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On the menu : major campaign to make flexible working normal in the UK, in Belgium Central Economic Council recommends a maximum 0,8% salary increase for 2019 and 2020, assessment of EU gender-pay equality instruments, how the CSR approach is betting on the power of blockchain technology, introducing the notion or workplace harassment into legislation in South Korea, towards the right to disconnect from work in India?
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Great Britain/Major campaign to make flexible working normal. On 14 January, the government backed Flexible Working Task Force that has gathered together the CIPD HR specialist association, the CBI employers organization, and the TUC trade union federation, launched a campaign inviting companies to focus on flexible working. To this end, guidance will be distributed to employers to help them promote flexible working and identify the benefits from flexible working. Peter Cheese, chief executive

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