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Spain: Inditex committing to effective equality
Spanish multinational clothing and textile group Inditex, which owns the Zara enterprise, has negotiated its first equality plan with the trade unions. The plan includes a hundred or so measures...
18 April 2023
United Kingdom: Channel 4 launches menstrual health policy
Channel 4, the UK public broadcast television service, has launched a company policy aimed at helping its female employees manage symptoms related to their periods at work, by offering greater...
27 March 2023
Gertrud Götze (T-Systems Austria/Schweiz): “The four-day week is an attractive project, but requires careful preparation”
Based on the initiative of Gertrud Götze, Vice President of the Human Resources Department for the Austrian and Swiss subsidiaries of German digital services company, T-Systems, the Austrian...
8 March 2023
Italy: insurance arm of Intesa Sanpaolo pens agreement with unions on four-day working week
Staff at the insurance business of Italian banking group Intesa Sanpaolo will be able to work a four-day week, structured as nine hours per day and at the same level of pay, under an agreement...
3 March 2023
Great Britain: positive results for the four-day working week
More than 90% of UK companies that took part in the four-day working week trial have decided to continue with the new working pattern. The results of the six-month large-scale test indicate a...
22 February 2023
Four-day week: trials taking place all over the world
Four-day week trials are being conducted in various countries, driven either by governments or the lobby group 4 Day Week Global. The various models that have been implemented tend to favour a...
16 February 2023
China: the four-and-a-half-day week at Leshi, a model for the future?
Since 1 January 2023, the 400 employees of Leshi Internet Information & Technology Corp, a video streaming platform founded in 2011, have been able to work a four-and-a-half-day week without...
13 February 2023
France: Michelin includes a sustainable mobility section in its quality of life at work policy
At the start of January 2023, management at the French multinational tyre manufacturing and mobility group together with all the trade union bodies company signed the quality of life at work...
9 February 2023
France: Altereo banking on the four-and-a-half day week to attract talent
La société de conseil et d’ingénierie de l’eau propose désormais à ses collaborateurs de travailler 38 heures sur quatre jours et demi par semaine. En leur permettant de mieux gérer leur équilibre...
8 February 2023
Italy: Eni strengthens its employee welfare scheme
The ‘Noi’ (Us) protocol signed by the multinational oil group and the trade unions puts new initiatives in place linked to employee well-being and health, parenthood and purchasing power support...
5 January 2023
Great Britain: Atom Bank permanently adopts the shorter four-day working week
After more than a year of testing the four-day working week, UK online retail bank Atom Bank has decided to permanently implement the shorter working period. As a reminder, the group started...
5 January 2023
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo officially launches the four-day working week
Despite a breakdown in negotiations with the trade unions, Italy's largest bank and largest private sector employer (74,000 employees) has decided to offer some of its employees the opportunity to...
3 January 2023
France: Air France joins forces with other companies to offer employees sustainable mobility options
As a founding member of two business associations dedicated to sustainable mobility in the area around the Paris region’s two main airports, Air France has implemented measures to facilitate the...
13 December 2022
Spain: BBVA looks to take care of teams’ emotional well-being
Spanish banking group BBVA is promoting an array of initiatives – from yoga lessons to mindfulness and knitting classes – that seek to bolster connections between staff members and raise awareness...
25 November 2022
France: Société Générale addresses PSR prevention amid a period of unease at the soon to be merged bank
According to our information, on 10 November French bank Société Générale together with three trade unions reached an agreement on ‘quality of life and working conditions’. The text significantly...
16 November 2022
Unilever testing the four-day week in Argentina and Australia
After having adopted the shorter working week in New Zealand, following an 18-month trial period, UK consumer good multinational Unilever (Dove, Knorr, Cif...), has announced the launch of a...
9 November 2022
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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EU: Commission launches consultation with social partners on quality jobs
On 4 December, the European Commission launched the first phase of consultation with social partners with a view to a European directive on jobs, which is scheduled for the end of 2026. It could...
4 December 2025
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EDF bans alcohol on all its sites
From 1 January 2026, French energy giant EDF (180,000 employees) will prohibit alcohol consumption at all internal and external corporate events, from social gatherings to seminars. The policy...
26 November 2025
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United Kingdom: government scraps plan to introduce ‘day one’ protection against unfair dismissal
The UK government announced on 27 November, in a statement, that it would not be introducing the right to challenge unfair dismissal (without cause) from the first day of employment in its...
3 December 2025
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Poland: bill adopted to amend definition of psychological harassment
On 27 November, the Polish cabinet adopted a draft amendment to the labour code aimed at simplifying the definition of psychological harassment at work, or “mobbing” (Article 94 3)...
4 December 2025
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EU: MEPs demand directive on algorithmic management
Members of the European Parliament have called for a directive on algorithmic management. Such legislation would introduce obligations for companies to inform employees, assess health and safety...
17 December 2025
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Austria: European rules on wage transparency expected to cause a cultural shock
With the gender pay gap in Austria being the second largest in the European Union (18.3%), the Austrian government has promised to introduce a bill next spring to transpose the European directive...
27 November 2025