by DNH (BD) | Jun 15, 2021 | Employment Law
The COVID-19 outbreak has seen many businesses shuttered, as employers and employees continue to suffer the economic impact of the pandemic. In one of the first few decisions relating to closure of business arising from the COVID-19 outbreak, the Industrial Court in...
by DNH (BD) | May 17, 2021 | Employment Law
Annual leave is paid time off, and is often on an accrued basis. This means that the number of leave available to be applied by an employee must be earned based on the days in the year he has worked. Sometimes, this annual leave is not used by the employee, and...
by DNH (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 DNH (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 DNH (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 DNH (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...
