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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Will that be good optics if an international firm like Taylor Wessing,
> headquartered in a country with strong labour laws and trade unions
> billing its clients millions
and yet
> its tactless Singaporean office is relishing how it exploits its juniors for no pay, in BUSINESS TIMES, openly accessible for its client that just got billed millions in legal costs?
Hohoho. Scrimp on peanuts and you get a monkey deal.
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It is hardly surprising many international tie ups don't work. RHT and Taylor Wessing, Eversheds and Harry Elias to name a few. There were also some attempted tie ups in the earlier decades.
Culture fit is very important. Everyone who has worked in an intl firm knows that they are serious about stuff like diversity, wellness, fair work conditions. Basically "Western" values that we're not supposed to import into our little island paradise for fear of igniting culture wars.
Of course YMMV but the fact is that their home jurisdictions have non-discrimination and fair work laws hardcoded into their system.
The internationals must surely find our casual exploitation of juniors, overtly racism and low pay endemic in our local firms, utterly backwards and horrifying.