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“AI and sustainability - cure or curse?”
While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
Global | Publication | September 2017
A useful tool to characterise working relationships
ContractorCheck gives organisations a quick insight into the law and an early risk indication as to whether or not they need legal advice, without incurring legal costs.
Across the globe, organisations use human resources under different contract types to perform business functions. Workers are typically hired as employees or engaged as independent contractors. ContractorCheck is an innovative tool designed to help organisations determine whether they could unwittingly face serious tax and legal implications by incorrectly classifying workers as independent contractors, when they should be employees.
This smart identification tool has been tailored to apply the key characterisation indicators across multiple jurisdictions. The tool has already been launched in Australia, Germany, Canada and the UK and has won a Legal Innovation Award. South Africa is the fifth jurisdiction to launch this service.
Whether a worker is a contractor or an employee remains a vexed question in South Africa. Getting this wrong could mean that the workers are reinstated with back pay or compensated for up to 12 months’ remuneration.
By completing this diagnostic, organisations will receive:
ContractorCheck is available at no cost to all organisations and interested parties and will be developed for additional regions in the coming months.
If you have any questions, please contact Jonathan Jones on +27 11 685 8914 or RSAcontractorcheck@nortonrosefulbright.com.
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While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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In this edition of Regulation Around the World we review recent steps that financial services regulatory authorities have taken as regards investment research.
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The proliferation of internet-enabled devices has allowed children to access the internet at an increasingly younger age, often sharing their personal data without fully appreciating the risks and consequences of doing so. Accordingly, organisations that collect children’s personal data online have a shared responsibility to ensure that such personal data is collected with the appropriate consent obtained and is adequately protected, and to allow children to safely participate in the online space.
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