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India: all female workers to be eligible for 26 weeks maternity leave
At the end of June a draft Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill was drawn up providing 26 weeks of maternity leave to all female workers in both the public and private sectors. The bill is expected...
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15 July 2016
EU: Commission considers directives to improve work-life balance
On 12 July, the European Commission launched the second phase of its consultation with social European social partners regarding work-life balance. Under the EU Treaty, the Commission must consult...
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13 July 2016
EU: ECJ advocate general Sharpston invites the court to adopt a very narrow position over banning the wearing of an Islamic headscarf
On 13 July, in the conclusions delivered concerning a French case, the Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston invited the ECJ to rule that the ban by an employer on its employee from wearing an...
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13 July 2016
Germany: banking sector 3.7% pay rise over 33 months
Presented in the evening of 12 July, the wage agreement that applies to some 200,000 banking sector employees (public and private banks) is doubtlessly the least generous of the major wage...
13 July 2016
Great Britain: women continue to stake their claim in finance
Seventy-two major British firm have officially signed up to the government’s new Women in Finance charter which in particular links leaders’ pay to the appointment of senior women.
13 July 2016
Poland: developments in the area of labor law
In June, draft bills on posted working and formalizing employment contracts were finally adopted and several more legislative and regulatory projects are in the process of being prepared in the...
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13 July 2016
Great Britain: the incoming Conservative Prime Minister is positively disposed to workers sitting on company boards
Workers sitting on the boards of directors and shareholders controlling company executive pay are two unexpected promises from Conservative MP Theresa May who is expected to replace David Cameron...
12 July 2016
Argentina: trade unions hold a ‘monopoly’ on strike action
Only trade union organizations can decide on strike action or on ‘other workplace measures’. Thus the ruling in June 2016 by Argentina’s Supreme Court ending the ambiguity that has surrounded...
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12 July 2016
Russia: Vimpelcom developing teleworking on a large scale
Only 4% of employees in Russia telework, compared with 34% in the U.S. However, according to a study carried out by J’son & Partners Consulting and which appeared in 2015, by 2020 that number...
12 July 2016
Eni: renewal of the global framework agreement signed with IndustriALL Global including a world works council
IndustriALL Global Union and Italian energy giant Eni have renewed their global framework agreement, with improved rights for 33,000 direct employees in 65 countries including a world works...
11 July 2016
France: auto company PSA signs a new performance agreement
On Friday 08 July, unions representing 80% of the votes cast during the latest elections signed a new triennial agreement running from 2017-2019. In it PSA commits to hiring 1,000 permanent...
11 July 2016
Ireland: freelance workers en route to having the right to collective bargaining restored
The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016, which aims to relieve collective agreements negotiated by freelance worker organizations from competition rules is about to pass the Seanad (Senate house)...
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11 July 2016
France: executives at Orange (ex-France Telecom) risk standing trial for moral harassment
The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has called for three former executives at the Orange company to stand trial for workplace harassment. The three in question are Didier Lombard, the then...
11 July 2016
Great Britain: the government focuses on reconverting workers in the crisis stricken oil sector
Faced with mass layoffs in the North Sea oil sector, the British government is trying to encourage workers to seek skilled work in sectors with manpower shortages.
8 July 2016
Myanmar: the Vision Zero Fund for the prevention of workplace accidents is launched
On 17 June in Yangon, German Secretary of State for Employment Yasmin Fahimi and the Myanmar Minister for Labor H.E.U Thein Swe inaugurated the fund aimed at creating and/or bolstering local...
Estonia: employers and unions start to set out lay the groundwork for the annual autumn negotiations
In the run up to the autumn tri-partite negotiations, employers are increasingly finding ways of drawing attention to what may turn out to be the problem that wage increases will pose for...
7 July 2016
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
5 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026