Pay equity is a hot-button issue in the US. The EEOC and OFCCP have announced plans to begin collecting detailed pay information from US employers. Seven states have also passed legislation in the last twelve
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Mandated Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
Recent legislation in the United Kingdom — the Modern Slavery Act (MSA) — requires every company doing business there and with a global revenue of at least £36 million (roughly 54 million in US dollars)
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China: End of Cheap Labor Should Not Come As a Surprise
*Alan Wang of DLA’s Shanghai Office contributed to this article.
If you are an avid shopper, you may have noticed in the past holiday season that fewer and fewer items on the shelf had
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5 Tips on Global Compensation Plans
Multinationals are increasingly looking to take pay, bonus and benefits plans global. That can be tricky. Cautionary tales include hefty fines for neglecting to translate documents into a local language and court rulings holding discretionary
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Top 10 Pitfalls in Managing Employment Contracts as You Go Global
The CEO of an emerging growth company called me a while ago, a bit shocked after having seen the employment contracts that had just been issued to a couple of new hires in Hong Kong.
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Secondment Guessing?
Often, it makes practical sense to send an experienced worker from his/her home country to another country rather than engage an independent contractor or hire a new employee in that destination country. This is precisely
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BRIC Façade?
Economists have predicted that the quartet of countries known as BRIC – Brazil, Russia, India and China – will have the world’s most explosive growth in the coming decades. Indeed, businesses and investors have flocked
Employees Working Far Away From The Office: A Jurisdictional Nightmare?
Courtesy of technology, employees can work from home or anywhere else. For organizations that have not issued a flat ban on such work, there is a glitch that no one is talking about. What if
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