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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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27 October 2015
Adidas: sporting goods manufacturer uses new building to experiment with new forms of work organisation
In August, Adidas inaugurated an office building on its “World of Sports” campus, but it is not your usual office block. As part of the MyArena programme, the architecture within this building —...
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26 October 2015
Russia: businesses still looking to hire highly skilled professionals, despite the economic crisis
“We need engineers to design the aircraft of tomorrow, to meet the challenges that technology raises, stated Svetlana Kraïchinskaya, vice-president of HR at United Aircraft Corporation, a majority...
21 October 2015
Telenor implements 6-month maternity leave for its staff worldwide
On 29 September the Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor announced it was putting 6-month paid maternity leave programs in place for its entire staff worldwide. The company is facing fierce...
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1 October 2015
Belgium: Belfius the bank and insurance company tries out “working differently”
From June 01 and for a maximum of six months a volunteer group of Belfius staff will try out working flexible hours outside of their current working arrangements. The company has already designed...
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1 June 2015
Santander bank adopts ‘flexiworking’ to allow its employees worldwide manage their own working hours
Spain’s leading financial group has implemented a new type of flexible working for its entire staff. Called ‘flexiworking’ it allows teams organize their own working time and promotes teleworking...
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18 May 2015
Italy: merit based salaries for Manfrotto (Vitec Group Imaging Division) employees
Being a leader and innovating can get you up to 12% more in salary if you are an employee in the Italian company Manfrotto whose head office is based in Cassola North East Venice. Employing some...
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21 April 2015
Russia: foreign businesses scarce among the top employers ranking
Russia’s most popular employment site HeadHunter (hh.ru) has published its 2014 top employers ranking that aims to be as simple and as transparent as possible in a context where an employer’s...
21 April 2015
Vodafone looks to pamper their mothers (employees) around the globe
Vodafone, the British telecommunications giant that employs around 93,000 staff is going to implement a new maternity leave policy that will apply across their global operations (Global...
13 March 2015
Germany: digitization is a massive challenge facing HR units (feedback from the German Association for Personnel Management congress)
How is the rapid rise in digitization changing business models and value chains? What is the impact on how work is organized? What is HR’s role in the face of the challenges that the digital...
3 March 2015
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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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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Slovakia: 6% increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2027
The news. As Slovakia’s social partners failed to reach an agreement during tripartite negotiations, Labour Minister Erik Tomas has decided to increase the minimum wage by 6% from 1 January...
1 September 2026