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Finally the summer holiday period has arrived! It brings sun, sea, and swimming but also some tricky employment questions like whether an employer can in fact withdraw pre-approved holiday leave under Swedish law.

Limitations in hiring temporary workers, changes to the Social Security System (ZUS) and new occupational health and safety rules for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Sport in the UK has recently been under the spotlight in relation to allegations of child abuse, in particular in the context of allegations of historical abuse. This has rightly served to highlight the critical importance of sports bodies now having sufficiently robust child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures in place in order to seek to prevent abuse from happening in the first place and to respond effectively when concerns do arise.

Draft revised rules on security assessment on providing new internet business published

A recent Opinion from the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) points towards greater protection for workers who have not been given the right to take paid annual leave and could create significant liability for past holiday pay.

International law firm Bird & Bird today launches JudgmentDay, a first of its kind app designed to provide clients with timely access to selected UK intellectual property judgments.

Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection, Andrea Voßhoff, has given her view on data protection in digitised traffic systems with her “13 Recommendations” in relation to automated and connected cars. In a public presentation held at the symposium “Data protection in automated and connected cars” in Berlin on 1 June 2017, she stated that car users should have a “full control of the use of personalized vehicle data”

Appointing an appropriate expert is a key element in running a successful litigation strategy. An expert's function is to assist the court on the subject of his expertise. But what happens if a party wants to change its expert during the course of the proceedings, in light of negative judicial comment as to the experience and evidence of its current expert?

“My government will work to attract investment in infrastructure to support economic growth. Legislation will be introduced to ensure the United Kingdom remains a world leader in new industries, including electric cars and commercial satellites”.

Secondary legislation to implement the Protocol on Privileges and Immunities to the UPC Agreement and to give the UPC its legal personality in English law was laid before Parliament today.

International law firm Bird & Bird today launches JudgmentDay, a first of its kind app designed to provide clients with timely access to selected UK intellectual property judgments.

A cross border, cross practice-team at Bird & Bird has advised Capgemini in relation to its divestment of IBX Business Network to Tradeshift. Through the transaction IBX and Tradeshift create the world's largest business commerce platform, connecting in total almost 1,5 million companies and more than 500 global business customers.

Bird & Bird has advised the management team of Nordic online travel agent, Etraveli, in relation to the recent acquisition of the company by private equity investor CVC Capital Partners.

Finally the summer holiday period has arrived! It brings sun, sea, and swimming but also some tricky employment questions like whether an employer can in fact withdraw pre-approved holiday leave under Swedish law.

Limitations in hiring temporary workers, changes to the Social Security System (ZUS) and new occupational health and safety rules for pregnant and breastfeeding women

Sport in the UK has recently been under the spotlight in relation to allegations of child abuse, in particular in the context of allegations of historical abuse. This has rightly served to highlight the critical importance of sports bodies now having sufficiently robust child protection and safeguarding policies and procedures in place in order to seek to prevent abuse from happening in the first place and to respond effectively when concerns do arise.

The business world continues to face a series of challenges on several fronts. Energy price, political and financial fluctuations have resulted in interrupted projects, contract cancellations, debt restructuring and insolvency. Desperation ...

Please join us to hear about developments during the last 12 months. We will be joined by Trevor Hughes, President & CEO, IAPP, who will give an update on IAPP's perspectives and Amy Holcroft, Chief Privacy Officer, Hewlett Packard ...

Bird & Bird is delighted to invite you to a two part series of webinars focusing on legal staffing structures in Asia Pacific. This webinar invitation is for Part 1 of the series. 09.00 am (Thailand/ Indonesia/ Vietnam) 10.00 ...