News update as of 24 November 2016

On the menu : German Labor Minister wants to allow business to test flexible working, Spanish Prime minister’s minority government’s economic policy suffers its first setback as the left votes for an increase in the minimum wage, the European Commission adopted a draft directive on early restructuring for struggling companies, the legal battle for workers' rights in the UK within the 'gig economy' intensifies, EU institutions agreement over conflict minerals, Hungary raises the minimum wage.
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Germany/Labor Minister wants to allow business to test flexible working. During an interview on 19 November with the publication Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, Andrea Nahles, announced that in response to wishes by both business and workers, she wanted to create the conditions for further working time flexibility. To this end the Minister intends to introduce, on a trial basis, exception clauses to the law on working time that will allow compani

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