24 March, 2017
This month, we take a look at the topic of workplace health and safety and employer obligations in this space. One of the latest developments in the region is in South Korea, where proposed amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act are currently being considered by the National Assembly in response to a recent spate of incidents involving employers covering up industrial accidents.
The proposed amendments will target anyone who engages in covering up an industrial accident, as well as those who instigate or collude with them to cover up an industrial accident. To read more, click here.
Next, our compliance check considers workplace accident reporting requirements – as HR practitioners may be aware, employers, workplace occupiers and doctors in Singapore are required to report workplace incidents where an employee, a self-employed person or a member of the public dies, is injured or contracts a disease in certain circumstances. To check if your company is compliant, click here.
Over in Indonesia, we take a look at religious holiday allowances and Minister of Manpower Regulation No. 6 of 2016 issued last year on the issue. The regulation is an important one to note as it revoked and replaced the previous regulation on the topic issued in 1994. For a summary of what the regulation covers, click here.
Unions are becoming increasingly prevalent across Asia.
This month, as the first of a two-part series on this topic, we take a look at which aspects of the employment relationship unions may be involved in in Singapore, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China. For a handy table of the position in these jurisdictions, click here.
For further information, please contact:
Gareth Thomas, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
gareth.thomas@hsf.com
