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Employment law alert
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- October 18 2011
Welcome to our October 2011 edition of the Employment Law Alert, in which we consider several recent employment law developments in Hong Kong covering a wide range of regular issues for human resources practitioners and in-house lawyers
Employers' duty of care when referring to former employees in communications with third parties
- Reed Smith LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- September 14 2011
recent English case of McRobert McKie v Swindon College 2011 EWHC 469 demonstrates that an employer owes a duty of care to a former employee when referring to himher in communications with a third party
Springboard injunction - protecting your business
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- September 14 2011
During an employee's course of employment, an employee often has access to confidential information and trade secrets belonging to the employer, such as customer lists and data bases, product lists and other confidential know-how
Minimum wage ordinance ("ordinance") - are you ready?
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- December 1 2010
The Minimum Wage Bill was passed by the Legislative Council on 17 July 2010 and was gazetted on 23 July 2010
Recent decision - a claim for a right to extend employment beyond the contractually agreed retirement age
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- December 1 2010
The plaintiff employee was a former commercial airline pilot of the defendant employer Cathay Pacific and was retired on his birthday in accordance with the employer’s Conditions of Service 1999, which provided that “the normal retirement age is 55”
Recent decision - a claim based on an alleged "anti-avoidance" term survives a strike out application on appeal
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- December 1 2010
The defendant employer applied to strike-out the plaintiff employee’s claim and was initially successful
Employees’ compensation claim for being rostered on-call on a statutory holiday or on a rest day
- Reed Smith LLP
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- Hong Kong
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- November 18 2010
Doctors have been dedicated to serving the Hong Kong community well, particularly at times when there were a great shortage of doctors
Sexual harassment in the workplace
- Reed Smith LLP
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- China, Hong Kong
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- November 18 2010
There have been cases where doctors have been sued for sexual harassment of their colleagues in the workplace
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- Workarea - Employment & Labor
- Firm Name - Reed Smith LLP
- Author - Catherine Leung