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Minister Damien English announces appointment of new Ministerial Panel of Adjudicators   The Minister for Business, Employment and Retail, Damien English TD, has today appointed an additional 17 members to the Ministerial Panel of Adjudicators under the Construction Contracts Act, 2013. On 7 March 2020, the Minister re-appointed 19 members of the previous panel who had re-applied to serve on the adjudication panel. This now brings the total composition of the panel to five barr...

Martyn Bomber Bradbury: While the PSA and CTU attack the Labour Government over freezing 100k gold plated bureaucrat wages, the big story last...

While the PSA and CTU attack the Labour Government over freezing 100k gold plated bureaucrat wages, the big story last week was the announcement of the Fair Pay Agreements which will effectively see universal union membership. The main reason why wages are so depressed in NZ can be traced back to the 1991 Independent Contracts Act which de-unionised the workforce and broke the back of the union movement. Barely 10% of the NZ workforce are in Unions and without their collective bargaining power,...

Oliver Hartwich: NZs labour markets have worked well, why overthrow them? 11 May, 2021 05:35 AM 7 minutes to read Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood. Photo / Mark Mitchell NZ Herald OPINION: The Prime Minister is delivering on her main promise. Before the 2017 election, Jacinda Ardern promised to lead a "transformational" government. But only now are we seeing what she meant. Ironically, the man whose support made Ardern Prime Minister in the first place later undermine...

COMMENT | How to manage vaccine liability in Malaysia A - COMMENT | Public confidence is crucial for the success of Malaysia’s Covid-19 immunisation programme. To build public confidence in the vaccine, we must answer the question of “what happens if there’s an adverse event from the vaccine?”. We would like to explain the situation and propose a framework to manage liability arising from the rare occasions of an adverse event. For a start, we would like to firmly state that the current...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Malaysian courts have recognised cryptocurrency as a security and a commodity. In the case of  Luno Pte Ltd & Another v Robert Ong Thien Cheng  (Civil Suit No. BA-B52NCVC-389-12/2017), the Shah Alam Sessions Court held that cryptocurrency falls within the ambit of "anything" under Section 73 of the Contracts Act 1950 ("CA 1950") as cryptocurrency is a form of commodity with an attached ...

Search Many Buy Now, Pay Later or BNPL Fintechs in Australia are Not Properly Regulated, which Poses Serious Risks, Industry Exec Claims Grant Halverson, CEO and MD at McLean Roche Pty Ltd, has noted that Fintech-related risk has increased dramatically this year and has been “aided by ‘free’ central bank money, exuberant VCs, private equity and run away share markets.” Zip will be raising as much as $150 million in capital to expand its operations globally. Many of these so-called BNPL...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On 8 December 2020, the Government published its first "Action Plan for Insurance Reform" in Ireland (the Action Plan). The publication of the Action Plan reinforces the Governments emphasis on insurance reform in its "Programme for Government – Our Share Future" (the Programme for Government) published in June 2020 (see our article here). The Action Plan is a product of the Cabinet Committ...