A Milestone In Turkish Employment Law: Renewed Severance Compensation System

The Finance Minister of the Republic of Turkey has recently announced that the severance payment system, which is potentially the most controversial issue of recent history of Turkish employment law, is going to be structurally revised and implemented by the end of 2019. Not only has this official government announcement given a massive impetus to the final phase of these long-awaited, and much debated, revisions, but it has also re-ignited discussions on the ideal […]

By | June 4th, 2019 ||

Hunton Employment & Labor Prespective: Continued Employment Supports Consent To Arbitrate

Recently, the California Court of Appeals, Second District, in Diaz v. Sohnen Enterprises, 2019 S.O.S. 1722, ruled that an employee impliedly consents to an arbitration agreement by simply continuing to work, despite never signing the arbitration agreement and even outright rejecting it.

Prior to distributing arbitration agreements to its employees, Sohnen notified them that it was adopting a new dispute resolution policy requiring arbitration of all claims and specified that continued employment would constitute an […]

By | June 3rd, 2019 ||

Employment Law Essentials: 5 Lessons From May 2019

Gowling WLG’s experts bring you five significant employment law developments you should be aware of this month – what they are and how they might impact your business: Disability discrimination (reasonable adjustments and employer’s failure to follow its own stated policy), TUPE (on employer’s insolvency arrears of equal pay can be claimed from the NIF with liability for excess passing to transfer), Vicarious liability (employer not liable for injury at work’s party), Government resurrects […]

By | May 22nd, 2019 ||