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Germany: Google open to talks with IG Metall and YouTubers over the working conditions of the latter
In July of this year, the FairTube campaign was launched, through a partnership between IG Metall, the largest sector trade union in Europe, and the Youtubers Union, a Facebook group made up of...
28 August 2019
Germany: co-management boosted by presence of temporary workers (judgement)
On Tuesday 20 August, Germany’s Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof-BGH) published the reasons for its judgement handed down on 25 June 2019 (file n° Az. II ZB 21/18), when judges ruled in...
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27 August 2019
Argentina: the status of platform workers the subject of debate
The country is proving somewhat to be a test case for Latin America. At the start of the month, a judge in Buenos Aires ordered a halt to all home food delivery applications in the Argentine...
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27 August 2019
Italy: collective agreement for industry sector managers renewed
Confindustria, Italian employers’ federation, and Federmanager, the country’s federation of industry sector managers, signed a renewal of their collective agreement on 30 July, meaning...
27 August 2019
Great Britain: appeal court confirms that a company’s management may implement plans without waiting for the EWC’s opinion
In a judgement handed down on 31 July (here), the Employment Appeal Tribunal rejected the appeal from the European Works Council at Oracle, against an initial decision made on 12 February (see...
26 August 2019
Crédit Agricole: global framework agreement signed with UNI Global Union
On 31 July the French banking group signed with UNI Global Union, the international trade union federation of the private service sector, a global framework agreement covering basic labour rights...
26 August 2019
Italy: TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) and the trade unions sign two important agreements
Firstly, TIM, which is in the throes of significant reorganization in terms of its 5G service launch, signed a company agreement at the end of July 2019, some three years after group management...
26 August 2019
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
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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...
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31 October 2025
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
2 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026