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On 29 November, the CJEU ruled that a worker must be able to carry over and accumulate unexercised rights to paid annual leave when an employer does not put that worker in a position in which he...

29 November 2017

Sweden: following the global #metoo campaign, female union members are launching their own movement

With the slogan ‘This is non-negotiable’, #inteförhandlingsbart, female union members want to take advantage of the momentum that the global #metoo campaign against sexual harassment has generated...

29 November 2017

EU: the EU Commission launches a public consultation on a European Labour Authority, as well as a European Social Security Number

The European Commission is considering the shape of a future European Labour Authority and European Social Security Number and on 27 November it launched a public consultation across all relevant...

28 November 2017

Great Britain: a productivity-led industrial strategy with a construction sector agreement

On 27 November the UK government presented a new industrial strategy to tackle the country’s ongoing productivity woes since the financial crisis and to try to reassure business as Brexit...

28 November 2017

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

17 November 2017

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