News update as of March 5, 2019

On the menu: legislation moves to tackle excessive outsourcing in the packages delivery business sector in Germany, Vodafone puts leave-time in place for victims of domestic violence at global level, 15 businesses and major UK organizations commit to reporting their ethnicity pay gaps, Morgan Stanley (Budapest) trying to promote better work-life balance.
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Germany/ Legislation moves to tackle excessive outsourcing in the packages delivery business sector. German Social Affairs and Employment Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) has called the working conditions under which many home packages delivery workers operate as ‘shameful’. Such workers can find themselves employed by companies that are themselves sub-contracted by major transports companies. During the weekend 02/03 March, the Minister announced he would soon be submitting draft legislation set t

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