Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Introduction
Welcome to the latest edition of the McDermott Will & Emery Global Employment Law Update. The purpose of this publication is to provide you with concise summaries of many of the laws and court decisions from 2020 that significantly affect employers and employees all over the world. No publication has ever captured all new employment law developments from every single country. However, our effort to create the most comprehensive global employment update ever assembled has resulted in updates from 53 countries.
Many of the updates presented in this publication describe changes in the law that are well known to lawyers and human resources professionals from those countries, but are lesser known in other parts of the world. Our aim is to provide you and your colleagues with a useful reference guide to significant changes in employment law all across the globe. Furthermore, we hope this guide and other specially designed products we crea
On this day: 7 years on, we give thanks for ‘No to Named Persons’
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Seven years ago, on 9 June 2014, the No to Named Persons (NO2NP) campaign was launched at the Macdonald Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh.
Over 200 people came to hear speakers from social work, medicine, academia and politics highlight the dangers of the new named person legislation voted through by MSPs the previous February.
A mandatory state guardian was to be imposed on every family in Scotland to “safeguard” the “wellbeing” of all children under the age of 18. State intervention could happen when “any concern” about a child’s “wellbeing” was raised (“wellbeing” was eventually defined as “happiness”).