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Watch out if. On a TUPE transfer you acquire employees who are covered by a collective agreement
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- February 27 2013
You may find that you are bound by terms agreed by other people after you become the employer. In 2002 the London Borough of Lewisham's leisure
To what extent are employees entitled to manifest their religious beliefs in the workplace?
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, USA
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- January 17 2013
On January 15, 2013 the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) gave its ruling in Eweida & Ors v the United Kingdom. As was widely reported in the
Collective redundancies when is the duty to consult triggered?
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- April 2 2012
Here’s a question for you: Business A is planning to close one of its sites
Should employees on long-term sick leave accrue holiday indefinitely?
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- European Union
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- July 22 2011
And finally, with the holiday season upon us, it seems only right that we should highlight a recent case working its way through the European Courts which may curtail the holiday that employees can claim to accrue during periods of long-term sick leave
Other news in brief
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- October 22 2010
The European Commission has confirmed that a second-stage consultation with Social Partners on proposals to amend the Working Time Directive (principally in relation to the maximum 48-hour working week opt-out and on-call time) will take place this Autumn
ECJ rules Spanish “breastfeeding” law unjustified
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Spain
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- October 22 2010
In Spain female employees are allowed to take time off work - up to an hour during the day or a half-hour reduction in the working day - to feed a baby under nine months of age
German compulsory retirement age is lawful, says ECJ
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Germany
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- October 22 2010
Earlier this month the ECJ gave a welcome boost to employers looking to retain a contractual retirement age when it confirmed that a provision in a collective agreement requiring employees to retire at 65 was lawful
Europe-wide concern about workplace stress
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- June 14 2010
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has published a document entitled the 'European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks' which reveals that although four out of five European managers are concerned about work-related stress issues, less than a third of employers have procedures in place to deal with stress
Service-related statutory notice provision held to be discriminatory
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Germany
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- February 25 2010
The notice periods to be given by employers terminating an employee's employment under German law are regulated in Paragraph 622(2) of the German Civil Code
EU economic growth resumes
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- February 25 2010
According to the European Commission's 'EU Employment Situation and Social Outlook' monthly monitor for February 2010, economic growth has resumed in the European Union, although the recovery remains fragile
