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Paid parental leave: What advances are the EU Member States making? [data]
The EU’s 27 Member States have until 02 August to ensure their national legislation complies with the European Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers, and includes a period of paid...
26 July 2022
Spain: new measures for effective equality at work and to combat discrimination
Approved by the Spanish Parliament on 12 July 2022, Law 15/2022, the Integral Law for Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination places new obligations on employers requiring them to review their...
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26 July 2022
France : adoption of purchasing power measures for employees
Meeting in extraordinary session, a majority of the elected/re-elected members of the country’s National Assembly following President Macron recent loss of his absolute parliamentary power...
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26 July 2022
United Kingdom: Virgin Money to pay out £1,000 bonus to help staff cope with inflation
On 19 August, UK bank Virgin Money is to pay 78% of its staff a £1,000 (€1,175.31) bonus help them deal with the soaring cost of living. The 6,000 or so employees of the company set to...
25 July 2022
EU: unions call for directive on maximum working temperatures
After two workers died of heatstroke in Spain last week, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has today – on Monday 25 July – called on the European Commission to impose a...
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25 July 2022
China: government seeks to foster flexible jobs in platform economy
In recent months the Chinese government has sought to demonstrate that its efforts over the past two years to ensure closer financial and regulatory supervision of the country's platform economy...
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25 July 2022
Colombia: a permanent framework for telework
While at the end of June 2022 Colombia’s Covid-19 health emergency officially ended, on 18 July the government published a decree modifying the specific regime for telework in order to give it a...
22 July 2022
Great Britain: holiday pay for contract and temporary workers must use the same calculation method as for permanent employees
On 20 July, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the method of calculating holiday pay for a contract teacher should be similar to that used for permanent employees. This ground-breaking decision could...
22 July 2022
US federal investigations into working conditions at three Amazon warehouses
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agents are inspecting three Amazon sites located in New York, Orlando (Florida), and Chicago (Illinois, following a referral from the US...
22 July 2022
France: “Hybrid work requires us to redefine the meaning of coming to the office,” says Coralie Bianchi, deputy director of social affairs at Société Générale (interview)
The hybrid work agreement signed at French banking group Société Générale in January 2021, offering an average of two days of remote work per week to eligible employees, was applied in October of...
21 July 2022
Germany: government embarks on modernisation of immigration policy
In line with its programme for government, Germany's ruling coalition has started to unveil the broad outlines of its reforms to the right of asylum and economic immigration. The government's...
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21 July 2022
Italy: new collective agreement in electricity sector emphasises value of people
After six months of negotiations, social partners in Italy's electricity sector signed an agreement on 18 July that introduces a protocol on "the value of people in companies" into the national...
21 July 2022
EU: pact for skills signed in digital sector
An eleventh sectoral pact has been signed as part of the European Skills Agenda launched by the Commission (see articles n°12903 and n°12881), this time in the digital space. Despite the...
20 July 2022
Luxembourg: government postpones indexation of wages to price rises planned for July
As it looks to tackle rampant inflation, the government of Luxembourg has decided to pause the automatic mechanism to index wages against the cost of living. While Statec, the Grand Duchy’s...
20 July 2022
Italy: gender equality certification for companies created
One of the priorities of Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza – PNRR) is to reward the companies that perform best in terms of gender...
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20 July 2022
France: Bain & Company provides its consultants with 40 hours of climate training
Committed for several years to an eco-responsible approach, Bain & Company, the American management consulting company headquartered in Boston, is stepping this approach up a gear. Since the...
19 July 2022
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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Slovakia: 6% increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2027
The news. As Slovakia’s social partners failed to reach an agreement during tripartite negotiations, Labour Minister Erik Tomas has decided to increase the minimum wage by 6% from 1 January...
1 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026