This article sets out recent employment law developments in 2017 and 2018 in Russia. New grounds for unscheduled checks by the State Labour Inspectorate On 11 January 2018 the Federal Law No. 502-FZ amending Article 360 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation (the ‘Law’) entered into force. The Law sets out the following new grounds for unscheduled checks by the State Labour Inspectorate:…
Russian courts are influenced by international labour standards, but, in practice have been reluctant to grant employees discrimination claims. However, they are now beginning to consider more cases of discrimination and are starting to be more inclined than in the past to uphold them. Background If an employee files a discrimination claim in Russia, what are their chances of prevailing? This is the question many…
The GDPR applies to the entities having establishments within the EU, as well as to those that do not have a physical presence in the EU where their processing activities, either as a data controller or processor, are related to the ofering of goods or services to data subjects in the EU, or to the monitoring of data subjects’ behaviour taking place within the EU….