Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States are the nations involved.

For each country, national employment lawyers answer to 18 different questions about four main topics: remote work, the return to work and vaccinations, health, safety and wellbeing, and unions and work councils. The questions cover many aspects of each topic.

Talking about remote work, employers can find interesting summaries about laws and guidelines introduced by governments, what categories of worker they apply to, if they extend to “gig” workers and other independent contractors, key data protection risks associated with remote work and the limits on employer monitoring of worker activity in the context of a remote-work arrangement.

A different aspect of remote work is related to workers health and safety: what are the key health and safety considerations for employers? How has the pandemic impacted employers’ obligations vis-à-vis worker health and safety beyond the physical workplace? Do employer health and safety obligations differ between mobile workers and workers based primarily at home? To what extent are employers responsible for the mental health and wellbeing of workers who are working remotely? Do employees have a “right to disconnect” from work (and work-related devices) while working remotely? The answers to all these questions, in each jurisdiction, can be accessed by simply clicking on the country of interest to the employer.

Talking about the responses to the pandemic, lawyers try to explain if employers have a legal duty to provide covid-19safe working environments, if they can require or mandate that their workers receive a covid-19 vaccination and what options an employer has in the event an employee refuses to receive a covid-19 vaccination. Moreover, the tool examines the key privacy considerations employers face in relation to ascertaining and processing employee medical and vaccination information.