This newsletter highlights key recent developments in China’s laws and regulations. Specifically, it focuses on the laws and regulations related to foreign investment, market access, foreign debt administration, data economy, privacy and cybersecurity, labor and employment, life sciences and healthcare, as well as other topics.
Social security contributions order for 2023 has been published
The order determines the maximum and minimum contribution bases and rates effective as of January 1, 2023. The maximum contribution base is set at €4,495.50 per month.
Directive on corporate sustainability reporting is published
The new EU legislation requires companies to report regularly on the effect of their activities on people and the environment.
How does the Government’s energy efficiency plan affect heating and air conditioning at companies? Questions from the labor point of view
Post from Garrigues' Labor blog.
Garrigues hires Carolina Camacho as partner to head the labor practice in Colombia
The firm continues to bolster its Latin American offering with the addition of a new partner, Carolina Camacho, who will take charge of the labor law department in Bogotá.
An equality plan, the best gift to celebrate International Women’s Day
Post from Garrigues' Labor blog.
Spanish Ministry of Work publishes Labor Inspection Authority’s Strategic Plan for 2021-2023
The plan addresses, across four key pillars, various measures in relation to inspection work, aimed at modernizing, updating and strengthening the inspection agency itself.
The common thread of the labor reform
Just as, thanks to Ariadne's thread, Theseus managed to find the way out of the labyrinth after having taken care of the Minotaur, we would need to identify a common thread, not just to get out, but simply to guide ourselves in the labyrinth that the processing/negotiation of the labor reform has become. The problem is that it is not easy to find this thread, in the generous hypothesis that it exists. But let us make an effort, searching not only in the proposed texts but also in the multiple statements, counter-statements, corrections and denials that adorn the debate.
