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New DIFC Employment Law – What Do You Need to Know?
August 16, 2019, Covington Alert
The new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Employment Law (DIFC Law 2/2019) has now been published and will come into force on August 28, 2019. The new law contains significant amendments to the old DIFC Employment Law (DIFC Law 5/2004) and there have been revisions to the draft law published earlier this year.
September 4, 2020, Covington Alert
It has been over twenty years since the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention came into force, over a decade since the enactment of the UK Bribery Act, and over three years since the passage of France’s Sapin II law. Alongside those ground-breaking developments have come a host of other measures across the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (“EMEA”) region to strengthen ...
August 2019, Covington Alert
The ECJ ruled on 14 May 2019 (C-55/18) that Member States must take measures to ensure that employers comply with the minimum rest periods and prevent workers from working in excess of the weekly maximum working hours, including introducing an "objective, reliable and accessible system" to measure daily working time.
February 1, 2018, Covington Alert
This International Employment Update summarises recent international employment law developments in China, India, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.