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France: social partners strike national cross-industry agreement on telework
Talks over a cross-industry framework agreement on telework - or remote working - in France finally reached a conclusion on Thursday 26 November, after a process sped up by the lockdown and the...
27 November 2020
China: the flip side of the recovery
China, a province of which was at the epicentre of the Covid-19 emergency, was officially speaking able to contain the pandemic as early as March. Although the economy did contract in the first...
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27 November 2020
France: the Court of Cassation simplifies the elements constituting co-employment thereby tightening the concept even further
On 25 November, and in response to a persistent problem facing the lower judiciary to comprehensively understand the criteria used to characterize the existence or not of a co-employment...
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26 November 2020
Great Britain: billions of pounds channeled towards protecting jobs in the face of Covid-19
On 25 September the UK government unveiled its latest Covid-combatting and post-Brexit budget intentions. Two key features of the spending review are the launch of a new ‘Restart’ scheme that aims...
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26 November 2020
Germany: trade unions are looking into their own digitalization
Germany's first trade union ‘hackathon’, called UnionHack, was held online on 20 and 21 November. UnionHack brought together hackers, IT developers and digital designers for a ‘programming...
25 November 2020
Malta: preparations being made for legislation on the ‘right to disconnect’
Malta is in line to be the next European country that legally recognises an employee’s ‘right to disconnect’. On 23 November, at a meeting with representatives of the General...
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25 November 2020
Italy: framework agreement at DHL Express defining salaries and working conditions in subcontracting activities
On 19 November, management at DHL Express Italy together with the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti trade unions signed a national framework agreement that aims to regulate abusive recourse to...
24 November 2020
Spain: court recognises right of single-parent families to combine maternity leave and second parent leave
The High Court of the Basque Country has allowed a single mother to take the periods of parental leave permitted by law – 16 weeks of maternity leave and 8 weeks of leave for the second...
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24 November 2020
Germany: a step closer to a mandatory quota for female executives at large companies
Following years of lively debate and a bill that was blocked by the conservatives at the start of this year, the government working group set up this summer to reach a compromise announced on...
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23 November 2020
France: an agreement at Thales on long-term short-time working arrangements
A negotiated company agreement is required in order to deploy long-term partial short-time working arrangements and access a salary subsidy scheme that has been set up to support companies forced...
23 November 2020
Poland: government proposes talks over a “social pact” with social partners
In its efforts to address the economic and social repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Polish government proposed on 20 November to negotiate a package of measures with social partners in...
23 November 2020
Italy: collective agreement renewed in telecommunications sector
On 12 November, social partners in Italy’s telecommunications sector signed a deal to renew their national collective agreement, which applies to some 130,000 workers. The new agreement takes...
20 November 2020
Ireland: bill tabled to establish right to disconnect and protect employees working remotely
Six deputies from the Irish Labour Party have tabled a bill that would introduce a right to disconnect – or “switch off” – for those working remotely. As the members point...
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20 November 2020
France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures
With more than 50% trade union representation, the signature of the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO trade unions validates Renault’s agreement on workforce reduction and skills transformation in the...
20 November 2020
France: Paris Court of Appeal confirms the suspension of the Veolia acquisition of Engie’s stake in Suez due to lack of information and consultation of Suez employee representation bodies
On 19 November a decision handed down by the Paris Court of Appeal in a dispute that pitted Suez works councils against those of Engie and Veolia, in the wake of the Veolia acquisition of Engie’s...
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19 November 2020
Italy: main national banking union FABI, attacks UniCredit’s remote working agreement with the EWC
According to Lando Maria Sileoni, Secretary General of FABI (autonomous federation of Italian bank workers) “UniCredit should share the guidelines on work for Italy with the Italian trade...
19 November 2020
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025