Tilleke & Gibbins employment specialists in Myanmar have contributed an updated Myanmar chapter to Employment and Employee Benefits Global Guide, a Thomson Reuters Practical Law online publication that provides an overview of employment and employee benefits in jurisdictions worldwide.

The Myanmar chapter was written by members of Tilleke & Gibbins’ Yangon office, including Yuwadee Thean-ngarm, director; Nwe Oo, senior associate; Sher Hann Chua, consultant; and Kyaw Min Tun, consultant.

The chapter covers a wide range of key employment topics, including employment status, background checks, regulation of the employment relationship, minimum wage, working hours and holidays, illness and injury of employees, discrimination and harassment, termination of employment, resolution of employer-employee disputes, redundancy/layoffs, employee representation and consultation, business transfer and insolvency, employee relocation, health and safety obligations, taxation of employment income, intellectual property issues, and more.

Practical Law, produced by Thomson Reuters, is the world’s leading legal resource for business lawyers, publishing a huge range of guides for hundreds of jurisdictions and practice areas. The Employment and Employee Benefits Global Guide covers 46 jurisdiction around the world, with Tilleke & Gibbins also providing the Vietnam chapter of the guide.

To view the latest version of the Myanmar chapter, please visit the Practical Law website.