News & Analysis

The trend towards employees gaining greater control and flexibility over their working hours is set to continue.

Recent evidence suggests that progress towards gender parity has slowed and that the gender gap has in fact widened since the pandemic.

There have been several key announcements for HR practitioners in the UK to be aware of, including: a new minimum wage, increased statutory rates and limits, and the Spring 2023 Budget.

The latest Spring Statement of Changes of Immigration Rules has set out important developments that employers should be on top of, as have Budget day Treasury announcements and a new addition to the rules around Scale-up visas just published.

The Dutch Supreme Court has just ruled that Deliveroo meal deliverers are not self-employed, but rather “regular” employees.

The Dutch Supreme Court has definitively resolved the question of whether an employment contract between a secondment agency and a secondment worker may end with immediate effect under the “secondment provisions” if the secondment worker falls ill.

Little known and therefore little used in Germany is the option of providing pension contributions instead of severance pay.

In late January 2023, the UK Government published a draft Code of Practice on Dismissal and Re-engagement.

The new German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act imposes new obligations on larger companies, which must, among other things, check their entire supply chain for violations of human rights and environmental concerns.

On February 16, 2023, the German Federal Labor Court issued another important decision on equal pay, stating, among other things, whether and how unequal pay can be justified by way of exception.