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British Columbia sick note restrictions now in force
As of November 12, 2025, British Columbia employers are prohibited from requesting sick notes for certain health-related employee absences.
Launch of Capital Markets Union (CMU) technical resource
Global | Publication | December 2015
Raising finance in Europe is changing. Our online technical resource ‘Capital Markets Union’ (CMU) is a complete client guide to the legal and practical measures that fall under the umbrella of the CMU.
The European Commission’s CMU initiative aims to unify capital markets across Europe’s 28 Member States in an effort to promote growth and investment. From now through 2019, the Commission will release a series of regulations and studies affecting every area of capital markets.
CMU will affect clients across the global with business interests in the European Union, including banks, funds, insurers, pensions, infrastructure projects, SMEs, credit rating agencies and multilateral development agencies.
The following resources will be updated as the CMU project develops:
- Prospectus Regulation proposal
- Private placements
- Venture capital
- SME finance
- Crowdfunding.
- Securitisation Regulation proposal
- STS securitisation practical guide
- Securitisation – risk retention Q&A
- Solvency II recalibration
- Infrastructure funds
- Non-bank lending
- Pensions
- Retail finance.
- Regulation of financial services
- Covered bonds
- Investment funds
- Derivatives, repos and securities lending
- Cross-border finance.
Recent publications
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Federal budget 2025: Updates for federally regulated employers
The federal government’s recently released Canada Strong Budget 2025 (Budget 2025) has proposed several measures with implications for federally regulated employers.
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Essential Corporate News – Week ending 14 November 2025
On 13 November 2025, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published its Annual Review of Corporate Governance Reporting. This analyses reporting trends and practices among 100 UK-listed companies against the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code (Code).
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