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This is an article describing employment based immigrant visas which are divided into five preference categories.

The article explains the prohibition on mandatory retirement for both employees and employers in Canada.

This article discusses the rights and responsibilities of employers in Canada in providing childcare to their employees.

This check card is a printable resource with key criteria for covered employers and eligible employees under the US Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Every now and then, a case comes along that shatters perceived wisdom and established practice. The “Woolsworths” case (as it has become known) is one of those cases. Up until this point, an employer embarking on a collective redundancy exercise could be fairly confident that the consultation obligations were triggered only if it proposed to dismiss 20 or more employees “at one establishment” within a 90-day period. For multiple site businesses, this threshold was usually applied to each place of work to give some flexibility before hitting this consultation obligation threshold. Breaking new ground, the EAT has now ruled that this approach is wrong. Read on to learn more.

Sample employee intellectual property assignment agreement.

This resource is a boilerplate "Love Contract" for employees of the same company who are involved in a personal relationship.

A review of the Mexican Department of Labor and Social Welfare's publishing of rules outlining an employer’s obligation to develop and implement detailed employee training
programs that will foster productivity.

The Pensions Regulator has published final versions of its new Codes of Practice on monitoring money purchase pension contributions and reporting late payments. The two Codes (there are parallel versions for trustees of occupational pension schemes and for insurers or other providers of personal pensions) are less prescriptive than was originally proposed. They now also include material on the responsibility of employers and members to check that contributions are paid correctly and on time.

This is an extensive sample contract focused on engineering and design services between two entities.