Death Threat By White Employees – EEOC Suit Settles For $50,000

We can report today on the settlement of an EEOC lawsuit which we announced was filed more than a year ago.   OnOctober 2, 2012, we commented that racial slurs and nooses had been the subjects of more than one of our recent blogs.  (See also our post of December 3, 2012).  The EEOC reported then that slurs and nooses became late-night death threats made against an employee by co-workers if he made any more racial harassment complaints against […]

By | January 31st, 2014 ||

Employees’ Non-Compete Agreements In Finland

An employee’s obligations towards his or her employer generally terminate when their employment relationship terminates, unless the parties specifically agree otherwise. For example, they may conclude a so-called non-compete agreement. Such an agreement may be made only for very weighty reasons that relate to an employer’s operations or an employee’s position. A non-compete agreement can be used to restrict an employee for entering into an employment contract with the employer’s competitor or from directly […]

By | January 30th, 2014 ||

United Kingdom: TUPE Reforms To Be Implemented In January 2014

The Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Amendment Regulations 2014 (‘2014 Regulations’) come into force on 31 January 2014 and will implement the reforms to TUPE.

BIS has published a revised guide to TUPE to take account of the changes made by the 2014 Regulations. The guide now also covers service provision changes, transfers in the public sector and pension rights on a TUPE transfer.
The final 2014 Regulations
The reforms to be implemented […]

By | January 28th, 2014 ||