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Italy: new collective agreement for Lamborghini provides for greater participation of staff representatives on Industry 4.0 and data collection
On 24 July 2019, the two main Italian union federations for metalworkers, FIOM-CGIL and FIM-CISL, signed a new collective agreement (for the period 2019-2022) at Lamborghini, the luxury automotive...
25 July 2019
Portugal: Regressar programme aims to encourage emigrants to return
The initiative dubbed Regressar seeks to make it easier for Portuguese people who left the country before 31 December 2015 – the date that marked the official end of the period of austerity...
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25 July 2019
Portugal: final adoption of Labor Code reform
On Friday 19 July Portugal’s National Assembly definitively adopted a series of amendments to the country’s Labor Code. While social collaboration initiated the reform process and several...
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24 July 2019
Germany: little uptake of the law on salary transparency
Germany’s law on remuneration transparency (c.f. article No. 10143) that came into force in July 2017 sought to narrow the country’s gender pay gap, which at 21%, is one of the highest in Europe...
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23 July 2019
Great Britain: two pieces of draft legislation to end the abusive use of confidentiality clauses and to better protect new parents
In the closing moments of Theresa May’s tenure as UK Prime Minister before her successor is announced on Tuesday 23 July and prior to her departure on Wednesday 24 July, the government has...
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23 July 2019
Poland: a legally binding opinion on types of employee data treatment that has to undergo an impact evaluation
In a legally binding opinion that was published in the Official Journal on 07 July 2019, the National Office for Private Data Protection (UODO) details the types data treatment that will now be...
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23 July 2019
France: Samsung indicted for misleading business practices violating labor rights
On 03 July 2019, two French activist groups — Sherpa and ActionAid France signaled that the he French subsidiary of the Korean electronics giant Samsung was indicted. According to their...
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22 July 2019
France: Teleperformance called on to comply with duty of vigilance legislation
In a statement on 18 July, international trade union federation UNI Global Union, together with the well-known French legal activist NGO, Sherpa (for the protection and defense of victims of...
United States: technical workers more willing to unionize than expected ?(Blind survey)
Thanks to its online surveys, the anonymous chat app for verified employees Blind, claim to be in touch with workers in the technical industry. On 15 July, it presented the results of a survey of...
22 July 2019
Spain: two agreements signed at Telefónica to guarantee right to disconnect and on how working time register will function
The CCOO and UGT trade unions and the management of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica have reached an agreement that will guarantee workers’ right to digitally disconnect and a second...
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19 July 2019
ING: three NGOs file complaint with Dutch contact point for the OECD, demanding that the bank ceases investment in the palm oil sector
On 5 July, environment-focused NGOs from three different countries – Milieudefensie (Netherlands), Sustainable Development Institute (Liberia) and Wahana lingkungan Hidup Indonesia –...
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19 July 2019
EU: mini portrait of incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, through 7 articles from Planet Labor
On 16 July 2019, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman to be elected president of the European Commission (see article n°11232). She will commence the role in November. A German politician...
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19 July 2019
Orange: global agreement on making gender equality a priority within the Orange group
On 17 July Orange together with the international services union federation Uni Global, and the Orange Union Alliance (that brings together union organizations represented within the Orange group...
18 July 2019
EU: Expert Group on European Works Councils put on hold until further notice
An Expert Group on European Works Councils had been the European Commissions’ compromise response to its assessment of the EWC Recast Directive (2009/38/EC); i.e. no new revisions to the text, but...
18 July 2019
Great Britain: a new single enforcement body for employment rights in the offing?
On 16 July the UK government launched a public consultation on the establishment of a new single enforcement body to ensure national minimum and legal wages are paid and that the right to paid...
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18 July 2019
France: Court of Cassation strengthens the validity of the tribunal compensation scale
One of the key measures of the recent labor reform (c.f. article No. 10330) was the compensation scale that sets ceiling and floor limits, which the labor tribunal can require employers to pay to...
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17 July 2019
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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...
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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
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...