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Representatives of the CEOE and Cepyme employer organisations and of the CCOO and UGT trade unions have begun working with the government on an end to the period of lockdown, implemented to...

10 April 2020

EU: finance ministers give green light to financial support instrument for short-time work measures in member states

It is “in the spirit of solidarity and in light of the exceptional nature of the Covid-19 crisis” that the finance ministers of the European Union agreed, yesterday on 9 April, on the...

10 April 2020

United Kingdom: BT hands pay rise to non-management staff amid Covid-19 crisis

With demand for telecommunications services having skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic, giant of the UK sector BT has expressed its gratitude to staff by handing a 1.5% pay rise to the...

10 April 2020

Canada: supermarket executives take to shop floor

Managers are rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty. That’s the message being sent out by several supermarket chains. Loblaw, Empire, Longo, and the Canadian subsidiary of...

9 April 2020

Great Britain: audit firms using sabbatical leave to deal with the coronavirus crisis

In order to lessen the financial impact of the health crisis, audit and consulting firms are looking into the idea of the sabbatical leave option. Thus, professional services firm Grant Thornton...

8 April 2020

Hungary: government announces a job protection program

On 06 April Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced via Facebook the launch of 5 economy support programs, including one that seeks to preserve jobs. Although the details of the jobs...

8 April 2020

Chile: President promulgates legislation instigating a minimum income guarantee

From May, state aid (IMG, Ingreso Mínimo Garantizado, Minimum Income Guarantee) will be paid to employees earning the minimum salary in order to guarantee a net monthly income of CLP300,000...

6 April 2020

Germany: Berlin plans to increase short-time working allowance

Hubertus Heil, Germany’s employment and social affairs minister, has announced that he will open discussions with social partners on the level of compensation paid to people placed on...

3 April 2020

Austria: social partner agreement for faster access to partial unemployment

On 01 April, the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) and the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) announced that they had reached an agreement “for maintaining company...

2 April 2020

Enel: implements insurance cover for all staff globally who need Covid-19 related hospitalization

On 26 March 2020, Italian energy company, Enel Group announced an agreement was signed with the professional services and financial risk-mitigation firm Aon SpA to provide a “Covid-19...

1 April 2020

EU: European Commission puts unemployment reinsurance scheme on the table in a bid to support national partial-unemployment working schemes

Criticised for being slow to respond to the Coronavirus crisis, the European Commission has decided shift up gears. While the project has been under discussion for many years and was due to be the...

1 April 2020

Germany: crisis agreements struck at Deutsche Telekom and ThyssenKrupp

Two new ‘crisis’ agreements, which were negotiated by video-conference, were announced last week at two major German companies in diverse sectors and differing economic conditions...

30 March 2020

United Kingdom: government relaxes law on paid leave in response to coronavirus crisis

On 27 March the UK government announced that, under the Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, which will modify the Working Time Regulations 1998, employees will be able to...

30 March 2020

India: €20 billion aid programme launched for the poor

With the entire country under lockdown since midnight on Tuesday, following a spike in coronavirus cases, India’s government announced on Thursday a €20.6 billion aid programme to...

27 March 2020

Danone guarantees jobs and salaries to all its employees worldwide for 3 months.

On 26 March, during an interview on French radio (RTL), Emmanuel Faber, CEO of the French food group Danone, stated the following commitment on air, “All employment contracts at Danone and...

26 March 2020

Great Britain: gender pay gap reporting requirement suspended due to the coronavirus crisis

On 24 March the UK government announced that large businesses would not have to report their gender pay gaps by the 05 April deadline. Minister for Women & Equalities, Liz Truss, and EHRC...

25 March 2020

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