David Smail

Getting Real “Bite” in the Year of the Tiger: The New Singapore Workplace Discrimination Guidelines*

Singapore - February 21 2022 During 2022, the Singapore Government looks set to enshrine into law some or all of the principles currently contained in the Tripartite Guidelines…

SEA Change Issue III: February 2022

Singapore - February 21 2022 We also look at stronger steps being taken in China to enhance whistleblower frameworks by (amongst other things) incentivizing the reporting of…

Maurice Burke, Sammy Fang, Apoorvaa Paranjpe, Andrew Robinson, Matthew Shaw, Rishikeesh Wijaya, Ray Xu

Asia Pacific Employment Law Forecast 2022

Global - January 20 2022 The Sex Discrimination and Fair Work (Respect at Work) Amendment Act 2021 ("Act") has now been introduced and its impact will be felt through 2022…

Lawrence Carter, Johnny Choi, Helen Colquhoun, Laura Scampion, Komson Suntheeraporn, Nicholas Turner

Update to Singapore workforce vaccination measures; Vaccination a condition for work pass / PR applications

Singapore - December 31 2021 On 26 December 2021, Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced changes to the Workforce Vaccination Measures which are due to be implemented from 1…

Singapore Implements New Workforce Vaccination Measures: Unvaccinated employees cannot return to the workplace from 1 January 2022

Singapore - November 1 2021 On 23 October 2021, the Singapore Multi-Ministry Task Force announced a set of new “Workforce Vaccination Measures” which will take effect from 1…