What HR needs to know about secondment and permanent establishment
Permanent Establishment (PE) is widely used in the tax and finance professions but until recently was not used very often by HR and mobility practitioners. However,...
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Collecting Employees’ Fingerprint Data
The Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data recently found that collection of employees’ fingerprint data by their employer for the purpose of monitoring attendance was...
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ISACA—A Global Business-IT Alignment Professional Body—Expands Into China
The Hong Kong Chapter of ISACA, a leading global association of 86,000 information technology (IT) governance professionals, has expanded to include 1,700 members from...
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Discrimination against the ‘over-qualified’
High unemployment has put many people with high levels of education, trainings, skills and experience into the job market. It is important that HR...
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Extreme Risk Management
Depression, hyperinflation and excessive leverage are ranked as the top three risks that would have a high impact on global economic growth and asset...
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Business leaders remain cautious but are hopeful and open to change in the post-crisis economy
The worst of the economic crisis may be over, but the longer-term challenge is the creation of balanced and sustainable global economic growth when...
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Asian salary increases 40% lower since economic crisis
Hong Kong and Singapore forecasts drop significantly further than China Pay rises across Asia Pacific are down 40% from those predicted prior to the...
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Job market trends 2010
59.7% of respondents expected to receive both salary increments and annual bonuses, according to Ambition’s Job Market Trends and Salaries Report for 2010, focusing...
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2009 Standard of Living Survey
European cities dominate the top of the ranking for the best quality of living, according to a recent survey conducted by Mercer. Singapore leads...
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