Flora Genoux
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Argentina: government encourages increase in minimum wage
The news. On the eve of the August 28 meeting of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Vital and Mobile Minimum Wage, the Argentine government said it was encouraging an...
1 September 2026
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Argentina: government encourages increase in minimum wage
The news. On the eve of the August 28 meeting of the National Council for Employment, Productivity and the Vital and Mobile Minimum Wage, the Argentine government said it was encouraging an...
1 September 2026
Chile: Government aims to create 50,000 jobs by October
The news. The Interministerial Employment Committee—bringing together the Ministries of Economy, Women and Gender Equality, Labour and Social Welfare, as well as the Undersecretariat for...
3 July 2026
Chile: the government proposes an inflation-linked increase in the minimum wage
The news. The Chilean government of José Antonio Kast (far right), the president who took office in March, presented a bill on April 30 to limit minimum wage increases to inflation trends...
12 May 2026
Argentina: court ruling keeps labour modernisation law in force
The news. On 23 April, Argentina’s National Labour Appeals Chamber granted suspensive effect to the appeal lodged by the government on 7 April against a court ruling that had blocked a large...
4 May 2026
Argentina: judge partially suspends Javier Milei’s labour reform
On 30 March, an Argentine labour court judge partially suspended the "labour modernisation law" following a legal challenge filed by the General Confederation of Labour (CGT), the country’s main...
1 April 2026
Mexico: promulgation of the 40-hour week reform
Approved unanimously by Mexican deputies on 25 February, the reform introducing a 40-hour working week has been published in the Official Gazette. The new working hours will be implemented...
6 March 2026
Argentina: labour reform passed by Parliament
Legislation deregulating the framework labour law was definitively adopted by Argentine Parliament on Friday 27 February. The CGT, the country's primary trade union federation, filed legal...
4 March 2026
Mexico: government proposes introduction of 40-hour week
On 3 December 2025, Mexico’s left-wing government presented its proposed reform for a 40-hour week (compared to the current 48 hours). The bill submitted to the Senate provides for a gradual...
5 January 2026
Mexico: minimum wage to rise by 13% in 2026
On 3 December, Mexico’s left-wing government announced that the minimum wage will increase on 1 January 2026, rising from 278.80 to 315.04 pesos per day (€14.87 or €452 per month)...
10 December 2025
Argentina: Milei outlines main points of planned labour reform
Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, unveiled his labour reform plans on 10 October during a visit to a metal processing plant in San Nicolás, around 230 kilometres from...
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21 October 2025
Mexico: bill tabled to allow donation of leave to colleagues
Left-wing Mexican MP Carina Piceno Navarro presented a bill on 9 September to allow employees of the same company to donate leave days to colleagues. This donation, which must be made anonymously...
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- News brief
18 September 2025
Mexico: President Claudia Sheinbaum confirms plan to raise the minimum wage
The minimum wage in Mexico must be raised annually over the next few years to represent 2.5 basic baskets (a set of products and services considered essential for the survival and well-being of a...
1 September 2025
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EU: insurance sector social partners commit to addressing violence and harassment at work
The news. The trade union UNI Europa Finance and the employers’ federations Insurance Europe, Amice and Bipar signed an addendum to their 2022 joint declaration on diversity and inclusion on...
18 September 2026
Juliette Baudry (Boiron): “An intergenerational mechanism to better accommodate different life stages”
Since 1 September 2026, employees of the pharmaceutical group Boiron (1,700 employees in France) have benefited from a “key life moments account”. Resulting from an agreement signed last February...
18 September 2026
France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026
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Spain: government seeks to strengthen protection for employee whistleblowers
On 28 July, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft bill aimed at providing legal protection to employees who report corruption or breaches of labour law, shielding them from potential...
27 August 2026
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Netherlands: Uber fined over 800 million euros for automated algorithmic decisions
The news. In a decision dated 17 August, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined ride-hailing company Uber €825 million for automating decisions regarding driver account deactivations. The...
24 August 2026
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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Germany: introduction of the concept of partial incapacity for work
The news. On 10 July, the German Parliament definitively adopted the “Act to Stabilise Contribution Rates in the Statutory Health Insurance System”...
27 August 2026