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On 25 February 2023, Austria’s Whistleblower Protection Act (Act) entered into force. The Act transposes the EU Whistleblowing Directive...
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This time last year we analysed the UK Government’s annual Life Sciences Competitiveness Indicators (LSCIs) report alongside the MHRA’s...
It is generally acknowledged that the Netherlands is a popular forum for various types of class actions. As of 25 June 2023, the...
Regulators and standard-setters, domestic and international, are worrying about the potential for investment funds to pose risks to...
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If we thought that in Spain there would be no further surprises for employment lawyers this legislative term, we were wrong! Last week,...
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For some time, Government figures have increasingly been raising the role of pension schemes as investors in connection with the wider...
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It has been a while since the CESR guidelines on “Understanding the definition of advice under MiFID” were published. To be precise, 13...
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The European Commission recently introduced a new package of anti-corruption measures, which it refers to as ‘milestone in the fight...
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We are considering employers of record (EoRs) in our Worklife 2.0 series (see our previous blog posts here, here, here, here and here)....
In the important judgment in Philipp v Barclays Bank plc handed down this week, the UK Supreme Court has rejected the extension of a...
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From July 2022, businesses were allowed, for the first time in decades, to use agency workers to replace striking employees. Yesterday,...
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On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (Commission) published the much-awaited final version of the Implementing Regulation on...