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Legal pitfalls for Hong Kong HR departments to look out for in 2017
By Anita Lam Legal Case studies for employers
Career Advice
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Case Study
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HR
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Legal pitfalls
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employment-law
With the New Year well under way, now is a prime time to focus on key employment-law developments and identify ......
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Swiss voters reject minimum wage, fighter jets
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Switzerland
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Minimum Wage
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fighter jets
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Swiss Air Force
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voting
Swiss voters rejected a plan Sunday to create the world’s highest minimum wage and spurned a request to outfit the Swiss Air Force with 22 new fighter jets.
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Help wanted
By Wong Yat-hei Featured stories and job trends
Food and Beverage
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Food & Beverage
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Labour Shortage
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Work Hours
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Census and Statistics Department
Wong Yat-hei takes up the skills and pay mismatch plaguing HK’s labour market.
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Diligent employers need full picture of part-time work
By Contributor Legal Case studies for employers
part-time
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part-time employment
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Part-time Work
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part-time jobs
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Flexible Work Hours
In Hong Kong, although many families employ migrant domestic workers to assist at home, some employees – most commonly, women – prefer, or feel pressure, to leave the workforce to attend to their families, writes Fiona Loughrey and Sarah Berkeley.
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Saudi sets rights for maids, bans Ethiopians
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Saudi Arabia
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Minimum Wage
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Foreign Domestic Worker
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Maid
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Domestic Worker
Aimed at protecting foreign domestic workers, new Saudi Arabian rules require employers to provide maids with suitable accommodations, pay them the agreed monthly salary promptly and give them a day off each week, among other benefits. Meanwhile, kingdom bans Ethiopian workers from entering the country following reports of crimes against children committed by maids from the African nation
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‘No work’ jobs cast shadow over UK labour market
By Agencies Job Market Trend Report
Pay
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Britain
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UK
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Minimum Wage
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Office for National Statistics (ONS)
1 in 5 jobs created since 2008 on ‘zero hours’ terms, no guarantee of pay and work.
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