Just as buying a home is a major investment for the average person, buying business property is a major investment for a company. Property transactions take a great deal of time and money to complete, and require the buyer to take the utmost care not to do the equivalent of stepping on a rake. This Read more
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This current year brought about certain mitigations for employers that employ foreigners in Estonia as well as for employees that are foreign nationals. In addition to so called administration-practical mitigations, substantial rules have also changed. For example, additional grounds were added on January 1, 2016 for employment of foreigners in certain cases under more favorable Read more
In the general process of liberalizing the regulations concerning Estonian labour market and the employment of employees (aliens) coming from the third countries (i.e. outside the European Union) in Estonia, a possibility will be added by the amendments to the Aliens Act (AA) since the beginning of 2016 that aliens can also work in Estonia Read more
Several international corporations have established branches in Estonia and the number of such branches is expected to grow in the future. Therefore it is apparent that the matters of applying the Estonian labour law to alien employees need to be explained in a short format. Read more
On 5 November 2012 the Estonian Supreme Court adopted a judgement which summarises that if the principles of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) have been significantly violated upon granting a concession, then the nullity of the concession contract can be identified even if the Public Procurement Act (PPA) does not Read more
On July 1, 2012 a number of amendments to the Aliens Act took effect in Estonia. This has now created a situation where highly qualified foreigners, coming to work in Estonia from outside of the European Union (EU), can bring along their under-aged children, yet not the children’s other parent if that parent is not Read more
The amendments made to the Aliens Act entered into force on 19 June 2011. One of the amendments is the addition of a new legal basis for third-country nationals to work in Estonia – the European Union blue card, which is used in all European Union Member States except Denmark. The general bases and principles Read more