Squire Patton Boggs’ Summer Associate Luis Ayala Gutierrez discusses recent guidance relating to the application of New Jersey’s employment discrimination law to remote workers. Although the pandemic is (mercifully) mostly behind us, many employers who implemented remote work arrangements as a pandemic measure have retained hybrid in-office/remote or fully remote workforce arrangements, providing employees with … Continue Reading
This is the second in our series of GCC updates, focusing on new developments in UAE immigration, personal data and Emiratisation rules.… Continue Reading
I will start this third part of our Working from Home series with a confession: I worked the first couple of weeks of lockdown from a small table dragged in from our balcony. Not because I don’t have a fully equipped and ergonomically approved home office, because I do. I just didn’t like the vibe … Continue Reading
It became increasingly clear over 2020 that the existing legislation on remote working was not fully up to the challenges faced by the Russian economy during the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the need of some businesses to place very large numbers of employees onto compulsory remote working arrangements at short notice. On 8 December, therefore, … Continue Reading
The world of work has remained broadly the same for the last 100 to 200 years – offices might have lost the wood panelling, trains become less smoky (inside and out!), top hats turned into bowler hats then no hats, beards have gone in, out, then back into fashion, but the central tenet remains – … Continue Reading
