Remarks On The Opinions On Further Stabilizing Employment

On the occasion of this year’s Christmas Eve, the State Council promulgated the Opinions on Further Stabilizing Employment (Guo Fa [2019] No. 28, referred to as the “Opinions”), providing very detailed guiding opinions on the stabilization of employment present and for the foreseeable future. The Opinions compromise of 26 articles of eight aspects. From the perspective of employment law, let’s go straight to the key points and see what the Opinions mean to the employers.

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By | December 3rd, 2020 ||

U.S. Companies Must Prepare To Pay Higher Wages For Specialty Occupation Foreign Workers

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently published the “Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States” interim final rule, amending the existing four-tier wage structure governing the calculation of prevailing wage levels.

The new regulation significantly increases the wage levels of the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) wage survey across all occupations.  It affects H-1B (Specialty Occupation), H-1B1 (Free Trade Agreement Workers in a Specialty Occupation from Chile […]

By | December 3rd, 2020 ||

The new normal: Challenges in a post-pandemic working environment

With Australia transitioning into a recovery phase, there are new areas of the working relationship which employers will need to adjust to in the post-pandemic working environment.

There have been developments in recent weeks which have shed light on new work paradigms which employers need to prepare for.
No jab no work?
Recent developments in the race to create a vaccine for COVID-19 have yielded some promising results, with suggestions that a vaccine may be ready by […]

By | December 3rd, 2020 ||