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From May, state aid (IMG, Ingreso Mínimo Garantizado, Minimum Income Guarantee) will be paid to employees earning the minimum salary in order to guarantee a net monthly income of CLP300,000...

6 April 2020

Germany: Berlin plans to increase short-time working allowance

Hubertus Heil, Germany’s employment and social affairs minister, has announced that he will open discussions with social partners on the level of compensation paid to people placed on...

3 April 2020

EU: European trade union federations issue joint recommendations to EWCs on “anticipating and managing the impact in multinational companies” of Covid-19

This list of joint recommendations, which were issued at the end of March by all of Europe’s trade union federations (Uni Europa, IndustriAll Europe, EPSU, EFFAT, ETF and EFBW), is aimed at staff...

3 April 2020

Brazil: government agrees to compensate workers placed on short-time working during health crisis

On Tuesday 1 April, Brazil’s economy ministry announced a series of emergency measures to protect jobs and wages during the Covid-19 health crisis (provisional measure no. 936). It sees the...

3 April 2020

United Kingdom: what companies are doing for their staff amid the coronavirus crisis

UK companies are finding themselves having to improvise in the face of the unprecedented Covid-19 health emergency, with some handing bonuses to overburdened staff and others opting to cut...

3 April 2020

Spain: Inditex keeps Zaragoza logistics centre up and running thanks to volunteer staff who will work two days

Trade unions and management of the main logistics centre of Spanish clothing giant Inditex, which owns Zara, have struck an agreement on how the site’s operations will be curtailed during the...

3 April 2020

France: crisis agreement struck at Renault includes solidarity mechanism to boost compensation during short-time working and prepares for resumption of activity

The CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO unions announced yesterday, on 1 April, that they are to sign a contract “of solidarity and for the future”, which guarantees 100% remuneration for employees placed on...

2 April 2020

EU: EU Commission seeks to mobilise €100 billion to support short-time working measures

After having adapted its budget and state aid rules, the European Commission is now proposing a ‘second wave’ of measures aimed at mitigating the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic...

2 April 2020

Poland: ‘Crisis Shield’ is definitively adopted

On 31 March 2020, Poland’s emergency ‘Crisis Shield’ law was published in the Official Journal. The law provides for a series of economic and social measures to deal with the consequences of the...

2 April 2020

Sodexo: launches a global employee support program with financing from senior group executives

In a press statement released on 02 April, French food services and facilities management company Sodexo announced, ‘Despite all our efforts, we know that this once-in-a-lifetime crisis currently...

2 April 2020

Chile: draft ‘Employment Protection’ bill finally adopted by parliament

In order to support companies and employees during the Covid-19 health crisis, the so-called ‘labour protection’ bill, submitted by government to the Senate last January, will be promulgated in...

2 April 2020

Argentina: job layoffs banned for 60 days

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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