Category: Securities Laws

ECJ Confirms 25% Social Security Rule Must Use Worldwide Activity

Posted on by Jonathan Martin

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the 25% substantial activity test must be calculated using worldwide work activity, fundamentally changing how employers assess social security obligations for cross-border employees. This update introduces stricter, measurable criteria and may trigger changes to A1 certificates, contribution requirements, and employee coverage. Discover the practical impact and how employers can prepare. […]

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ECJ Confirms 25% Social Security Rule Must Use Worldwide Activity: What Your Clients Need to Know

Posted on by Jonathan Martin

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the 25% substantial activity test must be calculated using worldwide work activity, fundamentally changing how employers assess social security obligations for cross-border employees. This update introduces stricter, measurable criteria and may trigger changes to A1 certificates, contribution requirements and employee coverage. Discover the practical impact and how your clients can prepare. […]

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EU-US Privacy Shield rejected

Posted on by Guy Abbiss

In March 2016, the EU Commission issued a draft decision stating that the Privacy Shield agreement negotiated between US officials and the EU Commission in January 2016, as a replacement for the former Safe Harbor agreement, offered adequate protection for EU citizens’ personal data transferred to and processed in the US. […]

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What progress in replacing the Safe Harbor scheme?

Posted on by Abbiss Cadres

The Judicial Committee of the US Senate approved the Judicial Redress Act (JRA) on 28 January 2016 (symbolically, International Data Privacy Day) designed to remove one of the obstacles which led to the Court of Justice in the European Community (CJEU) declaring that Safe Harbor agreements are no longer lawful under EU law. […]

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ECHR finds surveillance of private communications at work does not infringe human rights

Posted on by David Widdowson

The much litigated issue of employers’ rights to review employees’ private communications during working hours, using company equipment, has come before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). […]

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Compensation & Benefits: Prospectus Directive

Posted on by Abbiss Cadres

In September 2009, the EU Commission proposed amendments to the current Prospectus Directive which would have extended the current exemption under the Directive to cover employee share schemes of all companies, including those not admitted to trading on an European Economic Area (EEA) “regulated market”. […]

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Compensation & Benefits: EU Commission proposes exempting all employee share schemes from the Prospectus Directive

Posted on by Abbiss Cadres

The proposal extends the current employee share schemes exemption to all companies even if they  are not listed on a regulated market in the EEA,  but it may take some time to come into force […]

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