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On the menu : a mediator for the ‘crowdworking’ sector in Germany, OECD highlights risk of UK departure from the EU, employers in California face stricter requirements for sexual harassment training, pay gap between East and West Germany remains high, dispute over open-ended contracts for temp workers.
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Updated on 23 October 2017 à 16h36

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Publication: 20 October 2017 à 16h27, Updated on 23 October 2017 à 16h36

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Germany/ A mediator for the ‘crowdworking’ sector. The Deutschen Crowdsourcing Verbands (DCV) a recently-created federation of crowdworking platforms in Germany, has announced the creation of a mediation board to settle social and legal disputes between platforms and ‘crowdworkers’. The board, created to resolve quarrels in a sector that is poorly regulated, will begin operating at the end of October. It will be made up of one mediator, an employer representative, a representative of the IG Met

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