News update as of November 10, 2016

On the menu : French Multinational company duty of care requirements, a pre-agreement to unlock a dispute at Nissan in Catalonia (Spain), Commentary on 11 October 2016 Law recasting parental leave in Luxembourg, repeated Verdi initiated strike actions against Amazon bring no results because they are invisible (Germany),  measures over whistleblowers in the law on transparency in France, another company (in this case a textiles company) condemned for slave labor in Brazil.
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France/ Multinational company duty of care requirements. Since the Government supported this proposed law that requires French multinational companies to formulate a plan that aims to anticipate human rights and environment violations at their foreign subsidiaries as well as along their sub-contracting chains (see our article n°8894),, its schedule has gained pace. Following the joint (Deputies and Senators) committee’s failure to reach a compromise, France’s National Assembly is due to adopt t

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