Global HR

The traditional Japanese idea of “lifetime employment”, with a full-time employee working for the same employer until retirement, has been...

What should an employer do if a third party objects to an employee wearing religious dress while working on the...

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has changed the way society at large considers, prepares, plans and responds to health...

Are you guilty of judging someone by their accent? This is just another form of unconscious bias, argues Snéha Khilay,...

Do blue-collar and white-collar workers have to be paid at different intervals? Is it mandatory to pay Mexican employees a...

Anyone thinking that the UK’s upcoming grandparental leave is unnecessary meddling by law-makers should look beyond these shores at the...

Most HR professionals would argue that global mobility adds value to an organisation and individual careers, but how can they...

Former City Link employees in Northern Ireland have been awarded protective awards of 90 days’ pay over the company’s failure...

Spotify, the Swedish music streaming company, has announced it will offer all staff six months’ parental leave on full pay....

Employers in Puerto Rico must take account of both US federal and Puerto Rico labour law. This dual legal system...

Austria offers its citizens some of the most generous holiday entitlements in the world, with some staff entitled to as...

For HR professionals identifying viable non-US citizen candidates for hire in the US, investigating visa eligibility is mandatory prior to...

Instances of global relocation are on the rise, and organisations struggle to contain costs. A cloud-based system could help managers...

As businesses become more international, so do employees’ roles, and it is not always clear when global workers have UK...

Chile is host to many multinational businesses, and has one of the highest rates of working hours in the world....