Poland: High Time For Flextime

A less rigid approach to scheduling of working time offers win/win solutions for employers and employees

Amendments to Poland’s Labor Code that went into effect on August 23, 2013, introduced important changes in the rules for scheduling and calculating employees’ working time.

The amending act includes provisions designed to counter the effects of the economic crisis and allow businesses in Poland to operate more competitively. Lawmakers also sought to make it easier to create new jobs, […]

By | May 1st, 2014 ||

Australia: Post employment restraints can be abroad and still upheld

It is often the perception of employers that post employment restraints are not an important aspect of employment contracts. Nothing could be further from the truth. Post employment restraints that restrict employees from undertaking work for clients whether personally or as employees of a third party are regularly upheld by courts.

Recently, a restraint that was put in place by an employer prohibiting an employee from working anywhere in Australia in their industry was upheld […]

By | April 30th, 2014 ||

Dismissal: This Really Is The Final Straw

What’s the “final straw”?
Where an employer commits a fundamental, breach of contract, an employee has the right to resign and claim constructive dismissal. For some years now it’s been a well-established legal principle that, in order to do this, the employee does not have to rely on a single event or incident. They can resign and claim constructive dismissal where the last in a series of acts or incidents is the final straw.
It can […]

By | April 28th, 2014 ||