Gladys Ching, Managing Associate of our Hong Kong office, is speaking at the third session of the Ius Laboris APAC workforce restructuring series.
The session will provide practical guidance on how to manage restructurings effectively across mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea. The speakers will explore essential strategies, procedures, and legal requirements for redundancies, including cost considerations such as mandatory payments and common ex-gratia practices.
The discussion will also cover key developments impacting employers, as well as best practices and common pitfalls to avoid when implementing workforce change.
Agenda:
- Key strategies, procedures, and requirements for redundancies.
- The cost of redundancies, including mandatory payments and customary or necessary ex-gratia payments, and covering the impact of the MPF-offset abolition in Hong Kong.
- Union engagement requirements, including the impact of Korea’s new Yellow Envelope Act.
- Best practices and common pitfalls that can derail restructuring.
You may also join the first two sessions of the series, which cover Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India. For more details and to register, please visit this page.