News update as of March 29, 2019

On the menu : in Italy, minimum hourly salary makes a return to front stage, agreement concluded between Unilever and its EWC on the “Futur of work” available, in the UK, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) rules that a Special Negotiation Body (SNB) put in place to negotiate an EWC agreement can continue to exist beyond the three years intended by the Directive, if the parties are continuing negotiations to finalize the agreement, publication of the first union audit of workers’ conditions at QDVC, the qatari subsidiary of Vinci, in the UK the CIPD provides guidance on how to break the stigma surrounding the menopause at work, Africa to have its own Mechanical Turk (MTurk)?
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Italy/Minimum hourly salary makes a return to front stage. Labor Minister, Luigi di Maio (Five Star Movement- M5S) has relaunched the debate on one of his election promises, namely the institution of a national minimum hourly salary rate, which within the government contract was only to be intended if branch national collective agreements (CCN) did not define any such rate (c.f. article No. 10687). The law proposed by M5S in July 2018, (DDL 658), and which intends for minimum hourly pay befor

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