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Is it legal for employers to hire only native speakers?
I recently learned that there are some companies (for instance, certain editing, writing, or translation services) that explicitly refuse to hire non-native English speakers for certain positions a ...
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UK: Is it legal to secretly audio record a meeting or a phone call? Is it possible to use such recording in court?
In the United Kingdom:
Is it legal to secretly audio record a meeting (in an office) or a phone call while being a participant?
Is it possible to use such recording as an evidence in court or ...
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Do employees have personal liability when working for a company that violates the GDPR?
I work for a company that doesn't take privacy laws very seriously. As far as I can tell, they're woefully unprepared for GDPR and don't seem to care very much.
My tasks mainly consist of software ...
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Can company's code of conduct influence what employees are doing outside of working hours if it doesn't create a conflict of interest?
In many companies nowadays we can find the following paragraph in their code of conduct:
Employees must, however, avoid acquiring any business interest or participating in any other activity outside ...
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Am I legally responsible for being a developer of a code, if my customer uses it illegally?
I am from an Europe country, I work online and get orders on freelancer websites.
Few months ago, I had a customer hiring me to do some Bitcoin-related coding, I'm one of their developers for 6-7 ...
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Is it illegal for an employer to give a job applicant an unfair advantage in the selection process?
Diana was invited to pre-employment test for a job. But it appeared that that the content of test was the same as last year, and she knew that content because of her friend who passed the same test ...
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Work-for-hire unpaid: who owns the IP?
Suppose X is a software developer, the only employee of sole proprietor Y.
The contract is oral, "build an app like (famous app), earn $wage per week". Laws breached by this are outside the ...
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Does the EU Blue Card allow to deliberately have 3 months of unemployment between jobs?
I'm from non-EU country and I'm getting a new permanent job in the Germany right now. The contract has the next paragraph:
§ 18 Post-Contractual Non-Competition/Contractual Penalty
(1) For a ...
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Hiring a UK resident and citizen to work remotely in a Finnish company (pre and post brexit)
Company A: a software development startup. Incorporated in Finland.
Person B: An UK resident and citizen
A is looking to employ B to work entirely remotely. Because of reasons, it is not possible ...
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Employee intimidation
A relative of mine has worked at a small company for the past 10 years as a senior design engineer.
The MD (and owner) of the company asked him to go and spend the day with another employee filling ...
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Do French labor laws allow for the firing of employees for scheduling disagreements?
I'm doing research on the effect of highly restrictive working conditions on poverty. More specifically, I'm investigating how a number of low-skill, shift-work jobs in the United States, like fast ...
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What are an employed/contracted software developer's responsibilities under the GDPR?
This is prompted by this question but that is rather complicated by the technical details. Suppose the following hypothetical:
Alice is a software developer for Bob Inc. perhaps as a normal employee, ...
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Working part of the year from Spain for a UK company, what are the implications?
I am an EU national based in the UK working for a British company. I would like to live and work remotely from Spain between 3 to 6 months per year. My current company told me they would not ...
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Would she be entitled to welfare benefits?
Say an Irish national resides in another country (Denmark) and looks for work and cannot find work in her profession. But instead, she finds a part-time job that is poorly paid and she is only working ...
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Can a Non-EU citizen who worked in a EU country with specific work permit have the right to apply to ECHR for workplace discrimination?
I am a citizen of Turkey, not of the EU. I worked in Ireland with a Critical Skills Employment Permit.
I sued my employer for Workplace Discrimination. I decided that the case was not dealt with ...
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