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A decree published on 31 March declared that Argentina’s government was banning jobs layoffs for the next 60 days. Already struggling after two straight years of recession, the economy is...

2 April 2020

Austria: social partner agreement for faster access to partial unemployment

On 01 April, the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) announced that they had reached an agreement “for maintaining company...

2 April 2020

Great Britain: Supreme Court rules that supermarket chain Morrisons is not responsible for the data leak by a ‘disgruntled’ former employee

On 01 April and following years of proceedings, the UK’s highest court ruled that the Morrisons supermarket chain was not vicariously liable for a web-based data leak of personal information for...

2 April 2020

France: another series of Labor Code emergency related ordinances to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic

On 01 April France’s Council of Ministers adopted a further five ordinances as applied by the Emergency Law (c.f. article No. 11749), which was enacted to empower the government to modify certain...

1 April 2020

Enel: trade unions and management set up a solidarity hours bank for employees who cannot telework

An agreement signed on 27 March to manage work over the next two months ‘equitably distributes the burden of significantly reduced work without increasing the burden on people’, underlined the...

1 April 2020

Enel: implements insurance cover for all staff globally who need Covid-19 related hospitalization

On 26 March 2020, Italian energy company, Enel Group announced an agreement was signed with the professional services and financial risk-mitigation firm Aon SpA to provide a “Covid-19...

1 April 2020

EU: European Commission puts unemployment reinsurance scheme on the table in a bid to support national partial-unemployment working schemes

Criticised for being slow to respond to the Coronavirus crisis, the European Commission has decided shift up gears. While the project has been under discussion for many years and was due to be the...

1 April 2020

Japan: ‘equal pay for equal work’ principle comes into effect

Coming into force on 01 April in Japan is an ‘equal pay for equal work’ principle that aims to narrow pay differentials between regular and irregular workers. This represents a fundamental...

1 April 2020

Chile: a national index for employment quality to be formulated

On 16 March Chile’s Labor Ministry together with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) signed a partnership agreement for an expert committee to be set up in the next few...

1 April 2020

ILO and Unicef formulate guidelines to help companies support families during the Covid-19 pandemic

The guidelines formulated by both the ILO and UNICEF and released on 30 March urge employers to consider the impact of decisions on workers’ families and to prioritise improved social protection...

31 March 2020

EU: the European Trade Union Confederation is calling on companies to refrain from shareholder dividend payments during the coronavirus pandemic

‘Trade unions are calling on banks and big business to do their bit to overcome the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis by suspending dividends payments and share buybacks,’ declared...

31 March 2020

France: Airbus agreement for making up unworked hours during its production suspension period

On 20 March the Airbus Group signed an agreement that was supplemented on 26 March with an addendum treating unworked time (hours and days) due to the coronavirus pandemic. The addendum sets out a...

31 March 2020

France: court decision interprets a clause of an EWC agreement providing for a minimum number of seats for non-French delegates

If a clause of an agreement establishing a European Works Council provides for a minimum representation of delegates from countries other than that of the parent company, does this imply that...

31 March 2020

Chile: promulgation of the ‘distance work and telework law’

More than eighteen months after its initial drafting, the coronavirus pandemic alongside the outlook for a serious nationwide economic and social crisis have provided the necessary impetus for the...

31 March 2020

France: temporary extension of short-time working measures

An ordinance to enact “emergency measures” related to short-time working, which was published in France’s official journal on 28 March (here), temporarily modifies the rules on how certain...

30 March 2020

Spain: government halts all non-essential activities and bans redundancies resulting from consequences of the pandemic

On 29 March the Spanish government put the country into “hibernation” through a decree that only allows essential activities to continue, so as to limit the movement of people and therefore the...

30 March 2020

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Italy: Deliveroo and Glovo targeted by justice over courier working conditions

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Valérie Decaux (La Poste): “Our older workers policy is based on individualisation to move beyond age-related-stigmatisation”

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On 26 February, the Danish government submitted a draft bill to transpose the Pay Transparency Directive for consultation until 27 March. The bill sets an implementation date of 1 January 2027...

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