UK’s NatWest Group will provide climate training to more than 16,000 employees by the end of 2024, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh Centre for Business, Climate Change and Sustainability.
Between January 2019 and June 2021, Just Economy and Labour Institute (JELI), with support from the International Development Research Center Canada (IDRC) conducted action-oriented research on platform-based care workers including domestic workers and massage therapists in Thailand.
A recent ruling from the Borgarting Court of Appeal has allowed dismissal by email upon delivery in the employee's mailbox to be accepted in some cases.
The decision is a clear exception to the general principle that employers must send dismissal notices to employees in person or by registered letter.
The report, published on 7 March 2022 by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), provides global overview of national laws and practices regarding care policies (maternity protection, paternity, parental and other care-related leave policies).
On 23 March 2022 the National Assembly's Standing Committee adopted Resolution No. 17 “on employees’ monthly, annual overtime hours in the context of COVID-19 prevention and socio-economic development”, aiming to facilitate socio-economic recovery and development from the pandemic.
It increased, until 31 December 2022, the maximum monthly overtime limit and relaxed the annual restrictions on overtime currently provided for in the 2019 Labour Code.
The report, published on 7 March 2022, aims to collect information about NDAs in order to provide a resource for policy-makers in their deliberations about any future regulation of the use of NDAs.
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