The article focuses on the September 7, 2006 ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding the British Working Time Regulations. According to ECJ, the government guidelines supplementing the working time rules are liable to render the right of workers to daily and weekly rest periods ...
And — like virtually all countries’ labour rules — they can be complex. For example, companies with at least 50 employees must have an annual negotiation process that in part examines: equality between female and male employees the employees’ ability to exercise their right to disconnect from...
Different rules for different countries The agreements we have are different between countries. For example, if you’re from the UK, under 30 years old and accepted for the visa, you can live and work in New Zealand for up to 23 months. If you’re from France, Germany, Japan or the ...
On 18 April 18 2023, the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) presented the long-awaited draft amendment to the Working Time Act and other regulations. Following the deccision of the Federal Labor Court of 13 September 2022 (case no. 1 ABR 22/21), the new law ...
And which tax and social security rules will apply? Can they benefit from a ‘right to disconnect’? If they identify a fraud, what levels of whistle-blower protection might they receive? For those preparing or auditing financial statements, how should headcount be calculated, and on what basis...
Today, the struggle for fair time is gaining ground. As workers organize, they are insisting on their right to participate in deciding the rules under which they work. They are rejecting rigid, inflexible scheduling and demanding an end to the mal-distribution of work, with forced overtime for...
But whether you’re working from home full- or part-time, setting boundaries around your working setup is one of the most important things to do. Why WFH life is all about setting boundaries Boundaries are personal rules about what we will and won’t do 🙅♀️ ...
then adding to the recorded break time looks suspiciously like cheating to me. And all that at the cost of considerable, unnecessary complexity added to your system. Yes, it's not rocket science, but as it usually multiplies with a lot of other complexities, weeding these rules out would of...
Under current compliance rules, industry players have a duty to publish the details of all joint working initiatives on their website. The ABPI has worked with its members to extend and expand upon more than 50 of these summaries and collated them into the repository. More are expected to fo...
They form a spectrum ranging from strict controls on working patterns that are collectively applied to either the entire workforce or particular sections of it, through to individualised time rights that individual employees have the option to use under specific conditions. These rules and rights are...