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United Kingdom: delivery firm Hermes sets aside support fund for gig workers amid coronavirus outbreak
German delivery firm Hermes announced on 6 March that it would set aside a £1 million (€1.15m) support fund for its 15,000 independent delivery workers in the UK, in the event that they...
9 March 2020
Santander extends right to maternity and paternity leave to all staff across global operations
Santander is introducing a global minimum standard for parental leave in every market in which it operates, with mothers granted at least 14 weeks of paid leave and the father or secondary parent...
6 March 2020
Great Britain: government makes a temporary emergency change to sick leave legislation as a result of Covid-19
While UK statutory sick leave compensation normally starts to come into effect on the fourth day of work absences, the Conservative government has announced that Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), which...
5 March 2020
Great Britain: investors increasingly more vociferous over the gender gap
The Investment Association, a trade body representing UK investment managers, has written to 63 companies listed on the FTSE 350 criticizing them for the lack of female participation on their...
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5 March 2020
Mexico: businesses backing staff that take part in 09 March women’s strike
Mexico’s ‘national women’s strike’ that is set for 09 March was launched by the feminist group Brujas del mar via Facebook back in September 2019. The strike action has...
4 March 2020
Great Britain: government launches holiday entitlement guidance campaign
On 02 March, the UK government launched a guidance campaign, the goal of which is make workers aware of their holiday entitlements. Based on a survey by the association called Unpaid Britain, the...
3 March 2020
Italy: fraught negotiations to renew collective agreements in several key sectors
Italy’s engineering and metals sector trade unions are beginning to get impatient, after their collective agreement, which covers some 1.5 million workers, expired on 31 December 2019. The...
2 March 2020
United Kingdom: government prepared to include pledge not to weaken labour law in trade deal with EU
In its negotiating mandate published on 27 February, Boris Johnson’s government stated that it does not want to weaken labour standards following the UK’s exit from the European Union...
28 February 2020
United States: NLRB amends rules for joint-employer status
The NLRB (National Labor Relations Board, an independent agency of the United States government in charge of protecting the right of employees to unionise and investigating illegal practices in...
28 February 2020
Austria: government relaxes conditions for arrival of high-potential workers from third countries
On Wednesday 26 February, the council of ministers presented measures to make the conditions allowing highly qualified workers from third countries to come to Austria more flexible. First of all...
28 February 2020
Great Britain: employers’ confederation urges businesses to publish ethnicity pay gap details
On 26 February the CBI employers’ confederation called on employers with more than 250 staff to voluntarily publish their ethnicity pay gap details. The confederation argues that if...
27 February 2020
Italy: telecoms trade unions attack Iliad’s business methods
The source of this spat lies in a survey commissioned by Italy’s fourth largest telecoms operator, and carried out by the I-Com think tank. The report stated, ‘Iliad’s Italian...
27 February 2020
Italy: government facilitates smart-working in 6 Northern Italy regions that are battling with the coronavirus outbreak
A new Ministerial decree gives employers in six northern regions recourse to agile working arrangements for their employees, even in the absence of individual written agreements as intended by the...
26 February 2020
South Korea: Covid-19 spurs several businesses to implement teleworking measures
In an article on 25 February 2020, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reports that several large companies are allowing their staff to work from home as the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly across...
25 February 2020
Belgium: measures introduced to preserve jobs in the event of no-deal Brexit
On 20 February, Belgium’s Chamber of Representatives approved a bill containing temporary measures that seek primarily to avoid or limit the loss of jobs in the event of the UK exiting the...
24 February 2020
United Kingdom: average wages return to pre-financial crisis levels
Almost 12 years on from the financial crisis of 2008, which heralded a deep recession and a rise in unemployment, wages in the UK have risen back to the level they were before the crash, the UK...
20 February 2020
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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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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
5 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026