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Suspension can be a very useful tool for employers. However, in certain circumstances it can amount to a breach of trust and confidence, which would then allow the suspended employee to resign and claim constructive unfair dismissal. The recent case...By: Dentons

The coronavirus outbreak which was first alerted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) by Chinese authorities on 31 December 2019 has since breached a lockdown of Wuhan city where it first emerged, rattled the world economy, rapidly spread across...By: Dentons

On 18 February 2020, the Council of Ministers approved the Royal Decree Law 4/2020 (hereinafter, “Royal Decree Law 4/2020”), of 18 February, (which has entered into force last 19 February 2020). The Royal Decree which repeals the objective dismissals...By: Dentons

The Covid-19 outbreak situation is rapidly developing and evolving. There have been further relevant developments since our previous article on Covid-19, China and Construction. First, Covid-19 has had direct impact not just on Chinese workers...By: Dentons

On 11 February 2020, the World Health Organisation renamed the virus COVID-19, (apparently in accordance with a protocol agreed with the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation and World Organisation for Animal Health) to avoid it being associated too...By: Dentons

The Ministry of Manpower has issued Ministerial Decision 47/2020 (the MD). The MD adds "sales representative/sales promoter" and "purchase representative" to the categories of jobs from which expatriates are banned (although an expatriate currently...By: Dentons

The new control mechanism on withholding taxes in private supply service agreements, recently introduced by Article 4 of the Tax Decree 2020 (Decree-Law no. 124 of October 26, 2019, converted into Law no. 157 of December 9, 2019), has been heavily...By: Dentons

Staff leasing agencies are not subject to the new obligations regarding withholding taxes for supply service agreements, while companies providing services of an intellectual nature, such as consultancy services, fall within the scope of the new...By: Dentons

Third reform within less than 3 years - On 30 January 2020, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (“Ministry”) published its Draft Act amending the Foreign Trade and Payments Act. Minister Peter Altmaier stated: "We want to...By: Dentons

Many still recall the SARS outbreak, which caused a slowdown in the economy and a plunge in the stock market, properties market and capital markets deal flow during that period. Years later, people would look back and regret not seizing the buying...By: Dentons