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Following weeks of bitter negotiations between Mexico and the United States, negotiators have finally succeeded in releasing the paralysis surrounding ratification of the future USMCA free trade...

12 December 2019

Germany: the Saarland seeks to adopt new public procurement related legislation in a bid to strengthen the collective agreement system

Faced with the on-going decline in the number of companies operating under collective agreements within the Saarland, on 11 December 2019 Anke Rehlinger (SPD), the Minister for the State’s Economy...

12 December 2019

Italy: Milan Appeals Court argues that working on public holidays is not obligatory, even in the tourist sector

On 05 December, in an appeal hearing, the Milanese Tribunal confirmed an initial court decision from July 2018 that had ruled in favor of two female workers for the Autogrill group, who had...

12 December 2019

Italy: new themes starting to feature in collective bargaining

Employee involvement in work organization, competences and skills development, productivity bonuses in partial exchange for additional leave times, combatting sexual harassment, protecting the...

11 December 2019

France: Prime Minister unveils the government’s main pension reform measures

On 11 December amid widespread social unrest protesting the government’s prospective pension reforms inter alia, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, in a much anticipated address, detailed the...

11 December 2019

EU: European Commission presents its Green Deal that focuses on employment

Prior to her investiture, the President of the European Commission had announced her desire for the EU ‘to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050’. On the morning of 11...

11 December 2019

Belgium: insurance sector secures an agreement for 2019-2020 that focuses on purchasing power and job security

On 03 December, Belgium’s insurance sector federation Assuralia, together with the CGSLB, CNE-CSC and SETCa FGTB, trade unions agreed on a 2019-2020 sector agreement that impacts 23,000 employees...

10 December 2019

Germany: Employment Minister seeks to require company monitoring of environmental and social standards compliance along their supply chains

On 09 December, the German Employment and Social Affairs Employment Minister, Hubertus Heil (SPD), announced during an interview that he, along with his Economic Cooperation and Development...

10 December 2019

Poland: in a bid to better comprehend online platform working, Polish and German trade unions share their own specific practices

On 18 October Poland’s OPZZ trade union together with the Ebert Foundation (close to Germany’s Social-Democrat party) hosted a seminar aimed at exchanging information over online workers and...

10 December 2019

Germany: Verdi’s 2019 innovation barometer flags need for greater co-determination on issue of artificial intelligence

The innovation barometer has been published annually since 2005 by the services trade union Verdi and the Technical University of Munich. The most recent edition focuses on the impact of...

9 December 2019

United States: the value clash in the tech industry, a breeding ground for a new form of social activism

Alexander Colvin, dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, dissects the so-called “value clash” experienced by young workers in the high-tech industry and their...

9 December 2019

India: industrial relations reform bill welcomed by employers but criticised by unions

The labour code on industrial relations was finally brought before the Indian parliament on 29 November. The code forms part of a comprehensive labour reform pushed by Narendra Modi since he...

9 December 2019

Poland: guide published to help employers implement equality policies and combat discrimination

The Polish business organisation Lewiatan has recently published a guide entitled “Company of Equal Opportunities”. The guide seeks to help employers implement proper company equality policies. It...

6 December 2019

Italy: does the ‘permanent employment contract with rising levels of protection’ that was instituted by the Jobs Act discriminate in situations of collective dismissals?

At the end of November the Naples Appeals Court referred certain measures in the Jobs Act, to both the Italian Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. The issue lies...

6 December 2019

Switzerland: draft federal legislation en route for adoption that looks to offer caregivers two paid leave periods

On 04 December, Switzerland’s second legislature house, the Council of States, followed the example of its first, the National Council that on 23 September adopted draft legislation to...

5 December 2019

Germany: Bavaria Labor Tribunal rules that online platform workers are not employees

On 04 December, the Land of Bavaria’s Labor Tribunal in Munich delivered one of the first rulings on the legal status of online platform workers and deemed them not to hold employee worker status...

5 December 2019

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The hospitality sector (125,000 employees), one of Greece’s largest industries after retail, signed a new two-year collective agreement on 17 March. The text, effective from 1 April 2026...

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