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On 07 December an agreement between Vodafone Italia and the trade unions for staff vocational retraining received the green light to benefit from the ‘Nuove Competenze’ (New Skills) fund set up by...

10 December 2020

Great Britain: Just Eat shakes up the gig economy by offering its drivers an hourly wage

After recently adopting a similar approach in other European countries, the mobile app-based home food delivery giant Just Eat is starting to end its practice of paying per completed job. This gig...

10 December 2020

Mexico: government rows back on banning the practice of employee outsourcing

On 09 December, and less than a month after submitting a bill to Mexico’s Parliament that would prohibit the practice of outsourcing workers (c.f. article No.12224), which is largely implemented...

10 December 2020

Belgium: initial results from the social elections

On 09 December, Belgium’s Employment Ministry presented provisional results (here in French) from the elections for employee representatives on the Committees for Prevention and Protection...

9 December 2020

EU: hospitality sector social partners call for massive support from EU Institutions and Member States to save the sector and preserve employment

Upon the closure of European Hospitality Sector social dialogue committee meeting held in November, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, and HOTREC, the...

9 December 2020

EU: social partners in the temporary agency work sector call for an extension of existing social innovation schemes for temporary workers

On 01 December a joint declaration was signed by the World Employment Confederation-Europe (employers) and UNI-Europa (trade unions), and concluded a two-year project on social innovation in the...

9 December 2020

EU: telecom sector social partners affirm social dialogue as key to developing ethical and trustworthy AI

On 30 November, the European telecommunications sector’s social partners (ETNO – employers & Uni Europa trade unions) signed a Joint Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which emphasizes...

8 December 2020

EU: Ceemet and IndustriAll Europe joint position affirms the need for strong and autonomous social partners in managing digital transformation

In their 09 November joint position on "The impact of digitalisation on the world of work in the MET industries", the European social partners in the metal, engineering, and technology-based...

8 December 2020

EU: CJEU dismisses appeals by Hungary and Poland to annul the directive strengthening posted workers’ rights

Hungary and Poland have failed in their attempt to derail Directive (EU) 2018/957, which amends and strengthens Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the...

8 December 2020

EU: Parliament’s Employment Committee adopts resolution on the right to disconnect

A resolution for a right to disconnect, which was proposed in July by the Maltese MEP Alex Saliba, was adopted on 1 December by MEPs in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social...

7 December 2020

Spain: debate over four-day week reignited

Following comments from Spain’s deputy prime minister Pablo Iglesias, who announced that the possibility of reducing working time was already “being discussed with social...

7 December 2020

Axa: charter signed with EWC on global health and well-being programme

On 18 November, Thomas Buberl, chief executive of French insurance group Axa, and Hedi Ben Sedrine, secretary of the Axa European Works Council, signed a charter on the group’s global health and...

4 December 2020

United States: NLRB challenges the dismissal of two Google employees, in the name of the law that protects their right to organise collectively

The US National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against tech giant Google. According to lawyers of the federal agency in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley firm violated labour law when...

4 December 2020

EU: Council ministers call on the Commission to adopt a regulation on human rights related corporate due diligence obligations

In the conclusions of its 01 December meeting devoted to decent work, the Council of European Labor Ministers gave their respective Member State’s support to initiatives announced by the EU...

2 December 2020

Unilever 4-day working week trial in New Zealand

From 07 December and for a one-year trail period, 81 employees working in sales, distribution and marketing roles at the Unilever food giant in New Zealand will be working in the office for 4 days...

2 December 2020

France: definitive adoption of the 28-day paternity leave

On 30 November, France’s National Assembly definitively adopted the Social Security Financing Law, which is applicable for children born from July 1, 2021, and extends paternity leave from...

1 December 2020

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The news. On 6 January 2026, bioMérieux—an in vitro diagnostics specialist employing 4,400 people in France—signed a new four-year agreement “relating to the employment...

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