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South Korea: spy-gadgets and complaints, employees are making use of the workplace anti-harassment law
In an article from 03 September 2019, the Reuters news agency has reported numbers from the Labor Department for workplace harassment complaints, which have been recorded since the notion was...
5 September 2019
Germany: employees whose jobs are very likely to be automated receive the least amount of lifelong training
In a new study published on 20 August 2019, the IAB, German Institute for Employment Research, has highlighted an apparently paradoxical phenomenon. At a time when training is becoming...
5 September 2019
Italy : a company exiting an employer’s body must comply with the sector relevant collective contract until its expiry date (Court of Cassation)
In judgment No. 21537 handed down on 20 August 2019 Italy’s Court of Cassation, in a ruling on an appeal made by the Turin Filctem-Cgil trade union, held that when a sector national...
4 September 2019
Australia: companies are encouraging staff to participate in the Global Climate Strike
Some forty companies across the tech, health, and finance sectors have joined the ‘Not Business as Usual’ alliance in a bid to voice their support for the global climate strike. In...
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4 September 2019
United States: employees at Google supplier close to unionising
In a statement issued on 29 August, the Pittsburgh Association of Tech Professionals announced that it has begun taking the necessary steps for union representation of employees working for Google...
2 September 2019
Italy: collective agreement for industry sector managers renewed
Confindustria, Italian employers’ federation, and Federmanager, the country’s federation of industry sector managers, signed a renewal of their collective agreement on 30 July, meaning...
27 August 2019
Italy: TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) and the trade unions sign two important agreements
Firstly, TIM, which is in the throes of significant reorganization in terms of its 5G service launch, signed a company agreement at the end of July 2019, some three years after group management...
26 August 2019
Italy: new collective agreement for Lamborghini provides for greater participation of staff representatives on Industry 4.0 and data collection
On 24 July 2019, the two main Italian union federations for metalworkers, FIOM-CGIL and FIM-CISL, signed a new collective agreement (for the period 2019-2022) at Lamborghini, the luxury automotive...
25 July 2019
Portugal: Regressar programme aims to encourage emigrants to return
The initiative dubbed Regressar seeks to make it easier for Portuguese people who left the country before 31 December 2015 – the date that marked the official end of the period of austerity...
25 July 2019
France: Samsung indicted for misleading business practices violating labor rights
On 03 July 2019, two French activist groups — Sherpa and ActionAid France signaled that the he French subsidiary of the Korean electronics giant Samsung was indicted. According to their...
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22 July 2019
ING: three NGOs file complaint with Dutch contact point for the OECD, demanding that the bank ceases investment in the palm oil sector
On 5 July, environment-focused NGOs from three different countries – Milieudefensie (Netherlands), Sustainable Development Institute (Liberia) and Wahana lingkungan Hidup Indonesia –...
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19 July 2019
Germany: employees work on average three hours extra per week and the trend is tending lower (consultants data)
According to data published by the independent advisory firm Compensation Partner, more than half of Germany’s employees (54%) are working overtime, amounting to an average three hours per...
16 July 2019
Great Britain : private companies tasked with assessing the tax and social status of their service providers
On 11 July, the government published a bill confirming that it plans to extend the IR35 tax legislation to small and large private companies. As of 6 April 2020, the groups concerned will have to...
15 July 2019
Great Britain: employers brace themselves for the Global Climate Strike
With the Global Climate Strike, founded following the movement propelled by the emblematic Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, having called for a global strike to protect the planet on 20 September...
12 July 2019
Poland: employers do not have the right to use alcootests to monitor alcohol intake levels
Following a series of GDPR-related modifications to the Labor Code, Poland’s National Data Protection Council had to deal with a barrage of questions on whether employers could use...
9 July 2019
EU: members of new parliament’s Employment and Social Affairs committee named
In a statement issued on 4 July, the names of the 55 full members and 55 substitute members of the Employment and Social Affairs committee of the newly elected European Parliament were confirmed...
8 July 2019
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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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
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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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”
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