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International trade unions are addressing the issue of remote work. On Wednesday 23 February, UNI Global Union, the international services sector trade union federation, published a set of...

26 February 2021

EU: trade unions and NGOs lobby to ensure European subsidies to agricultural firms help improve working conditions for workers in the sector

How could a common EU policy, which represents a third of the European budget, ignore the plight of workers to such an extent? That is the question posed by 300 signatories – including unions...

26 February 2021

EU: neutral dress code policies in the workplace should be able to distinguish between ‘discreet’ and ‘conspicuous’ religious signs (conclusions of the Advocate General of the CJEU)

The Court of justice of the European Union (CJEU) has previously ruled on the ban on wearing religious signs in the workplace and on its consistency with discrimination related legislation (c.f...

25 February 2021

Italy: Milan’s public prosecutor’s office orders 4 online platforms to hire more than 60,000 delivery personnel

The Milan public prosecutor’s office has decided to strike hard. Following an investigation that began in 2019 after a number of road traffic accidents involving bike delivery riders, the...

25 February 2021

Sweden: another step towards reforming employment termination legislation

Sweden’s government is taking another step towards significant reform of it ‘employment protection’ legislation. It has just set up a number of working groups to formulate details for a reform of...

25 February 2021

EU: European Commission launches its first phase consultation of social partners on platform workers

On 24 February and as part of its considerations on how best to improve working conditions for platform workers, the European Commission launched its first phase consultation of the European...

24 February 2021

Italy: only the occupational physician i.e. not the employer can collect employee vaccination information (Italian Data Protection Agency)

While getting inoculated against Covid-19 is not compulsory in Italy, an issue currently being debated among labor lawyers is whether or not employers can terminate the employment contract of...

24 February 2021

Great Britain: large companies given a 6-month delay for publishing their ‘gender pay gap’ data.

After the government’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) cancelled the mandatory publication of gender pay gap data by large companies for 2020 (c.f. article No.11757), due to the...

24 February 2021

Belgium: negotiations over a national inter-professional agreement continue to stall with a second day of trade union action on the cards

Amid difficult negotiations over the 2021-2022 national inter-professional agreement, Belgium’s social partners continue to lock horns over the calculated maximum allowed salary increase ceiling...

23 February 2021

Great Britain: employers can legally refuse to hire job candidates who have not had a Covid-19 vaccine

UK Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland has acknowledged that employers can legally insist that new employees are vaccinated against Covid-19. The legality of the ‘no jab no job’ clause...

23 February 2021

EU: IndustriAll Europe launches a campaign to reposition the worker’s choice at the heart of telework

23 February is the launch date for IndustriAll Europe’s ‘Telework: my right, my decision’ campaign, which is highlighting the need for telework to be regulated. The European...

23 February 2021

France: campaign for Covid-19 vaccines administered by occupational physicians to be launched shortly

France’s labour ministry has sent instructions to occupational health services (médecine du travail) as regards the implementation of the Covid-19 vaccination programme, the daily...

22 February 2021

Finland: parental leave reform announced to boost uptake by fathers

At a press conference held on 16 February, Finland’s Minister of Social Affairs and Health Aino-Kaisa Pekonen announced a reform of the country’s parental leave system, which would extend parental...

22 February 2021

Germany: labour minister plans to increase financial support for companies hiring apprentices

Hubertus Heil, Germany’s Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, of the SPD party, has said in an interview that many companies are reluctant to offer apprenticeship positions due to...

22 February 2021

United Kingdom: Supreme Court rules that Uber drivers are “workers”

After years of legal proceedings, the UK’s Supreme Court, the country’s highest court, ruled on 19 February that the drivers operating via the US application Uber should not be considered as...

19 February 2021

Spain: agreement in principle on Renault Spain’s new collective agreement

Management at Renault Spain together with the UGT, CCOO and SCP trade unions have reached a preliminary agreement on the content of the company's collective agreement for the period 2021-2024...

18 February 2021

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