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Importance of having a choice of law clause in agency contracts

  • Clarkslegal LLP
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2013

Timothy Lawler v Sandvik Mining and Construction Mobile Crushers and Screens Limited was originally heard by the High Court in 2012. Mr Lawlor was an

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

International workplace dispute practices: key concepts for today’s global employers

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • China, France, Germany, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 5 2012

Increasingly, companies with operations or employees in more than one country are exposed to the risk of court proceedings in a foreign jurisdiction and the unfamiliar practices and procedures arising out of overseas litigation

General counsel update - 27 September 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Indonesia, Myanmar, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • September 27 2012

This is the 31st in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

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

Terminating a pregnant worker’s employment during the probationary period

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • December 22 2009

Under Spanish law, the dismissal of a pregnant employee will generally be found to be invalid, with the consequent obligation on the employer to reinstate the employee to her job and to pay her the wages that would have been due to her from the dismissal until the date of the judgment

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

Swearing at your boss may be OK in Spain!

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Spain, United Kingdom
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  • October 29 2009

Following a decision by Catalunya’s Superior Court of Justice earlier in the year, it seems that serious verbal abuse of a more senior colleague may not always be a ground for dismissal

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

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