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Myanmar: call to textile companies for action in the face of repression on workers opposing the military coup
Six weeks after Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown by the military, opposition to the coup is not weakening, in spite of increasingly harsh repressive action, which...
France: support measures extended to promote dual work-study recruitment and prolong a special workers’ purchasing power bonus (targeting ‘second line’ workers)
On 15 March, following the conclusion of a meeting with the social partners at the inter-professional level French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced several employment support measures which...
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16 March 2021
Ireland: SIPTU trade union lodges complaint with European Commission to pressure government to toughen law on European Works Councils
The complaint was first reported by our colleagues at the Irish trade publication IRN. Ireland’s Services Industrial Professional and Technical Union (SIPTU) has filed a complaint with the...
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16 March 2021
Italy: new agreement at TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) to speed up early retirements and facilitate generational renewal
On 08 March the TIM telecommunications group together with the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl, Uilcom and UGL Telecomunicazioni unions signed an agreement providing for 1,300 voluntary early retirements by...
16 March 2021
Germany: Verdi and Talanx unveil pioneering agreement on an equity-based company pension model with no return guarantee
On Thursday 11 March, the trade union Verdi and insurance group Talanx presented a collective agreement to set up a company pension model based on social partnership. Three years after a law...
15 March 2021
Italy: Bayer trials flexible arrangements for working time and location
From 1 April until the end of the year, staff at Bayer’s Milan headquarters will experience a “new way of working”, of which the key feature will be the possibility of alternating between working...
15 March 2021
Uber ordered to share with two UK drivers the data used as basis for blocking their accounts
On 11 March, the district court in Amsterdam – where Uber’s European headquarters is based – ruled that the tech giant must provide two British complainants, in the two months...
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15 March 2021
France: labour minister to adopt ordinance by end of April to establish representation for platform workers
A taskforce appointed in January this year, to define the way social dialogue for self-employed workers on digital job platforms and representation thereof should be conducted, has submitted a...
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12 March 2021
Spain: agreement recognizing the employee status of platform-based delivery workers (republication of an article published yesterday but not distributed due to technical issues)
On 11 March Spain’s Ministry of Labor announced an agreement had been secured with the social partners over a ‘Riders Law’ that frames the status of delivery riders working for digital platforms...
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12 March 2021
United Kingdom: companies invited to submit their annual modern slavery statement to a central website
On 11 March, the UK government unveiled an online registry where companies can file their annual modern slavery statement, if they so wish. As a reminder, since 2015, commercial organisations with...
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12 March 2021
Italy: an agreement paves the way for vaccinations in Lombardy’s industrial workplaces
On 10 March Italy’s Lombardy region together with the regional branch of the Confindustria employers’ organization and the national association of occupational physicians presented a...
12 March 2021
Great Britain: national collective redundancies, even if decided locally, must be subject to European Works Council information and consultation when at least two countries are concerned (CAC)
On 05 March the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) * issued a decision that included conclusions pertaining to European Works Councils (EWCs) and information and consultation requirements. In its...
11 March 2021
EU: MEPs advance on a future EU Directive on human rights related corporate due diligence
On 10 March the European Parliament adopted its draft report containing recommendations to the European Commission on corporate due diligence and accountabilit. The text marginally modifies the...
Germany: PepsiCo Deutschland signs a ‘Mobile Working’ company agreement
On 04 February 2021, US food giant PepsiCo’s German subsidiary, PepsiCo Deutschland, announced it had signed a teleworking ‘Mobile Working Policy’ agreement with its Works Council. The agreement...
10 March 2021
EU: a stand-by period is only considered working time in its entirety if during it the employer significantly constrains the worker’s ability to manage his/her free time
On 09 March the CJEU handed down two rulings affirming that a period of stand-by duty can constitute working time in its entirety only when the constraints imposed on the worker very significantly...
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10 March 2021
Great Britain: CIPD publishes an employers guide for the Covid-19 vaccination
On 15 February 2021 the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the leading professional association for human resource management professionals, published a guide for employers...
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9 March 2021
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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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