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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 | March 2020
On February 29, 2020, the Investment Association published a press release announcing that 63 FTSE 350 companies have received letters from the Investment Association and Hampton-Alexander Review about the lack of gender diversity on their boards and executive committees. They have been asked to outline the action they are taking to ensure they meet the Hampton-Alexander targets of a minimum 33 per cent women on their boards and senior leadership teams by the end of 2020.
Companies with all-male executive committees have been contacted for the first time and the Investment Association notes that its IVIS service will continue to “red top” companies with one woman or less on the board, as well as companies with 20 per cent or less gender diversity on their board or in their senior leadership teams.
On March 3, 2020, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice issued a written statement on the report by the Law Commission on electronic execution of documents published in September 2019.
The written statement includes the following:
On February 6, 2020, the European Corporate Reporting Lab, established by the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG), published a report, “How to improve climate-related reporting – A summary of good practices from Europe and beyond.” This has been prepared by the European Lab Project Task Force on Climate-Related Reporting and it includes two supplements, Supplement 1: Climate-related reporting practices and Supplement 2: Scenario analysis practices.
The report followed a review of mainly European companies to primarily identify good reporting practices and to assess the level of maturity in the implementation of climate-related disclosures from both a mandatory (EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD) requirements) and a voluntary (Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations) perspective.
The report notes that climate-related financial disclosures are in an early implementation stage and there is room for improvement. As a result, the focus of the report is to illustrate good reporting examples and provide suggestions on how to generate and disclose information that is both useful for companies and relevant for users of financial reports.
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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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