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Germany: From 2017 employees must be registered online With effect from the turn of the year some reforms to the minimum wage apply: As of 01.01.2017 the minimum wage increases by 34 cents to 8.84 EUR. In addition, new regulations apply for registering foreign employees with the German authorities. From

Lithuania postpones new Labour Code until 1 July 2017. The new Lithuanian Labour Code (the “new LC”) is postponed for another half year, to 1 July 2017. The purpose of the postponement is to consider possible amendments to the new LC and other laws of a social model to balance

A new article about the Current Status of Commercial Arbitration in the Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, was published by bnt partner Theis Klauberg and legal assistant Maria Kekäläinen in Tidskrift 5-2016 (Finland). Commercial arbitration plays an increasingly important role in the Baltic States, but problems remain with regard to

Regulation of cross-border insolvency proceedings in Slovak law leaves several questions unanswered. The Supreme Court of the SR provided a partial solution when defining the relationship between main and secondary insolvency proceedings. The decision concerned a dispute regarding main insolvency proceedings in France and secondary proceedings in Slovakia. The trustee

Czech Republic: New rules concerning the proof of origin of assets are designed to increase treasury's revenues. On 1 December, the hotly debated act on the amendment of certain laws to do with the origin of assets (Act No. 321/2016 Coll.) came into force. The finance office thus gains a