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Brazil: Mercedes-Benz before the courts over unfair dismissals
At the start of September Brazil’s Labor Ministry, the MPT ,brought an action to the courts against automaker Mercedes-Benz that has a facility in São Bernardo do Campo, in the São Paulo area...
14 September 2017
EU: where airline crews are “home based” is significant in determining the jurisdiction where they habitually carry out their work (CJEU Ryanair Case)
Ryanair cabin crew members looking to bring a case against their employer do not have to turn to the Irish labor Tribunal just because the company’s aircraft are registered in Ireland. They can...
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14 September 2017
EU: The EU Commission presents its short and medium term priorities
On 13 September 2017, the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, delivered his annual and penultimate speech on the State of the European Union at the European Parliament. In...
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13 September 2017
Germany: a key ruling by the Federal Labor Court for interim employees working in metal sector services provision
Germany’s metal union IG Metall estimates that tens of thousands of interim workers are set to receive extra income thanks to a ruling dating back to 22 February 2017 that was only recently...
13 September 2017
Great Britain: Brexit threatening 1.5 million jobs says new report by the TUC union confederation
How are we doing? The impact of Brexit at industry level. Thus the title of a new report presented on 10 September by the TUC union confederation during its annual conference in Brighton. In it...
13 September 2017
France : the Paris Court of Appeal has ordered UPS SCS to reinstate 85 employees on the grounds of a fraudulent transfer of undertaking
This resolution, although not new, is only infrequently used and this is why we have reported this ruling rendered on 07 September. The company in question had transfered its repairs and...
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12 September 2017
ENGIE: latest EWC agreement put online
ENGIE's EWC agreement has undergone its second amendment since it was initially put in place following the Gaz de France | Suez merger (for more on the agreement itself c.f. article No. 090489). ...
12 September 2017
Briefly, Spanish union UGT has launched a platform for workers in the collaborative economy
After Germany’s IG Metall initiative (c.f. article No. 9064), it is the turn of Spain’s union confederation the UGT to offer web-based platform workers a specific site where they can “criticize...
12 September 2017
Italy: Sanofi lifts employee working time monitoring
During the summer, the Italian subsidiary at French pharmaceutical group Sanofi signed an agreement with trade unions on work hours and services for employees and their families working in Milan...
11 September 2017
China: update on latest labor legal developments in Beijing and Guangdong provinces
In a bid to ensure more legal stability for employers and employees and against a backdrop of heavily regulated labor relations the High Courts of Justice and Labor Personnel Dispute Arbitration...
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11 September 2017
Great Britain: devolved public sector services in Wales freed from the UK Trade Union Act
The Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017 that partially overturns union reforms put in place by the UK government in 2016 (c.f. article No. 9641) received Royal Assent on 7 September with a Coming into...
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11 September 2017
News update as of September 7, 2017
Australia/The new Fair Work Act set to increase franchisors and holding companies' responsibilities. The Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Vulnerable Workers) Bill 2017 aims to afford better...
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5 September 2017
The European Court of Human Rights outlines essential guarantees surrounding electronic communications surveillance and monitoring
In a ruling handed down on 05 September, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) set out the conditions under which an employer has the right to monitor an employee’s electronic communications...
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5 September 2017
India: Darjeeling tea pickers are on strike for over 80 days
In India’s prized Darjeeling tea region, tea pickers continue their strike action that they started in June. Trade unions have allied with the separatist Gorkha People’s Liberation Front and are...
5 September 2017
Norway: draft law clarifies part-time workers’ pre-emptive rights
Following calls by both the Confederation of Unions for Professionals, Norway (Unio) and the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the country’s government has presented a draft law...
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5 September 2017
News update as of September 4, 2017
South Korea/Government plans to amend regulation to limit wage disputes, following ruling against Kia Motors. The announcement, which was made on Friday 1 September, came one day after a South...
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1 September 2017
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