by Donovan & Ho (BD) | May 6, 2021 | Employment Law
Some organisations offer management trainee or graduate programmes as a structured route to nurture and develop the skills required for that industry. Candidates may be offered fixed term employment (throughout the period of the programme) and if they successfully...
by Donovan & Ho (BD) | Apr 28, 2021 | Employment Law
When the pandemic first hit in early 2020, the job market was hit: employers with a conservative outlook were looking to cost-cutting and retrenchment due to the uncertain economy. Some employers reconsidered new hires and retracted job offers. Do candidates have any...
by Donovan & Ho (BD) | Apr 26, 2021 | Employment Law
In advising employers about retrenchment, the usual advice is that there must be a “genuine redundancy”. There are many cases which explain what amounts to a genuine redundancy, and we won’t repeat the definitions here. However, many employers (and sometimes,...
by Donovan & Ho (BD) | Apr 12, 2021 | Employment Law
The doctrine of sovereign immunity or state immunity is a legal doctrine where one sovereign state cannot be sued before the courts of another sovereign state without its unequivocal consent. The rationale “par in parem non habet imperium” (equals have no sovereignty...
by Donovan & Ho (BD) | Apr 5, 2021 | Employment Law
In the realm of business and marketing, social media has become an essential means for companies to reach customers, network, and grow their brand. Social media can have a great influence over a company’s success, even to the extent of making or breaking it....
by Donovan & Ho (BD) | Apr 1, 2021 | Employment Law
The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the norms of court proceedings towards remote hearings using virtual platforms. To facilitate this, the Industrial Court has issued Practice Note 1 of 2021 which outlines how hearings and trials can be carried out with remote...
