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News update as of November 9, 2018

On the menu : Robots at work in HR Department at PostNL, more robots, this time at Amazon US, only 10% of companies have started upskilling staff so they can manage the impact of robots and...

9 November 2018

Great Britain: Lloyds Banking Group’s landmark digital social plan

Is new technology more of a threat to jobs than Brexit? Some in the UK are asking this question after private banking group Lloyds announced on 06 November a major shake-up in jobs as part of a...

8 November 2018

Germany: Milla an intelligent online training platform (in brief)

Conservatives within the German government are backing the creation of Milla (Modular Interactive Lifelong Learning for All), a 'lifelong training platform' that will be managed by artificial...

8 November 2018

Great Britain: government gives the green light to consultations on Dutch-type collective defined contribution (CDC) pension schemes

On 06 November the Department for Work and Pensions launched a consultation to shape legislation for collective defined contribution (CDC) schemes, which in contrast with individual defined...

7 November 2018

Italy: ‘smart working’ is on the rise

According to the annual report published on 30 October by the Politecnico di Milano School of Management Observatory, over a year after the approval of Law 81 2017 that regulated ‘agile working’...

7 November 2018

Finland: university thesis examines new technology based recruitment methods

In May 2018, Reija Oksanen at the University of Tampere Faculty of Management presented a Master’s thesis on new technology based recruitment methods that in particular examines those phases in...

7 November 2018

Spain: Carrefour bolsters its equality plan

On 30 October, Fetico, CCOO, UGT et Fasga unions signed a second equality plan for Carrefour Spain’s hypermarket/supermarket outlets that includes 120 new measures and implements positive...

6 November 2018

EU: the Court of Justice of the European Union rules that the allowance in lieu of annual leave not taken by a worker due to death should be paid to that worker’s estate

On 06 November a CJEU ruling in two joint German cases applied EU Directive 2003/88 on working time, which runs counter to German legislation that leads to the loss of annual paid leave untaken by...

6 November 2018

Italy : 2019 budget proposal now omitting the citizen’s income and the pension reforms (in brief)

With the European Commission calling on Italy to re-submit its 2019 budget proposal or risk sanctions for excessive debt levels, the revised text started out on its parliamentary route on 05...

6 November 2018

News update as of November 5, 2018

On the menu : Google employee walkouts in protest against sexual harassment and for equal pay, Memorandum on union rights signed with IndustriALL Global and the IUF with Unilever, Voluntary...

5 November 2018

Planet Labor updates are on hold and will recommence on the morning of 5 November

The team at Planet Labor will be taking this long weekend off (01 November is a public holiday in several countries across Europe including France). We will suspend our daily publications for 01...

31 October 2018

News update as of October 31, 2018

On the menu : IndustriALL Global has filed a complaint with the OECD US national contact point against GE over ‘serious and ongoing abuse of workers in Algeria.’ , in the UK Lloyds Banking Group...

31 October 2018

Great Britain: minimum wage to go up by almost 5% in 2019

On 29 October Chancellor P. Hammond delivered his final budget speech to the House of Commons before the UK formally leaves the EU and with it he hailed ‘The era of austerity is finally coming to...

30 October 2018

EU: EU Commission concludes that progress is being made in terms of wage convergence

Published on 25 October, the annual EU Commission report on the Labour Market and Wage Developments that extends beyond 200 pages re-iterated the importance of productivity in boosting wage...

30 October 2018

Japan: a shake up in the way young graduates are usually recruited

For the new president of Keidanren, (Japan’s Business Federation) there is no doubt whatsoever that Japan’s graduate recruitment system (the Shukatsu system), which has been operating since 1953...

30 October 2018

UPU: Universal Postal Union signs a cooperation agreement with Uni Global Union

UPU is an intergovernmental organization and specialized agency of the United Nations, comprising 192 member countries and is the principal cooperation forum for actors in the postal sector, that...

30 October 2018

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