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Regional differences in manufacturing wages in China - and the world’s largest middle class

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • China, USA
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  • August 2 2010

US and European businesses look increasingly to Asia for growth beyond their boundaries

Using headquarters personnel in China - dual employment replacing secondment as the technique of choice

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • China, USA
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  • July 9 2010

US companies often send headquarters personnel to assist the start-up and development of Chinese affiliates, and later to supervise and manage them in their growth

Chinese workers demanding their fair share - what does this mean for business?

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • China, USA
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  • June 27 2010

In recent weeks, workers at certain big company operations in China successfully used collective force and tragically unusual methods to increase their wages and benefits

IBM pays $10 million to settle long-running corruption probe

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • China, South Korea, USA
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  • March 25 2011

After a seven-year investigation, IBM settled SEC charges that IBM had violated internal controls and books and records provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

To write or not to write? International laws on employment agreements

  • Fisher & Phillips LLP
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  • China, Lithuania, USA
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  • July 25 2011

Employers in the United States, with the exception of a few jurisdictions, are accustomed to the concept of “employment at will”, which means that employees can be dismissed at any time and for any reason or no reason without notice or severance pay, unless there is a statute, contract or public policy legal tenet that provides otherwise

Nordam group settles China FCPA violations

  • Squire Sanders
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  • China, USA
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  • July 21 2012

On July 17, 2012, Nordam Group, Inc. (“Nordam”) an aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (“MRO”) service provider based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, entered into a three-year non-prosecution agreement (NPA) with the DOJ to resolve violations of the FCPA’s anti-bribery provisions

Recent developments for the fourth quarter 2011

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Canada, China, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 15 2012

The end of the year and beginning of a new year is always a busy time for us, as it is for most of our clients

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Social media privacy around the globe

  • McDermott Will & Emery
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  • Burkina Faso, China, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, USA
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  • November 28 2012

As the popularity of social media and information sharing grows, so too does the importance of that shared data to employers

International workplace dispute practices: key concepts for today’s global employers

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • China, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 5 2012

Increasingly, companies with operations or employees in more than one country are exposed to the risk of court proceedings in a foreign jurisdiction and the unfamiliar practices and procedures arising out of overseas litigation