Following the government’s recent announcement, Parliament has approved the removal of the prohibition on businesses using temporary workers to cover staff taking part in industrial action and increased the maximum amount of damages that a court can award against a trade union for unlawful strike action. These changes became effective on 21 July 2022.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Canada introduces an import ban on the trade of certain gold goods with Russia and designates 29 new individuals and 15 entities involved in disinformation activities on 11 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
The Partnership for Global Infrastructure Initiative (PGII) was launched in June 2022 at the G7 Summit in Germany. The PGII is a USD 600 billion lending initiative to fund infrastructure projects in the developing world, with a particular focus on Africa. One of the aims of the initiative is to help address the massive infrastructure investment gap in Africa.
Draft regulations that extend the ban on exclusivity clauses in employment contracts from those on zero-hours contracts to include those earning on or less than GBP 123 per week have been laid before Parliament.
In 2020, the European Commission began a review of the EU’s rules on blood, tissues and cells used for medical treatments and therapies. Now the Commission has published a draft legislative proposal to amend the rules. The proposal does not recommend a complete overhaul: the EU will not change its definitions of blood, tissue and cell products. Yet it does promise a significant update to the two Directives published in the early 2000s that continue to govern the use of BTC components in the EU. Most importantly, the proposed legislation would be packaged as a Regulation rather than a Directive, meaning it would have a direct effect in the Member States.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Canada Introduces Additional Sanctions with respect to Russia, Ukraine and Belarus on 4 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Poland plans temporary administration of sanctioned entities and asset takeovers (legislation update) on 5 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled UK introduces further sanctions against Belarus on 6 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled Japan introduces further sanctions against Russia on 7 July 2022. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.
An employment tribunal has held that a claimant’s belief in ethical veganism that extended to taking positive action to reduce or prevent the suffering of animals, which included criminal conduct such as trespassing on private property to expose and remove suffering animals, was not a protected philosophical belief under the Equality Act 2010.