Brazil

Pay transparency

Brazil’s gender pay gap reporting rule is no longer “aspirational policy”

Supreme Court rules pay equity law constitutional, rendering it fully enforceable

Vogue

Disputes

Condé Nast settles with workers fired over viral HR confrontation

Three staffers will receive backpay and have their dismissals converted to resignations as one continues legal action

Joseph Turzi

Community

Hunton Andrews Kurth lures lateral from DLA Piper

Seasoned litigator and supply chain expert Joseph Turzi will add “thoughtful approach and deep experience”

Johnny Wang

Community

Enterprise in-houser joins Littler as shareholder

Risk expert and management trainer Johnny Wang is “deeply attuned to the most urgent issues” facing clients

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Spotlight Series

MGGL: Spotlight on Mexico

IEL Monitor contributors Marván, González Graf y González Larrazolo discuss how politics is driving compliance change in Mexico

Retirement

China issues new safeguards for growing cohort of “over-aged” workers

An estimated 120 million people may already be working past statutory retirement age

Working Time

Brazil’s lower house backs five-day workweek reform

Lawmakers approve plan to phase in a 40-hour week and two consecutive rest days

Artificial Intelligence

New York Times accused of unlawful AI monitoring of unionised workers

Union claims paper surveilled staff and withheld information on how the technology was deployed

Religion

“Pride-phobic” jobseeker loses religious and disability bias claims

Tribunal says the removal of LGBTQ symbols would have gone beyond what is reasonable to accommodate claimant’s beliefs

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