Worldwide: Asia Employment Law: Quarterly Review (Third Quarter 2014)

Keywords: Asia, employment law developments, case law changes

Issue 7: Third Quarter 2014 (as at September 2014)

Asia’s legal and human resources advisors are often required to function across multiple jurisdictions. Staying on top of employment-related legal developments is important but can be challenging.

To help keep you up to date, Mayer Brown JSM has produced the Asia Employment Law: Quarterly Review, an e-publication covering 15 jurisdictions in Asia. It is updated every quarter.

In this seventh edition, […]

By | November 17th, 2014 ||

United States: Voters Approve Minimum Wage Hikes In San Francisco And Oakland

On Tuesday, San Franciscans overwhelmingly voted to raise the City’s minimum wage to $15.00 over the next few years. The San Francisco current minimum wage of $10.74 is already higher than both the federal minimum wage of $7.25 and California’s minimum wage of $9.00. Under the new law, wages will rise to $11.05 on January 1, 2015, then to $12.25 in May 2015, before increasing every year until they reach $15.00 in 2018.

The vote […]

By | November 17th, 2014 ||

China: Harsher Personal And Corporate Penalties For Work Safety Accidents In China

China will impose harsher penalties on companies and their executives in order to prevent work safety accidents and to protect workers.

On 31 August 2014, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress approved the Amendments to the Work Safety Law which will come into effect on 1 December 2014 (the “Amendments”). The Amendments make more than 70 changes to the existing law with a view to:

improving accident prevention and emergency response systems;
enhancing law enforcement; […]

By | November 17th, 2014 ||