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Working Hours
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SimplyHR
Happy New Year! What’s on Tap for the United States Supreme Court in 2014
With 2013 at its close, let’s take a peek at two cases currently pending in the United States Supreme Court that will have implications for employers in 2014. Sandifer v.…
Global Workplace Insider
Working Hours and Annual Leave in China
By Grace Ye
Working Hours PRC law recognises three categories of working hour systems: (i) the Standard Working Hour System; (ii) the Flexible Working Hour System; and (iii) the Comprehensive Working Hour System. …
Inside EU Life Sciences
Commission Issues Recommendations Aiming to Improve Costly Employee-Related Legislation for SMEs
As reported in an earlier post, the European Commission (EC) is conducting a study of the top ten most burdensome EU laws for SMEs. This is part of an initiative…
Global Workplace Insider
French Supreme Court rules flexible working time for companies subject to the “SYNTEC” CBA invalid
Over the past few years, French case law has subjected to increasingly strict scrutiny employers using “forfait jours”, which is a specific method of working time for autonomous executives (whose…
Wage & Hour Law Update
U.S. House of Representatives Approves Compensatory Time Bill Along Party Lines
Developing political momentum for the first time in several years, the Republican-sponsored Working Families Flexibility Act or comp time bill - which would permit private sector employers to pay premium…
Offshore Winds
Working Hard or Hardly Working? The Definition of “Rest” and Towing Vessel Work-Hour Limitations
An often contentious issue in maritime litigation involving both personal injury and property damage is whether the wheelman in charge of a towing vessel that exceeds 26' violated the so-called “twelve-hour…
La Revue
Forfait annuel en jours : toutes les entreprises sont en situation de danger grave et imminent
Cass. soc. 24 avril 2013, n° 11-28398 FSPB La ficelle est maintenant connue de tous les avocats en droit social amenés à défendre les intérêts de cadres autonomes licenciés pour…
Wage & Hour - Developments & Highlights
What Is Working Time? Listen To My Webcast Airing on January 17, 2013
I often post on and discuss working time issues, e.g. travel time, on-call time, automatic lunch deduction cases, training time and, of late, after-hours employee email/blackberry usage and whether it is…
La Revue
Temps de travail : multiplication des contentieux avec les cadres sous conventions de forfaits-jours sur l’année
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Employment Law Worldview
Olympics Sunday trading – implications for retailers?
The UK Government recently announced that it will relax the Sunday trading laws (which currently prevent large stores from opening for more than six hours on Sundays) for an eight-week…