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Health Canada identifies lithium-ion batteries, infant bath seats, and water beads as hazards of concern
Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
United Kingdom | Publication | September 2023
On September 18, 2023, draft regulations were laid before Parliament which set out equality provisions applying to occupational pension schemes under the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010). They are made under the restatement powers in the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (REUL Act), which allows "secondary retained EU law" (including directly effective EU Treaty rights) to be restated in regulations and also allows a restatement to use different words or concepts from those used in the original law to resolve ambiguities.
After December 31, 2023, retained EU law will cease to have effect in domestic law. The Government has accepted the outcome of two judgments and is restating them in legislation to provide certainty:
Both changes will be effected under the draft Pensions Act 2004 and the Equality Act 2010 (Amendment) (Equal Treatment by Occupational Pension Schemes) Regulations 2023 and will come into force "immediately before the end of 2023".
However, the draft regulations do not cover the Bauer judgment which involved assessing a member’s compensation in relation to a complex “risk-of-poverty threshold”. This means the effect of the judgment will fall away for schemes with assessment dates on or after January 1, 2024. The Government is still considering options on how to address the effects of this judgment for assessment dates falling before the end of 2023.
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Health Canada has recently identified three new classes of products that pose a hazard of concern.
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An employer’s ability to ask for a sick note when an employee is absent from work due to illness is becoming increasingly curtailed across Canada.
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Over the past two years, Spain has significantly strengthened its foreign investment screening mechanism, and all acquisitions by foreign investors (as defined below) of a Spanish entity active in a strategic sector are subject to prior authorisation by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism (“MoICT”).
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