Following its November 8, 2021 move to remove and replace all regional COVID-19 Travel bans with a blanket vaccination requirement, the Biden administration announced a new COVID-19 travel ban on those seeking to enter the U.S. from various African
Continue Reading Just When I Thought I was Out: Omicron Variant and the Return of Regional COVID-19 Travel Bans
Following its November 8, 2021 move to remove and replace all regional COVID-19 Travel bans with a blanket vaccination requirement, the Biden administration announced a new COVID-19 travel ban on those seeking to enter the U.S. from various African
Continue Reading Just When I Thought I was Out: Omicron Variant and the Return of Regional COVID-19 Travel Bans
If you have become weary of the several seconds it can sometimes take you to get from opening up Global Edge to reaching information on your usual country of choice, we can help you!
Global Edge 2.0 allows each country
Continue Reading Global Edge 2.0, The Inside Track: Part 4 – New Country Music To Your Ears
Against the background of industrial unrest in other sectors, the social partners of Joint Committee 200 –the Committee representing the largest number of employees in the country, more than 480.000 in total – have quietly come to an agreement on
Continue Reading Belgium’s largest Joint Committee reaches a new agreement on employment and working conditions – deadlines for employers to act are tight!
Back in June Acas produced a report on the “fire and re-hire” practices used by some employers to make detrimental changes to employees’ terms and conditions of employment. In essence, the employee is given notice of dismissal from his old contract
Continue Reading New Acas fire and re-hire guidance – how to do the wrong thing in the right way (UK)
Our colleagues Shams Hirji and Colter Paulson at SPB’s Sixth Circuit Appellate Blog provide an update on the latest legal maneuvers involving OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard requiring larger US employers to require employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to
Continue Reading OSHA Files Emergency Motion to Allow Vaccine-or-Test ETS to Move Forward (US)
On November 12, 2021, the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) issued new policies conferring the benefit of automatic extension of employment authorization for certain H-4, E, and L nonimmigrant dependent spouses. This significant shift in policy comes on the
Continue Reading Major Changes Implemented in Employment Authorization Procedures for Spouses of H, E and L Visa Holders (US)
Restrictive covenants are a common feature of many employment contracts. They are favoured by employers which want to ensure that departing employees will not solicit business, compete, poach clients or colleagues, and so on. When they are needed they are
Continue Reading Not signed, not enforceable? How UK employers can enforce restrictive covenants in unsigned contracts.
Our webinar on disciplinary proceedings last week began unpromisingly – there is no new law and little new practice to learn, I had to say, not necessarily what you want to hear from your legal training session. Nonetheless, we had
Continue Reading Disciplinary Procedures webinar – your questions answered (UK)
In the wave of sunny optimism following the roll-out of our vaccination programme this spring-summer, few people in Belgium had anticipated that the Covid situation would worsen again, or do so as quickly as it has. And yet the numbers
Continue Reading Belgium imposes tighter Covid measures (including an obligation to work from home again)
