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29/01/25
False medical certificate: stay alert!

The National Health Fund (Caisse Nationale de Santé) recently warned agains…

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12/12/24
Upcoming changes to Luxembourg’s minimum wage

The Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des Députés) unanimously adopted[1] Bill…

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Episode 6 - COVID-19 Webcast - CSSF Circular 20/740 on the Financial Crime, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-…

This is the sixth episode of our COVID-19 webcast series. In this episode Partner Mark Shaw wants to look at CSSF Circular 20/740, which was issu…

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Episode 5 - COVID-19 Webcast - Issues Associated with the BCP Remote Working

In this episode Partner, Mark Shaw is joined by George Ralph CITP, Managing Director of RFA. They focus on the issues associated with BCP remote worki…

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Episode 4 - COVID-19 Webcast - Temporary Changes to Luxembourg Company and Tax Law

In this episode Partner Mark Shaw wants look at Luxembourg company and tax law relief measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Special serie COVID-19 - n°6 Temporary adaptations to some employment laws

In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, most companies are currently facing unprecedented legal issues within their organisations. As a result, they …

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Episode 3 - COVID-19 Webcast - Legal & Regulatory Developments Coming from ESMA (Part 2 of 2)

Partner Mark Shaw wants to turn to the regulatory developments coming from European Securities and Markets Authority. In this episode he speaks on cal…

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Episode 2 - COVID-19 Webcast - Legal & Regulatory Developments Coming from ESMA (Part 1 of 2)

Partner Mark Shaw wants to turn to the regulatory developments coming from European Securities and Markets Authority. As there is a lot of ground to c…

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Episode 1 - COVID-19 Webcast - Legal & Regulatory Developments

Partner Mark Shaw wants to start with a summary of the legal and regulatory developments affecting the Luxembourg market coming from the CSSF.

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Yesterday (26 March), the Luxembourg Government adopted a draft law amending the Luxembourg income tax law so …

As the Covid-19 crisis unfolds, further to the declaration of the state of emergency on March 18, 2020, Luxembourg employers have many issues to handl…

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Special serie COVID-19 - n°1 Financial support for businesses: focus on short-time work (“chômage partiel”)

In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak, most companies are currently facing unprecedented legal issues within their organisations. As a result, they …

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COVID-19: Guidance for Employers on Short-Time Working Measures

On March 16, 2020, the Luxembourg Ministry of Health issued an order (the “Ministerial Order”- full original version in French available on this link)…

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CORONAVIRUS – How Should Luxembourg Employers Legally React?

As the Coronavirus continues to drastically spread across Europe, employers should react quickly and take adequate and necessary measures. We have ans…

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COVID-19: managing the risk of contamination in the workplace

While the World Health Organisation has just declared the COVID-19 epidemic a “pandemic”, with the virus having reached nearly 130,000 people since De…

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Coronavirus - key considerations for employers worldwide

The situation with Covid-19 (Coronavirus) is still developing and is being followed worldwide with great interest and obvious concern. In this briefin…

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Droits et obligations de l'employeur face au Coronavirus

De nombreux employeurs luxembourgeois n’ont pas attendu que soit déclaré le premier cas de coronavirus au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, ce week-end, pour…

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Index increase

Since 1 January 2020, the index applicable to employees' wages has been increased from 814,40. to 834,76. This results in a 2.5% raise of the gross sa…

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Protection of whistleblowers: What are the employer’s obligations?

As the new directive on whistleblowers must be transposed at the latest by 17 December 2021, employers should start thinking about how to implement th…

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Modification unilatérale contrat de travail (non) – demande en cessation – délégué du personnel – Compétence d…

Par requête déposée au greffe de la Cour d’appel à la date du 19 juillet 2018, A.) a relevé appel de l’ordonnance précitée et il demande à voir dire q…

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Ilo Violence and Harassment Convention, 2019 (No. 190)

On 21 June 2019, the International Labour Organization (“ILO”) adopted Convention No.190 concerning the elimination of violence and harassment in the …

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Licenciement avec effet immédiat - invocation dans le délai de 1 mois - licenciement abusif (oui).

Les faits et rétroactes de la présente affaire résultent à suffisance de droit du jugement du tribunal du travail, auquel il y a lieu de se rapporter.…

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Towards a single European market on private pensions - the Pan-European Personal Pension Product

Saving for retirement will soon be facilitated by a personal pension product with truly pan- European characteristics. On 25 July 2019, the Regulation…

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