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India: job offers are biased in favor of males
According to a recent World Bank survey, job offers in India are most often explicitly biased towards males together with on average better pay for men. A World Bank analysis examined 800,000 job...
30 May 2018
EDF: signs a new global CSR agreement
Thirteen years after its first global agreement (the first being signed in 2005 and subsequently renewed in 2009), France’s energy giant has re-engaged with the global union federations...
29 May 2018
Brazil: government sets new rules over ‘hours of service’ employment contracts
Created as part of the Labor law reform program that was approved in July 2017, occasional work, or ‘trabalho intermitente’ (c.f. article No.10312) enables employers to hire workers ‘by the hour’...
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29 May 2018
In brief, new European rules on posted workers have been definitively adopted
The European parliament has given the go ahead to what is effectively a compromise negotiated between the EU Member States (c.f. article No. 10610), and as such marks an end to the adoption...
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29 May 2018
Germany: almost a million employees have already taken advantage of early retirement at age 63
Revealed by the Blidzeitung publication and later confirmed by the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, latest data over take-up of retirement at age 63 has relaunched the fierce debate of...
28 May 2018
Finland: new legislative basis for zero hours employment contracts but with better conditions for those employed on them
Finland’s President has just promulgated several legislative amendments that will come into force on 01 June, which aim to better protect those working under variable time employment contracts.
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28 May 2018
News update as of May 25, 2018
Netherlands/ Trade union set up to get internet users paid for their (unpaid) work producing data. On Wednesday 23 May, a group of activists announced the launch of a trade union for 'data...
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25 May 2018
EU: European semester set to be more social
It has been a long time in coming. Since the 2014 announcement that European economic governance would be including social aspects it wasn’t until three years later at the end of 2017 that the...
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24 May 2018
In brief, Amazon signs its first collective agreement in Italy
In a press statement on 23 May 2018 (here) the international services union federation Uni Global announced that the first ever company agreement was signed with online retail giant Amazon. The...
24 May 2018
In brief, Uber is to propose social benefits cover for its independent workers across Europe
In a 23 May press statement platform-based taxi firm Uber announced it is to offer free insurance cover for its drivers including sickness, injury and maternity and paternity payments. It will...
24 May 2018
News update as of 23 May 2018
On the menu: in the US while the National Labor Relations Board has approved an IAM request for a unionisation vote to be held at Boeing, the Supreme Court has thwarted the NLRB's efforts for the...
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23 May 2018
Italy: inside the ‘government of change’ contract that has been agreed between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League
Although the make-up of Italy’s new coalition government (between two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League) still needs ironing out, the two parties have ratified the...
22 May 2018
Brazil: sharp dip in the number of collective agreements reached during first quarter of 2018
In the first quarter of 2018 in Brazil, the number of collective agreements that were approved was down 48% compared to the same period in 2017. The first quarter also saw a 29% dip in new...
22 May 2018
ILO: the transition to a Green Economy will generate more than sufficient number of jobs under the 2015 Paris Agreement’s 2-degree limit to global warming
On 18 May, the ILO launched their flagship World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) report focused on “Greening with Jobs”. The report finds that 24 million new jobs will be created globally by...
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22 May 2018
Germany: re-elected to the helm of the DGB, Reiner Hoffmann wants to “humanise” digital capitalism
At the national congress of the DGB, Germany's Trade Union Confederation, which took place from 13 to 17 May in Berlin, 400 delegates from the body’s eight member-unions spent time debating how...
17 May 2018
United Kingdom: sizeable pay rise for Rolls Royce employees, as it looks to reduce pension spending
After five months of intense negotiations, engineering company Rolls Royce has reached an agreement with trade unions that will see its 22,000 UK employees get a pay rise of between 7% and 11.7%...
17 May 2018
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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...
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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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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
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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...
5 March 2026
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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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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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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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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