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While the U.K. has given companies with at least 250 staff an extra six months to publish their gender pay gap data (c.f. article No. 12377), only one out of four met the initial 04 April...

8 April 2021

United Kingdom: PwC unveils hybrid model for post-pandemic working, combining remote and in-office work

On 30 March professional services firm PwC announced that its 22,000 UK employees will be able to continue flexible working once the Covid-19 pandemic has passed and will be able to go to the...

2 April 2021

Italy: Autostrade’s innovative agreement allows smart working parents 90 minutes of time off every morning to help children with online schooling

With schools closed in a large part of the country and only set to gradually reopen after the Easter period, the agreement signed on 18 March at Autostrade per l'Italia (Aspi, Italy’s major...

1 April 2021

Volvo Cars announces 24-week parental leave for all employees worldwide

On 30 March car manufacturer Volvo Cars announced it is opting-in its more than 40,000 employees globally, in all plants and offices, into a new all-gender, paid parental leave policy. From 01...

31 March 2021

Kering: interview with Béatrice Lazat, Human Resources Director of the luxury group, on Kering’s global domestic violence policy

Since the start of 2021, Kering has been rolling out its global domestic violence policy that provides specific support to all employees who open up on their situations as victims of domestic...

29 March 2021

Financial services giant Citigroup bans video calls on Fridays

There will be no more Friday video calls for employees of Citigroup. The New York-based financial services group, the world’s 12th-largest company according to the Forbes Global 2000, has...

26 March 2021

Colombia: end line in sight for adoption of a bill regulating ‘telework in exceptional circumstances’

On 23 March on the occasion of its second reading in Senate plenary, almost unanimous approval was given to a bill regulating working at home ‘telework’ under ‘ad hoc, extraordinary or special’...

25 March 2021

UniCredit implements global parental leave policy of 16 weeks for mothers and 4 for fathers

On 22 March the Italian bank announced its implementation of a group-wide minimum standard maternity leave of 16 weeks (paid) and 4 weeks for fathers (voluntary), which will apply globally from...

24 March 2021

EU: EU Commission proposes a directive to end the gender pay gap

On 04 March, the European Commission presented the text of a draft Directive imposing transparency obligations on public and private sector companies in order to ensure their compliance with the...

4 March 2021

Ukraine: Labor Code regulates long-term teleworking

Following President Volodymyr Zelensky’s promulgation of Law No. 4051, Ukraine now has a legal framework for the practice of teleworking. Passed in early February by the Verkhovna Rada parliament...

2 March 2021

United States: $100 bonus payment for retailer Kroger’s workers who get vaccinated

US mass retailer Kroger, which employs almost 370,000, has joined a list of US companies and announced a lump sum bonus for employees who get inoculated. “As we move into a new phase of the...

10 February 2021

Germany: what lessons has the current situation been teaching the nation’s human resource managers?

Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, the massive deployment of telework has turned the corporate arena into a huge laboratory that is trying out new ways of working and the work of...

9 February 2021

France: Just Eat platform to hire 4,500 staff on open-ended contracts

The food delivery platform Just Eat is to recruit at least 4,500 delivery staff in France by the end of this year, according to newspaper reports in the country. Just Eat confirms that it has...

1 February 2021

Belgium: inter-professional collective agreement signed for the implementation of compulsory telework in companies during 2021

On 26 January 2021, Belgium’s National Labor Council (a joint employer-employee representative body that negotiates inter-professional collective agreements), together with trade union...

28 January 2021

Austria: government agrees new rules and incentives for teleworking

On 27 January, Austria’s Council of Ministers promulgated new rules and tax incentives that will now govern the practice of teleworking. While the Ministry of Labor and the social partners...

28 January 2021

Ireland: a landmark national strategy to develop remote work that intends to fast track the employee’s right to request remote work and the right to disconnect

On 15 January 2020, Ireland’s government published its first national remote work strategy (here), the goal of which is to ensure home and remote work becomes the norm after the pandemic...

19 January 2021

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On 6 March, the French government sent social partners a draft bill to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive. The text provides details on the implementation timetable, corporate...

9 March 2026

Spain: report proposes democratising employee participation

On 2 February, Spanish labour minister Yolanda Diaz presented the conclusions of a report on democracy in the workplace. The document, which calls for employees to be given a say in...

25 February 2026

Italy: Deliveroo and Glovo targeted by justice over courier working conditions

The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered two of Italy's leading food delivery platforms, Foodinho (Glovo) and Deliveroo, to be placed under judicial administration. According to...

9 March 2026

Germany: menopause issues finally gain corporate recognition

With 12 million women over 40 in the labour force, German companies and occupational health professionals are beginning to adopt support policies for those affected by menopause-related issues...

19 March 2026

Valérie Decaux (La Poste): “Our older workers policy is based on individualisation to move beyond age-related-stigmatisation”

La Poste Group (nearly 200,000 employees in France) unveiled its first senior employment agreement in late February. The text outlines measures for early retirement assistance, workplace...

10 March 2026

Sweden: government delays transposition of Pay Transparency Directive

On 11 March, the Swedish government announced it is postponing the transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive. Having originally targeted an entry into force on 1 July 2026, it has conceded a...

16 March 2026