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Both an ageing population coupled together with growing demands from China’s millennials are now forcing corporations to rethink the way they approach Chinese employees, as retaining talent is key...

20 December 2016

Kering puts a global parental policy in place

On 14 December French luxury goods brand announced that as of 01 January 2017 minimum standards would be in place for maternity and adoption leave that will be fourteen weeks at 100% of basic pay...

14 December 2016

HR practices: Vincit, a company with just two managers, the CEO and the head of HR

Mikko Kuitunen and Pekka Virtanen set up Vincit (software development and IT outsourcing) in 2007 in the Finnish town of Tampere. They dreamt of a ‘business where people were happy to go to work...

27 October 2016

Daimler: the automaker introduces ‘the right to mobile working’ for 100,000 German workers

In line with Bosch, BMW, and Audi, automaker Daimler has also embarked upon an ambitious company agreement catering for mobile working that will come into force on 01 December 2016. Going forward...

25 October 2016

Italy: almost one third of big business uses ‘Smart Working’

30% of large companies have put ‘smart working’ structures in place, up from 17% in 2015 and the country now boasts some 250,000 ‘smart workers’ (flexible working times and places of work), which...

13 October 2016

Continental offers mobile working to 90% of its global workforce (interview)

German auto parts manufacturer Continental has just launched mobile working within the company for 90% of its 200,000 employees from all hierarchy levels working across twenty-one countries. This...

29 September 2016

Russia: Vimpelcom developing teleworking on a large scale

Only 4% of employees in Russia telework, compared with 34% in the U.S. However, according to a study carried out by J’son & Partners Consulting and which appeared in 2015, by 2020 that number...

12 July 2016

France: executives at Orange (ex-France Telecom) risk standing trial for moral harassment

The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has called for three former executives at the Orange company to stand trial for workplace harassment. The three in question are Didier Lombard, the then...

11 July 2016

Russia: Eldorado project looks to attract young managerial staff into retailing

A dearth of young qualified professionals is affecting the country, despite the falloff in GDP. Not only is the research sector being impacted but so are both tourism and retailing. The Eldorado...

23 May 2016

Great Britain: companies will have to publish gender pay gap details from 2018

On Friday 12 February 2016, the UK government confirmed that from 2018, companies employing more than 250 staff would be required to publish gender pay gap details. Education and Equalities...

15 February 2016

Daimler: opens negotiations over the right to mobile working

Whilst the German automaker Daimler already offers a variety of working time models apparently this is still not enough. Results from a large internal survey showed that almost 80% of the 33,000...

25 January 2016

Italy: Smart Working is taking off

In December 2015, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concluded a company agreement implementing Smart Working (SW) in its Italian operations. This is the latest foray into this increasingly popular form...

12 January 2016

Portugal: Italian multinational Calzedonia’s recruitment policy is roundly criticized for breaches of privacy

Italian multinational Calzedonia (lingerie) has received much criticism in Portugal. Two of its outlets in Lisbon set up their recruitment operations at street level in full view of passersby. On...

25 November 2015

Lego: a longer working day in exchange for a shorter working week; the Danish toy producer’s solution to raising productivity

Positive results have been forthcoming from the new working hours regime that the world’s leading toy maker tried out in one of its Danish casting factories. The work shift was extended from 8 to...

23 November 2015

Great Britain: to fight discrimination, Cameron turns to the name-blind CV

Under the aegis of the UK’s Conservative government, private companies and public institutions have committed to recruiting using name-blind CVs, to fight against discrimination.

27 October 2015

Germany: Bosch cuts individual bonuses

At the end of September, the German manufacturer announced that it would no longer pay bonuses for individual performance, to any of its 290,000 employees. The management at Bosch believes that...

27 October 2015

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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...

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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

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

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

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

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...

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