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DLA Piper adds five new partners to global employment team

Promotions elevate employment, labour, data protection, and pensions experts across Ireland, Canada, the US and the UK

Elodie Favre-Thellmann and Judith Römer, Freshfields

Community

Freshfields promotes two employment experts to partner

Elodie Favre-Thellmann in France and Judith Römer in Germany join partner ranks from 1 May

Fertility treatment

Pregnancy

Staff undergoing fertility treatment protected before treatment begins

Termination of worker found to be in violation of gender equality laws, Danish Supreme Court rules

Canada election

Politics

How to manage staff during Canada’s snap election

With Trump’s trade war dominating the election debate, employers may struggle to stop politics from boiling over at work

AU dollars

Remuneration

Half a million Australians to get pay hike in gender parity ruling

Fair Work Commission proposes pay increases of up to 35% for workers in female-dominated health sectors

Disputes

UK’s top court rules legal definition of “woman” is based on biological sex

Judgment will have “on the ground” implications for employers’ workplace policies

Privacy

Law students sue EEOC over “unlawful” DEI probe

Without a formal complaint, federal agency has no right to jobseekers’ sensitive information, argue plaintiffs

Data Protection

HSE not obligated to repay Bitcoin lost in cyberattack, says Irish court

Ruling clarifies an employer’s liability for personal data stored on company devices

Working Time

Samsung to raise working hours despite 2018 cap

Employees will work an extra 12 hours per week, as part of a wider effort to improve South Korea’s economy

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