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How to stop your confidential information departing with your employees

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • March 14 2013

Your business should have standard protections for confidential information and procedures for dealing with departing employees who have access to it

A summary of major developments in key areas

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Indonesia, Myanmar, United Kingdom
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  • March 7 2013

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and institutional bodies have published the following guidance in relation to corporate governance and

Employers to be aware and prepare - Privacy Act amendments

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Australia
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  • February 25 2013

The much anticipated privacy legislation passed through Federal Parliament late last year. Employers now need to be extra careful in the way they

Recent developments for the third quarter 2012

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • Australia, China, European Union, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Singapore, Taiwan, United Kingdom, USA
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  • January 8 2013

This letter is from the Global Equity Services ("GES") group in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Attorneys in the GES practice group work

Social media as a recruitment tool: are there legal implications?

  • Holding Redlich
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  • Australia
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  • November 20 2012

Australian employers are increasingly using social media to find out about candidates for employment

Supreme Court of New South Wales finds that a company’s employees were induced to breach their employment contracts by a competitor in Wilson HTM Investment Group Limited & Ors v Pagliaro & Ors

  • Gilbert + Tobin
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  • Australia
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  • October 25 2012

Employers should avoid seeking detailed revenue, remuneration or commission information from prospective employees and should assume such employees are contractually restrained from disclosing it

Discrimination in the Australian computer technology industry

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
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  • Australia
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  • October 4 2012

The Australian Computer Society (“ACS”) conducted a survey and found that almost one third of all people applying for information and computer technology positions have been discriminated against on the basis of age or gender

Bring your own device

  • Madgwicks
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  • Australia
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  • September 19 2012

The consumerisation of IT is the latest technology trend posing challenges to Australian businesses

Summary dismissals to be handled with care

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Australia
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  • July 27 2012

In a recent X-rated tale a summary termination was found to constitute unfair dismissal, even where an employee's misuse of electronic communication provided a sufficient reason for termination

The legal risks arising from electronic storage of work information

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
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  • Australia
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  • June 1 2012

The transformation of the contemporary workplace through electronic practices and information technology has led to new challenges for employers and employees, courts and legislatures, policy makers and government