In October 2018, the Benczkowski memorandum was published reconsidering the U.S. Department of Justice’s approach to the use of corporate monitors to ensure that monitorships will not impose unnecessary burdens on businesses. Yet since then, practice shows that 50% of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act corporate resolutions still result in monitorships.
Both employers and recruiters who place candidates with employers should note that, in the face of difficult labour market conditions arising from COVID-19 and the Circuit Breaker movement restrictions affecting the conduct of business, MOM continues policies to strengthen job opportunities for Singaporeans to ensure the foreign workforce complements, and not substitute, the local workforce.
Our Latin America Employment and Compensation team is pleased to provide you with this quick guide which includes six key topics when planning to reopen the workplace around 7 jurisdictions in Latin America.
In light of the global pandemic, governments across the globe are faced with urgent needs whose immediate coverage is a matter of life and death. Hence, these unusual and uncertain times call for rare and exceptional measures, and without much ado, governments around the globe have provided them.
The Office of the National Superintendent for Securities issued Notice No. DSNV/CJU/00520 of June 14, 2020, whereby it established the guidelines to continue the activities of the securities market, under the Easing Measures for the National Quarantine Plan (7+7) and the Constitutional State of Alarm generated by the COVID-19 pandemic (“Notice”).