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Article 02/04/2020
Workplace Issues & COVID-19 in Asia Pacific
The World Organisation (WHO) has now upgraded the status of the Covid-19 outbreak from epidemic to pandemic. It is a global health threat and is causing unprecedented disruption.
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Article 02/04/2020
Workplace Issues & COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Australia
COVID-19 is rapidly encroaching on all facets of Australian life and business. Regrettably, known cases of COVID-19 in Australia are presently increasing. Businesses are naturally concerned about the health and safety of their workforce and ensuring ‘BAU’ as far as possible. This bulletin is intended to provide some clarity amongst the confusion for employers asking the question: what are my obligations under Australian employment law?
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Article 02/04/2020
Workplace Issues & COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Hong Kong
Hong Kong is fortunate to have a world class health system. Perhaps more importantly it has extensive experience and expertise in the management of epidemics of infectious diseases gained as a result of relatively recent outbreaks of SARS in 2003 and H1N1 (Swine flu) in 2009.
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Article 02/04/2020
Workplace Issues & COVID-19 in Asia Pacific: Singapore
On 7 February 2020, due to heightened risk caused by the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, the Singapore government raised the country’s outbreak alert level to Disease Outbreak Response System Condition (“DORSCON”) orange.
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Article 02/04/2020
Workplace Issues & COVID-19 in Asia-Pacific: Thailand
Currently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has spread across the world and the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that COVID-19 could be characterized as a pandemic (WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020). People and outbound travellers are recommended to closely monitor the situation. Moreover, the public must fully cooperate and act as the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) recommends for your safety and for the safety of others, and to decrease the negative social and economic impacts.
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Article 01/04/2020
First aid in the construction industry amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
The Prime Minister’s announcement on 23 March that everybody in the UK bar key workers must stay at home apart from essential travel, and that we must social distance so that we are two metres apart at all times, has had and will continue to have serious implications for UK businesses and there was and still remains some confusion about how the government’s advice applies to the construction sector.
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Article 01/04/2020
The UK’s environmental policy and legal landscape post-Brexit (April 2020 update)
Boris Johnson’s “oven ready” deal to begin withdrawing the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU) received royal accent on 23 January 2020, following his success in the December 2019 General Election.
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Article 01/04/2020
COVID-19: electronically signing documents in the new world of remote working
As we move into the new world of remote working as a result of COVID-19, businesses are forced to get up to speed much more quickly on the questions of whether and, if so, how they can legally execute documents using electronic signatures.
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Article 01/04/2020
Health and safety roundup: COVID-19 edition - April 2020
We have taken a look at some of the hot topics emerging in health and safety over recent months and interesting recent developments in the area.
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Case review 01/04/2020
Whose law is it anyway?
In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has determined that on the proper construction of an agreement, there was an express choice of English law governing the arbitration despite an arbitration clause stipulating Paris as the seat of arbitration.