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Global employment, pensions and benefits e-bulletin

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia, China, European Union, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam
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  • April 18 2013

A renewed regulatory focus on sham contracting and a court recent decision in ACE Insurance Limited v Trifunovski highlights the need for employers to

General counsel update: 28 February 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Hong Kong, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • February 28 2012

This is the twenty-eighth in our series of General Counsel Updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Worker can defer annual leave until after period of sick leave: case law update: Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA

  • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • November 17 2009

Article 7 of the Working Time Directive (which applies to all European Union Member States) entitles all workers to a minimum of four weeks’ paid annual leave per year

Workers can postpone annual leave if they fall sick

  • MacRoberts LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

In the case of Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA, the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") has ruled that where a worker is sick during his annual leave, annual leave must be granted for a different period and, if necessary, outside the relevant holiday year

Holiday blues

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • September 23 2009

The European Court of Justice on 15 September 2009 issued judgment in Pereda, a Spanish case concerning an employee's ability to postpone vacation when sick or injured

Age discrimination

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • January 31 2008

In the absence of any ground breaking legislation, age discrimination has probably been the most talked about topic in 2007, at least judging by the amount of column inches devoted to it in employment law publications

Compulsory retirement ages must be justified

  • Cobbetts LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 12 2007

The ECJ has decided in a Spanish case that the European Framework Directive on Equal Treatment does cover compulsory retirement ages

ECJ case watch

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 4 2007

It looks as though the UK’s mandatory retirement age of 65 and the duty-to-consider procedure under the Age Regulations are set to stay (at least for now) following the European Court of Justice’s judgment in the Spanish age discrimination case of Palacios v Cortefiel Servicios SA

Heyday challenge

  • DMH Stallard LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • November 23 2007

In July 2006 Heyday, an organisation created by and closely associated with Age Concern, issued a judicial review application in the High Court challenging the legality of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations

State compulsory retirement provisions must be justified

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • European Union, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • November 1 2007

National laws setting out compulsory retirement ages will be unlawful under EU law unless objectively justified by a legitimate aim

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