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On 5 January, negotiations got under way between Dansk Industri (DI) and Co-Industri, the Central Organisation of Industrial Employees in Denmark, which brings together nine unions including the...

9 January 2017

Bulgaria : minimum wage, pensions, unemployment benefits – the changes for the year 2017

From the beginning of this year, some changes affecting the labour market came into force in Bulgaria.

9 January 2017

News updates as of 6 January 2017

On the menu : UK appoints first-ever ‘defender’ of employment law, merger of four main finish industry sector unions planned for 2017, Uber driver considered an employee by Swiss work accident...

4 January 2017

Germany: labour minister hopeful of law to facilitate move from part-time to full-time work

Andrea Nahles, Germany’s minister for labour and social affairs, has drawn up a bill to supplement the country’s existing law “on temporary and part-time work” (Teilzeit- und Befristungsgesetz)...

4 January 2017

Turkey: employees obliged to pay into pension funds

As of 2 January 2017, Turkish companies with more than 1,000 members of staff will need to make arrangements for their employees to pay into at least one private pension fund. The measure, which...

4 January 2017

Would you like to know more about Valter Sanches, the new General Secretary of IndustriAll Global, the global trade union federation for industry?

An interview is available on the federation’s website, where Mr Sanches talks about his journey and what he has planned for the union.

4 January 2017

Brazil: Michel Temer presents labour law reform

In the week of Christmas, Brazilian president Michel Temer presented the final draft of his reform to the country’s labour law. The draft – which is portrayed as being inspired by European...

3 January 2017

Germany: minimum wage, interim work, pensions and retirement… changes in line for 2017

The first rise in the legal minimum wage since it was introduced in January 2015, a new decree law on occupational health and safety, stronger rights for interim workers, ‘flexible retirement’…...

3 January 2017

Portugal: the minimum wage moves to €557, effect offset by lower employers’ social contributions

The social partners agreed to raise the gross monthly national minimum wage (SMN) from €530 to €557 as of 01 January 2017. This rise is to be offset by a 1.25% drop in employers’ social...

3 January 2017

Best wishes for a happy and enlightening 2017

The team at Planet Labor would like to wish you and your families a happy and healthy new year.

2 January 2017

France: flagship measures come into force as part of labour law reform

Of the measures contained in the reform to France’s labour law, which were adopted in July last year (see article n°9784) and came into force at the very start of 2017, that regarding the right to...

2 January 2017

Argentina: health cover for workers in the informal economy

The first step has been taken towards setting up health cover for workers employed in Argentina’s ‘popular’ economy. The government has indicated, via the press, that it is positively oriented...

2 January 2017

Suspension of the information thread during Christmas break

Dear readers, as we approach the end of the year we inform you we will be suspending our regular service from the evening of 22 December until the morning of 02 January 2017. As always our...

21 December 2016

News update as of 22 December 2016

On the menu : veto referendum jeopardizes some of the Jobs Act’s key measures (Italy), government Rajoy’s labor reforms also under threat (Spain), could the due diligence requirement be...

21 December 2016

Suez: European agreement signed over employment and skills management

On 21 Decembre 2016, management at the Suez group (water treatment, electricity, natural gas, and waste management) signed a European agreement on employment and skills management with a part of...

21 December 2016

EU: administrative authorization for collective redundancy is only in line with EU law when it does not deprive employers of any possibility to make workers redundant

Greek law states that in the absence of an agreement on a 'social plan' with the workers' representatives employers can only undertake any collective redundancy procedures if the labor...

21 December 2016

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