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Measures to ensure budget stability and on encouraging competitiveness
Spain - December 10 2012 Measures to ensure budget stability / encourage competitiveness – social security system.
Amendment Working Conditions Decree
Netherlands - December 10 2012 From 1 July 2012, independent workers (i.e. not employees) who work at the same workplace as “ordinary" employees will have the same level of protection in relation to health and safety as salaried employees.
Draft Scheme of Criminal Justice (Corruption) Bill
Ireland - December 10 2012 The draft Bill includes proposals for corporate criminal liability for corrupt acts by company directors, managers, officers, employees, subsidiaries or agents.
Legal entities where work safety offences have been committed may, on the prosecutor’s demand, be sentenced to a corporate fine of at least EUR 850 and at most EUR 850,000 - Finnish Criminal Code (39/1889), as amended
Finland - December 10 2012 Under the Criminal Code, a legal entity may be sentenced to a corporate fine if a person who is part of its statutory organ or other management, or who exercises actual decision-making authority therein has: been an accomplice in the work safety offence or allowed the commission of the offence; or if the care and diligence necessary for the prevention of the offence have not been observed in the operations of the corporation.
National minimum wage increase - the National Minimum Wage (Amendment) Regulations 2012
United Kingdom - December 10 2012 Impact date: 1 October 2012 National minimum wage rates will increase for workers age 21 and over and apprentices.
