The April newsletter is focused on Spring cleaning – making sure your global payroll and compliance is in order, getting ready for GDPR, and managing your global workforce.

Making enhancements to your systems and processes, ensuring compliance with new regulations, and understanding global labor laws are a great way to start your Spring quarter!

Does your Global Payroll need a Spring Cleaning? 

Managing daily operations for a global business is challenging, and there’s rarely time to evaluate processes or make changes when things aren’t broken. But what if there’s a better way to manage your global payroll or employees overseas? Just like most of our homes, our global operations could also use a spring cleaning. Here’s a top 5 list to help you get your Spring cleaning started: READ MORE

You’re Fired!

While that may have been an effective catchphrase of a certain reality show, the lack of at-will employment laws outside the U.S. makes it significantly more complicated to process involuntary terminations in other countries.

Labor laws are usually more protective of employee rights and impose several rules and procedural mandates on the employer in order to ensure a fair and just separation process. The basic considerations when you need to let someone go in an office outside the U.S. are: Termination Process and Fair Selection; Proper Notice Period; and Calculation of Severance Pay and other Statutory awards.  READ MORE

GDPR is Here – Is your Global Business Prepared?

GDPR is going into effect in less than 1 month. Businesses all over the world have been trying to figure out what changes need to be made to systems and processes to ensure compliance, while legal departments everywhere are creating language for opt out messaging and data subject rights. So when the clock strikes midnight on May 24th, will you be ready?  READ MORE