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Employment

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 26 2010

Where a member of management left to join a rival company and sought to recruit various teams from his former employer, held that the team leaders were under a duty to report his approaches to their employer and further held that it was not constructive dismissal for the employer to warn its employees of the legal consequences should they decide to accept these approaches

Modelling agencies and employment agencies investigated for price-fixing activities

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • May 26 2011

On 13 May 2011, the Competition Commission of Singapore ("CCS") issued a Proposed Infringement Decision ("PID") against 16 employment agencies for breach of section 34 of the Competition Act

Recent bills and acts

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • April 29 2011

At the recent parliamentary session on 11 April 2011, the following bills were passed into law

Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd v Overliese

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • April 29 2011

Where an employee used information confidential to his employer to come up with a competing product, held that the employer was not entitled to damages arising from the employee's failure to disclose his conflict of interest

Recent bills and acts

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • January 31 2011

At the recent parliamentary session during the week beginning 11 January 2011, the following bills were passed into law

SEC adopts rules for say-on-pay and golden parachute compensation

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 31 2011

On 25 January 2011, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") adopted rules on executive compensation arrangements

PIDs issued against employment and modelling agencies

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • July 21 2011

On 13 May 2011, the CCS issued a PID against 16 employment agencies for contravening Section 34 (the "Section 34 Prohibition") of the Competition Act ("Act"), which prohibits anti-competitive agreements or arrangements (among other things

Employment

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • June 30 2011

The Singapore High Court has dismissed the claims brought by the Walton Group of Companies against its former head of Asia for, amongst others, unlawful interference with trade, defamation, malicious falsehood, and breach of a non-solicitation clause

Restrictive covenants considered in two recent High Court cases

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • January 12 2012

Recently, the Singapore High Court had to consider two cases where former employees that had set up competing businesses with their former employers challenged certain clauses in their former employment contracts as being in restraint of trade and, hence, void

Re-employment obligations to come into force on 1 January 2012

  • Wong Partnership
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • November 28 2011

The Retirement Age (Amendment) Act ("Amendment Act") has been gazetted to come into force on 1 January 2012

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