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Sweden: Spotify employees can choose their own ‘public holidays’
On 17 November Sweden’s online music streaming company, Spotify announced that its 3,500 staff would be offered flexible public holidays (Flexheg). Since Spotify employees come from many different...
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28 November 2017
Bangladesh: the government announces its intention to relax trade union laws
On Tuesday 21 November Bangladesh’s government announced it was looking to relax its labor law so as to facilitate the establishment of trade unions in factories. “The laws will be amended in line...
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28 November 2017
Austria: retail sector secures up to a 2.6% pay rise and reforms to pay scales
On Wednesday 22 November, Austria’s retail sector, the country’s largest employer with almost 400,000 workers, presented the results of negotiations that secured a collective agreement, which will...
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23 November 2017
Portugal: pre-agreement on working time at the Palmela Volkswagen plant
On 22 November at AutoEuropa, Volkswagen’s automotive assembly plant, located in the city of Palmela, near Lisbon, Portugal, management at the German automaker together with the Workers Commission...
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23 November 2017
Great Britain: a training program designed by both employers and unions
On 22 November during the UK government’s autumn budget presentation, the chancellor announced an ‘historic’ partnership between the employers’ body, the CBI, and the union confederation body, the...
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23 November 2017
France: the Court of Cassation delivers its ruling on wearing of the veil in the workplace
On 22 November France’s highest appeals court handed down its ruling that affirmed the principle whereby an employer can only dismiss an employee who has direct contact with customers whilst...
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22 November 2017
Brazil: although the government clarifies certain points in its new labor legislation uncertainties still remain
In force since 11 November 2017, Brazil’s Labor Code reform (Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho – CLT, c.f. article No. 10312), which the country’s parliament voted in during the summer, and which...
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22 November 2017
Italy: the chamber of deputies has definitively adopted a law to protect whistleblowers
To apply equally in the public and private sectors, on 15 November Italy’s ‘whistleblowing’ law was voted in by a significant majority of the country’s Chamber of Deputies. The law intends to...
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21 November 2017
EU: the European Commission pushes for social protection and gender pay equality
On 20 November during the EU Social Summit held in Gothenberg, the European Commission adopted an action plan aimed at eliminating the gender pay gap. The EU Commission also launched a second...
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21 November 2017
Vinci: agreement signed over workers’ rights in Qatar
This agreement is the first of its kind On 21 November Vinci and the Qatari company Qatari Diar VINCI Construction (QDVC), signed an agreement with the global federation, the Building and Wood...
21 November 2017
EU: Gothenburg summit sees top-level commitment to social rights
On Friday 17 November at the social summit held in Gothenburg, Sweden, the European Union, as had been expected, adopted the European Pillar of Social Rights. To allow the Commission to keep tabs...
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17 November 2017
Romania: social and tax reforms cause widespread chaos
The Romanian government, led by the Social Democratic Party (PSD), has decided to implement a series of controversial reforms, despite protests on the streets of the country and strong opposition...
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17 November 2017
Bangladesh: Alliance achieves improvement in worker safety
In its annual report, published on 15 November, the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety was positive on the progress it has made. The organisation, which is funded by leading US retailers, has...
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17 November 2017
Great Britain: Deliveroo riders deemed self-employed and cannot have union representation
In a claim by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) made in 2016 for it to be recognised as the Deliveroo riders' representative and as such able to negotiate for this group (c.f...
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16 November 2017
Italy: employers’ bodies mobilize to make dual-working a success
In order to tackle unemployment and better match jobs supply and demand conditions, the ambitious 2015 education reform imposed mandatory dual-working (in-company practical work) experience for...
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16 November 2017
Norway: social partners add changes to the framework agreement that structures the country’s collective negotiations system
On 10 November negotiations concluded between the union confederation LO and the employers body NHO on renewing the collective negotiations framework agreement (hovedavtalen). Dating back to 1935...
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16 November 2017
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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Inditex European works council mobilises on value sharing
In a joint statement, 10 trade unions comprising the European works council of the Inditex clothing group are calling for rallies in Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany...
24 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025