ArticleInternational workplace dispute practices: key concepts for today’s global...
Increasingly, companies with operations or employees in more than one country are exposed to the risk of court proceedings in a foreign jurisdiction and the unfamiliar practices and procedures arising...
View ArticleWorkplace bullying, mobbing and harassment – a global hot topic
Around the world, the issue of bullying, mobbing and harassment at work is one which is attracting more and more attention, both in the media and through legal developments which are increasingly...
View ArticleILG Blog Posting: Social Media Evolves
Social media around the world continues to evolve and so does the International Labour Group at Proskauer. For a second year in a row, Proskauer and its global partners have conducted a survey of...
View ArticlePromoting Diversity on the Workplace
SEMINAR – Thursday, March 21, 2013 On March 21, the Paris office held a Seminar on Diversity in the workplace, focusing on legal obligations that are applying and best practices and lessons learned in...
View ArticleTIPS FOR SETTING EMPLOYEES’ SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES
Setting the correct salary is never easy and is more an art than a science. In the current economic climate the market fluctuates according to industry, geographical location, budgetary constraints...
View ArticleUK Employment Law – A Year In Perspective – Changes Past and on the Horizon
2013 has been a significant year for UK employment law. In particular, an abundance of new legislation (both about substantive law and Employment Tribunal procedure) has heralded a number of important...
View ArticleUK Whistleblowing Protection Extended to Partners
As originally published on Proskauer’s Whistleblower Defense blog, in the UK, whistleblowing law is based on a statute prohibiting a “worker” being dismissed or subjected to any other detriment because...
View ArticleTermination for Offensive Social Media Posts May Be a “Reasonable Response”...
The UK Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) recently considered two unfair dismissal cases in which an employer terminated an employee for inappropriately posting on personal Twitter or Facebook accounts....
View ArticleUK Tribunal Defines Some Limits on Employee Privacy Protections and Expands...
Employee’s Privacy Rights European courts continue to grapple with the limits on employee protections under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. Article 8 protects a person’s right to...
View ArticleBrexit & The Consequences for UK Employment Law
On 23 June 2016 the people of Britain voted in favour of leaving the European Union – the so-called “Brexit.” The result has created uncertainty and speculation as to the implications of Brexit and...
View ArticleThe War on Modern Slavery Continues
On July 30, 2016, newly-elected British Prime Minister, Theresa May, wrote an article detailing how her government would lead the charge in combatting modern slavery. As a major proponent of the UK...
View ArticleRecord fine handed to TalkTalk in data protection breach in the UK
As previously reported on our Privacy Blog, TalkTalk, a major UK telecoms company, has been fined a record breaking £400,000 for a data breach after they were hacked. This fine, given by the ICO (the...
View ArticleUK Tribunal Allows Expatriate to Bring Claims in the UK
In Jeffrey v. The British Council 2016, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) ruled that an employee who had an “exceptional degree of connection” with the United Kingdom could bring claims in the UK...
View ArticleHigh Court Decision Serves as a Cautionary Tale for Office Holiday Parties
The High Court ruled on December 1, 2016 that Northampton Recruitment Limited was not liable when a manager punched an employee twice in the head after a Christmas party. While the Company was not held...
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