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On the menu : EWC directive revision, draft law on multinationals due diligence requirements adopted by the French Senate, the Swiss peoples initiative for responsible multinationales continues along its course, agreement at FCA in Canada, jobs cut in VW and some other brief news. 
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13 October 2016 à 15h40

Updated on 14 October 2016 à 10h16

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7 minutes

Publication: 13 October 2016 à 15h40, Updated on 14 October 2016 à 10h16

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EU/EWC Directive revision. During the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) annual conference on EWCs (focused this year on the digital era), a representative of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment announced that the report on implementing the recast Directive 2009/38 on EWCs would not be published before the spring of 2017. The directive intends for this report and it is the preparatory stage for a reflection on the need or not for yet another revision of the EU re

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