Top 10 International Employment Law Issues in 2015
In his Employment Issues column, Philip M. Berkowitz writes: This past year brought to the fore some challenging international labor and employment law issues that are likely to grow in importance in 2015. Some of these issues became front-page headlines—the Sony Pictures data breach and the Volkswagen union drive in Tennessee, among others—while other developments illustrate the increasing strength of global unions and the ever-growing importance of corporate compliance.
January 07, 2015 at 09:08 PM
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This past year brought to the fore some challenging international labor and employment law issues that are likely to grow in importance in 2015. Some of these issues became front-page headlines—among them the recent Sony Pictures data breach, the Volkswagen union drive in Tennessee, and the Securities and Exchange Commission's award of $30 million to an overseas whistleblower.
Other developments illustrate the increasing strength of global unions and the ever-growing importance of corporate compliance. The continuing importance and expansion of these issues highlight their increased complexity and correspondingly increasing challenges for multinational employers (MNEs).
This column compiles and describes, with varying degrees of specificity, what appear, to this subjective eye, to be the top 10 global employment law issues facing employers in 2015. They are listed in reverse order, as any top-10 list worth its salt should be.
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