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Sign the new deal or lose your job. This was the offer Ryanair made to the 164 employees at its base in Girona, north of Barcelona. The airline company had announced the closure of four sites in...

13 December 2019

Italy: Milan Appeals Court argues that working on public holidays is not obligatory, even in the tourist sector

On 05 December, in an appeal hearing, the Milanese Tribunal confirmed an initial court decision from July 2018 that had ruled in favor of two female workers for the Autogrill group, who had...

12 December 2019

EU: European Commission presents its Green Deal that focuses on employment

Prior to her investiture, the President of the European Commission had announced her desire for the EU ‘to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050’. On the morning of 11...

11 December 2019

Italy: does the ‘permanent employment contract with rising levels of protection’ that was instituted by the Jobs Act discriminate in situations of collective dismissals?

At the end of November the Naples Appeals Court referred certain measures in the Jobs Act, to both the Italian Constitutional Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. The issue lies...

6 December 2019

Switzerland: draft federal legislation en route for adoption that looks to offer caregivers two paid leave periods

On 04 December, Switzerland’s second legislature house, the Council of States, followed the example of its first, the National Council that on 23 September adopted draft legislation to...

5 December 2019

France: mass mobilization in public protest at pension reforms

On 05 December France embarked on a period of instability, the length of which is hard to predict. Although it is the transport workers, lawyers, doctors, gas and electricity workers and public...

5 December 2019

Austria: salary increases and a reorganization of salary categories in store for 130,000 workers in the Commerce sector

On 27 November, the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKO) Commerce sector together wit the services union Vida agreed on salary increases and a reorganization of salary categories for 130,000 workers...

4 December 2019

United Kingdom: bonuses for TSB bank managers and executives to be cut for missing its gender balance targets

On 03 December, The Guardian daily newspaper revealed that executives and managers at the Edinburgh-headquartered TSB bank will likely see their 2019 bonuses cut for failing to meet its targets...

4 December 2019

Hungary: specific labor courts will soon cease to exist

As of 01 January 2020, Hungary’s labor courts currently dealing with private sector employee cases will cease to exist. Legislation adopted at the end of 2018 on labor tribunals (21 December...

27 November 2019

Italy: according to a ruling by the Court of Cassation, collective bargaining cannot prohibit intermittent work

According to ruling 29423 of 13 November (here in Italian), a collective convention cannot prohibit a company using intermittent employment contracts. The judges explained that Law 2003, one...

26 November 2019

Great Britain: almost 13 million workdays were lost due to mental health issues

At the end of October, the U.K.’s government agency responsible for workplace health, safety and welfare, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), reported that in fiscal year 2018-2019, 12.8...

26 November 2019

United States: Intel includes diversity as criteria for selecting legal service providers

In a statement published on 21 November, the US tech corporation Intel called on its corporate law departments, located in the US, to consider performance on diversity when using external law...

25 November 2019

Great Britain : ONS calls on us to stop viewing 65 as the onset of ‘older age’

In its report ‘Living longer: is age 70 the new age 65?’ published on 19 November 2019, the UK’s Office for National Statistics clearly argues that considering people aged 65 as...

21 November 2019

India: Starbucks announces it has achieved gender pay equity and will continue to raise the female employee participation rate

On 05 November 2019, Tata Starbucks, a 50/50 joint-venture between Tata Global Beverages and the Californian Starbucks company announced in a statement (here in English) that its female...

15 November 2019

Germany: an ‘Artificial Intelligence Observatory’ is set to be established

With more and more robots and algorithms relieving employees from simple repetitive tasks and with digital solutions increasingly pervading all sectors of activity, Germany’s government is...

14 November 2019

Brazil: government proposes a new employment contract to promote youth employment

On 12 November 2019, and in line with its goal of creating 1.8 million jobs by 2022, the government of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro passed a ‘provisional measure’ that...

13 November 2019

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