Agenda

Discover Latest Updates On Employment Act To Avoid Employment Breach

• Learn the important changes on core provisions of the Employment Act that is relevant to your work or business
• Identify the new salary caps and payment schemes for employees
• Know the latest enhancements on the employment dispute resolution framework

Panel Discussion: Latest Employment Law Issues And How These Latest Updates Has Impacted The Employers

• Last April 2019, the latest changes to Singapore’s Employment Act took effect
• Discuss the positive and negative implications of the changes in the Employment Act to Employers

• Tripartite Guideline on Mandatory Retrenchment Notifications
• Handling Termination
• Dismissal and Due Inquiry
• Tripartite Guidelines on Termination and Dismissal

The Transfer Of Employment And Post Acquisition Integration: A Practical Perspective On Managing M&A Activity Across The Region

• Learn the correct grievance handling procedures which seek to ensure that employee grievances are responded to in a systematic, accessible, fair, confidential and non-arbitrary manner and the standards that the employers are required to comply with

Singapore HR Employment Law Roundtable Discussion

• Restrictive Covenants: when can it be considered reasonable? (Maria Crabb)
• Managing Disciplinary Procedures (Sarita Misir)
• Harassment at the Workplace (Nadia Moynihan)
• Singaporean First: Is the new Fair Consideration Framework beneficial to Singapore Labor Markets in the long run? (Daniel Soo)

• The international elements that corporate counsel need to be aware of in managing employment issues, including risks of different jurisdictions, and how corporate counsel can manage such risks.
• The tactics that employees may employ in high stakes disputes, especially those with reputational impact, and the strategies that corporate counsel can consider to counteract such tactics.
• Measures to manage disputes in a cost effective process whilst protecting the company’s reputation at the same time.

• Highlight Principles of Fair Employment practices
• Criteria on Consistent and Fair Selection of Employees
• Giving out fair disciplinary actions and Dismissals

Inclusion And Diversity

• Taking an expansive view of diversity in the workplace
• How to build diverse teams
• The role of leaders in driving inclusion and diversity

Managing A Global Workforce

• Highlighting pertinent and relevant Immigration Laws and Cases to Employee mobility and family migration
• What should an Employee do in case of conflict of employment laws between state of origin and the new state

• Highlighting the relevant legal principles and case studies to protect trade secrets
• Applicable provisions from Intellectual Property Law and issues on Data Privacy

Overview Of Latest Updates On Indonesia Employment Law For Foreign Investor / Business Operations

• Providing a summary of the laws regulating employment relationships, including redundancies and mass layoffs, and provides short overviews on competition law; data protection; and product liability and safety.

Panel Discussion: Managing Labor Issues During The M&A Process

• Strategies to ensure smooth transition of employees during a merger or acquisition process and avoid any unwanted disputes

• Discuss the practical issues in dealing with the disciplinary action at work.

The Importance Of Performing Labor Due Diligence Before Investing In Indonesia And Risks In Labor In Case Of Taking Over Existing Business In Indonesia Corporation

• Mandatory to have wage structure and scale, linked to other public services.
• How business must consider grade/s, position, employment, education, and competence of the employees when determining their wages;
• Wage formulation methods;
• How regional minimum wage and labor union may affect the determination of wage structure and scale;
• Sanctions.

Case Study Of Handling Mass Terminations Of Employment

• Know the proper approach in bringing labour disputes in international arbitration or litigation
• Tripartite Cooperation Institutions – Who are considered tripartite stakeholders?
• What is the difference of these institutions from a union?

• Employment disputes (Shaun)
• Regional Minimum Wage (Rio)
• Types of Employment / status of directors (Robertus)
• Mass Termination

• Updates on the necessary permits for Foreign workers
• Prohibited positions for Foreign workers
• When can there be non-permanent work agreements

• What are the risks involve as to termination of expatriates in Indonesia?
• Termination benefits
• How to address the alarming trend?

Latest Updates To Vietnam’s Employment And Its Effect On Employers

• Learn the newest updates on Vietnam’s labor laws and regulations and the recent trends and developments that molds the political landscape that involves labor
• What are prohibited acts?
• Working hours, Overtime Work, Leaves, and Holidays
• Working age
• Types of Labor contracts

Performing Labour Due Diligence Before Investing In Vietnam

• Identify key points on Vietnamese Employment law to prevent damaging implications and incurring huge liabilities during an acquisition

How To Craft Excellent Internal Labor Rules

• Learn the importance of internal labor laws in shaping the employees’ working environment
• Know the proper procedures and techniques to craft binding and effective internal labor rules

What New Investors Need To Know In Termination Process In Vietnam’s Pro-Employee Labour Regulations

• Learn the three modes to effect termination of an employee in Vietnam and the proper procedures and requirements to be fulfilled to avoid any labor disputes
• Case study on a foreign company in violating the rule of laying-off their employees

Post Termination Restrictive Contracts

Highlight the modes that the Employer can undertake to protect its rights after terminating employees: Non-solicitation clauses, Non-compete clauses, Confidentiality clauses and Garden leave

• What are conditions and critical issues?
• Common dispute in regards to salaries and bonuses?
• Is confidential and non-disclosure agreement enforceable and remedies can be applied in case of breach?

• Tips on how to process a worker’s permit without a hitch
• Exemptions to the worker’s permit

• Redundancy due to Restructuring (Michael Kuman Lee)
• Minimum wages (Thao)
• Employment Contracts Generally (Le Tuyen)
• Enhanced Criminal Liability for Unlawful Dismissals (Stephen)

Overview Of Thailand’s Employment Laws

• Learn how to draft valid employment contracts under Thai labor regulations
• Know the relevant provisions on employee’s working hours, wages, overtime work, and holidays

Latest Amendment On Thailand’s Labor Protection Act In Employees Protection

• Key changes on Thailand’s labour law in enhancing worker protection, improve working conditions and impose sanctions on employers who failed to comply
• How does this amendment affect employers from procedural to financial perspective

• Key sharing on a proper procedures on employment termination in Thailand
• Is there legal requirement to consider in large number of dismissals due to redundancies?
• What protection does employees entitled against an unfair or wrongful dismissal?
• What are the changes on Thai labour law in payment in lieu of notice following from an employment termination?

• Claiming Ownership of IP Created by Employees
• Retaining Ownership of IP for the Employer
• Preventing Employees from Infringing the Employer’s IP
• Avoiding Liability to Third Parties

Understanding The Latest Updates On The Statutory Severance Pay

• Latest Increment in Severance Pay
• Who are entitled of statutory severance pay in the new Labour Protection Act
• Discover incidents where employers are oblige to adhere severance pay
• Can company deny or dispute such sanction?

Roundtable Discussion On The Latest Employment Law Issues, Best Practice And Risk Management Strategies

• Termination
• Treatment of employees who are not directly employed (Shaun)
• Transfer of employees in M&A transactions (Threenuch)
• Reassignment
• Retrenchment

• Discover key details that HR should do to protect employees’ personal information such as employees’ email chat, internet usage, and personal identification
• Learn how to protect your data privacy rights as employees in a Thai workplace
• Can employer keep former employees’ information relating to the employer confidential after termination of employment?

• Highlighting pertinent and relevant International  Laws and Cases to Employee mobility and family migration
• What should an Employee do in case of conflict of employment laws between state of origin and the new state

• Types of restrictive covenants are recognized in Thailand
• Summary of the Thai Trade Secret Act
• Understand the three conditions to be eligible to legal protection of your trade secret
• Highlight remedies in case of trade secret infringement

• Know the difference between the two types of transfers
• Identify the duties the employer must fulfill before effecting both types of transfer
• Learn the rights of the employee that the employer must uphold during the transfer

Navigating Through Employment Regulations In Myanmar

• Understanding the legal framework of Myanmar’s labor laws and making it work to your advantage
• What may be included in Internal Workplace Regulations

Working In Myanmar: What Foreigners Need To Know Before Making The Move

• Insights on necessary requirements to obtain work permits and residential permits for foreign workers
• Identify limits for foreign workers under the Foreign Investment Law

• Identify the key areas to cover to ensure registration without a hitch:
• Social Security Board
• Penalty of Non-compliance

• Learn the key points to keep in mind prior hiring employees in Myanmar to avoid any unwanted misunderstandings or disputes
• Enhance skills to properly approach the hiring process
• Key lesson learnt from Hong Kong’s Fu Yuen Garment Factory in mishandling its employment procedures

• Highlight how Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Law protect laborers safety and create a secure working environment
• National OSH Council initiatives in setting up OSH committees at workplace
• Challenges in implementing new national OSH system and compliance

• Learn the key points to keep in mind in hiring, and dismissing, employees in Myanmar

• Explore Myanmar’s standard employment contract that it requires employment
• Know how to draft an employment contract that addresses your company’s needs while still being compliant to Myanmar’s Employment laws

• There are numerous special laws and conditions for workers in the special economic zone in Myanmar that do not apply to workers working outside of the SEZ.
• Learn the important points to keep in mind when working or hiring workers in the SEZ

• How can you let go of unproductive employees?
• Learn the proper procedures to deal with non-performing workers under the law

Roundtable Discussion On Latest Employment Law Issues, Best Practice And Risk Management Strategies

• Labour dispute settlement system (Suegene)