Effective from 1 July 2022, the Norwegian Government amended the regulations on working from home, adopted in 2002, aiming to adjust it to modern working life and to make it easier for employers to manage employees who work from home.
On 19 July 2022, the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) stated that communicating an employee’s sensitive health data to other employees without their specific consent and including this data in a minute of a meeting is a violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
In Public Prosecutor v Manta Equipment (S) Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 157 (“Manta Equipment“), the High Court reviewed the sentencing framework with harsher penalties against employers who fail to ensure the health and safety of employees at work under the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 (WSHA).
On 19 July 2022, in the case Meda v. AutoZone, a Los Angeles-based California Court of Appeal set some guidance on how employers may comply with the State’s workplace seating requirement.
This decision stresses that whether the employer has “provided” a seat to employees raises a question requiring consideration of a variety of factors, such as distance from the seat to the workstation, employer notice that seats may be used and how often employees use them.
On 20 June 2022, Puerto Rico’s governor signed into law Act No. 41-2022 (the Act), amending and partially repealing the Labour Transformation and Flexibility Act (LTFA),
It aims to reincorporate statutory benefits and employee rights that were eliminated by LTFA, in many cases reversing the changes it had introduced.
On 9 September 2022, OECD released its annual Employment Outlook report, Building Back More Inclusive Labour Markets, with the latest data and analysis of the impact on employment of the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
It reviews the key labour market and social challenges for a more inclusive post-COVID‑19 recovery and examines the policies to address these and future challenges.
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