News update as of February 20, 2018

On the menu : recommendations for French businesses on how to support employees’ career paths following the end of their mandates that result from recent reforms to employee representation bodies, project to introduction of a minimum wage for apprentices is causing controversy in Germany, Italian voluntary APE early-retirement (Anticipo Pensionistico, bridging-loan) gets underway one year behind schedule, towards a framework for individual employment termination in Poland, Signaal, a new online window enables occupational physicians to flag new work-related health risks in Belgium.
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France/Recommendations for businesses on how to support employees’ career paths following the end of their mandates that result from recent reforms to employee representation bodies. Three recommendations stand out from the ‘Supporting Social Dialogue Momentum’ (Accompagner le dynamique du dialogue social) report presented to the Labor Minister on 16 February*. They are directed at guiding companies as they implement the recent reforms to employee representation bodies, the consequences of which will mean a number of employees, who were formerly significantly involved in representation mandates (full-time or part-time equivalence) and as such absent from their original career positions over lengthy periods of time, will now find themselves without any further representation mandate. The Macron reform consolidates the Works Council, the Health and Safety Committee, and Employee Delegates positions into a single Social Economic Committee (CSE) with a concomitant overall reduction in the number of mandates and thus representatives.

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