Asia: Employment and HR

Victorian businesses must identify and manage psychosocial hazards in the workplace under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic) and associated regulations.

New NSW WHS laws require your business to assess and manage psychosocial risks created by AI and digital work systems, including workload, monitoring and decision-making tools.

Employers are increasingly using wellbeing‑monitoring tools to track the digital activity of employees, particularly in the financial services sector. This rise in so-called “bossware” raises concerns around workplace...

India's DPDP Rules 2025 operationalize the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, creating a balanced framework for privacy and data use. Notified on November 14, 2025, after extensive consultations, these rules emphasised citizens' rights alongside business compliance.

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 (the "POSH Act") represents a landmark initiative enacted to fill a legislative vacuum in safeguarding dignity and rights of persons in professional workplaces. The objective of the POSH Act is two-fold, providing redressal to women who are subject to harassment, and preventing and prohibiting harassment in the workplace.

In the earlier parts of this series, we delved into the "Why" (how proper processes protect employers and ensure fairness for employees) and the "How" (crafting court-proof charge sheets).

South Korea is quietly running one of the most aggressive whistleblower reward programs, and in 2024 and 2026, it removed the ceiling on what whistleblowers can earn. Established in 1951, Korea’s tax whistleblower framework predates every major U.S. whistleblower program by decades.

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Well-functioning audit committees approach whistleblower complaints not as compliance artifacts but governance signals. They deliberately expect complaints to surface uncomfortable truths, not be statistically managed.

Labour and Employment Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Bangladesh, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

On 4 December 2025, ASIC published Report 827, Insights from the ASIC Whistleblower Questionnaire: July 2024 to June 2025 (Report).

Fast forward 10 months: they now run a 20-member team across 3 cities, fully compliant, operationally efficient—and still don't have a registered entity. How? They chose a smarter India entry strategy.