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On 23 March France’s National Assembly adopted the draft law that looks to oblige France’s largest companies to take reasonable care in order to pre-empt human rights violations and environmental...

23 March 2016

United States: more transparency over companies’ recourse to “union hunters”

On 23 March, the Labor Department published the final version of the new rule on transparency as relates to companies hiring consultants and lawyers to assist in discouraging workers from...

23 March 2016

Great Britain: financial services to commit to making room for women

Several British banks have signed a Government charter in which they pledge for a better gender balance especially by placing more women in key roles. This represents a revolution in so far as the...

23 March 2016

Italy: moves to make vouchers used for casual labor more traceable

On 22 March, Giuliano Poletti, the Minister for Labor announced that the voucher system used for casual labor would become traceable. This is in a bid to counter misuse of the system, a fact that...

23 March 2016

To our friends and colleagues in Brussels,

This note is to send you our heartfelt support and to share in your sadness, knowing, as we do, what these events entail. We may be ‘Planet’ in name but much of who we are resides in...

22 March 2016

EU: the 4th UNI Europa Conference was held under the heading ‘Changing Europe Together’

With the desire to ‘Change Europe’, thanks to stronger unions with increased negotiations influence, UNI Europa gathered its members together for a three-day conference, held in Rome from the 14th...

22 March 2016

Great-Britain : Brexit could cost Britain £100 billion and one million jobs (CBI)

Leaving the EU would cause a serious shock to the UK economy that could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020, a report commissioned by the CBI...

21 March 2016

Denmark: parliament adopts a reform over social assistance

On 17 March the Danish parliament adopted a government draft law reforming the social services system in a bid to encourage those on benefits to reenter the jobs market. The main changes include a...

21 March 2016

Belgium: a Royal Decree is published authorizing night work in the e-commerce sector

The Royal Decree, published on 10 March, authorizing night time work in the e-commerce sector appeared in the Belgian Official Journal on 18 March. As part of its digital program, e-commerce is...

21 March 2016

Denmark: tripartite agreement over integrating refugees through work

One in two refugees in work. That’s the government’s goal in an agreement concluded on 17 March between the social partners over integrating refugees via employment. Key to the agreement is the...

18 March 2016

Spain: an agreement with Repsol to ensure respect for the working conditions in sub-contracting companies

Management at the oil group together with the union announced the signing of a cooperation protocol to guarantee respect for suppliers’ employees’ rights who carry out services at the...

17 March 2016

Great Britain : Government suffers important defeat on its Trade Union Bill in the House of Lords

The government suffered three important defeats to its Trade Union Bill in the House of Lords on the issues of balloting mechanisms, facility time and political funding. Under these amendments...

17 March 2016

EU: European social partners offer up three common messages to EU institution on the integration of refugees, industrial policy and the digitisation of the economy

In preparation for the customary tripartite social summit, which takes place on the eve of European summits, the European social partners — the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the Union...

17 March 2016

Germany: Minister for Labor, Andrea Nahles, wants to establish “chosen working time” for all, in the medium term

Almost one year after the starting gun was fired in April 2015 for a ‘national dialogue’ over the future of the world of work in the digital age, Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister for Social Affairs...

16 March 2016

Italy: an initial ruling calls into question the obligation to work on public holidays as written into employment contracts

The Rovereto labor tribunal (Trento) cancelled disciplinary sanctions for cashiers who had refused to work on public holidays, in spite of their employment contracts including the obligation to do...

16 March 2016

United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize in order to reap benefits from the new economy

Belonging to a union as a way to ensure that everyone gains from the new economy. Thus is the message from the Silicon Valley Rising movement, which, as is characteristic of the American...

16 March 2016

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