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New European Rules on Data Protection – GDPR
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) comes into force on 25 May 2018. Does your business process any personal data such as names, birth dates, photos, email addresses, social network profiles, location details, computer IP addresses biometric or other sensitive data? If the answer is “YES”, GDPR compliance shall be
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Speech is silver, silence is golden, or: where are the limits to legitimate criticism of an employer?
Against the backdrop of a legal conflict over a claim for nullity of summary dismissal from employment, the Czech Supreme Court laid down the criteria for what constitutes legitimate criticism of an employer by an employee. Failure to observe these criteria may constitute a breach of the obligation never to
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Twenty + employees? From now on a Works Council is a must.
When the average number of employees is 20 or more, the Lithuanian Labour Code sets a duty to form a Works Council.This statutory rule does not apply when a trade union operates at the level of the employer and at least one-third of all employees belong to the union. The
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Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius: conference bleue study on “Access to unlicensed medicines” – did you know that …?
… although “compassionate use” programmes are in practice implemented in Lithuania, Lithuanian law does not offer a satisfactory legal basis for them but leaves many questions open, such as (i) what procedure should be followed for obtaining unlicensed medicines, or (ii) at what phase should a medicinal product be in
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How to establish a company in Slovakia
Brief overview of the characteristics of a Slovak LLC (spoločnosť s ručením obmedzeným, abbreviation: spol. s r.o. or s.r.o.). The most frequent company type in Slovakia is a limited liability company. It is largely popular especially because it is easy to form and requires only a