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The School of Management and Law at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, a British NGO, have probed the practices and actions of 20...

8 November 2019

Chile: widespread social unrest drives the unhindered passage through parliament of draft legislation lowering weekly working hours to 40

Draft legislation that sets the legal working week at 40 hours (down from 45 currently) is making its way through Chile’s Parliament (for more on the text and associated debate c.f. Article...

7 November 2019

Great Britain: legal firm threatens damages against tobacco giant British American Tobacco

Leigh Day, the UK-based legal firm, specializing in human rights, has sent a pre-action letter to the London headquarters of the tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) announcing its...

5 November 2019

Japan : Microsoft 4-day working week trial to promote ‘life choices at work’ and speed up changing attitudes

Over the course of August 2019, the 2,300 staff at Microsoft’s Japanese headquarters tried out working on a 4-day per week basis, when they worked for four consecutive days and did not work...

5 November 2019

Italy: measures to protect delivery riders definitively adopted

Adopted definitively by the Italian parliament on 31 October, the decree-law to regulate the work of meal delivery riders (see article n° 11336) finally creates a two-tier system. On the one...

4 November 2019

United States: UAW president accused of misappropriation of union funds

Gary Jones, president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, has found himself in the firing line of federal legal authorities investigating potential corruption, following recent...

4 November 2019

Great Britain : gender pay gap rises for the first time in six years

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics – Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) released on 29 October 2019, the gender pay gap for full-time employees sat at 8.9%...

30 October 2019

Great Britain : 30 major businesses commit to mental health

Thirty employers including banking names Santander Bank, Barclays Bank and Lloyds Banking Group, the Royal Mail, multinationals such as Unilever, and the advisory firm Deloitte have promised to...

23 October 2019

United States : Intel chooses the transparency route and will release employee pay data broken down by race and gender

After a Bloomberg report on 17 October (here), Intel Corp has said that later this year it will publicly release the employee pay data that it sends to the US authorities, which is broken down by...

22 October 2019

Germany: agreement in the industrial cleaning sector

On 18 October, social partners in Germany’s industrial cleaning sector announced that they had reached an agreement to renew the framework collective agreement which regulates, among other...

21 October 2019

Italy: boost to employee purchasing power in 2020 budget

Under the draft budget approved by Italy’s Council of Ministers, overnight between 15 and 16 October, the tax burden on employees will be reduced from next year. The measure should take...

18 October 2019

Digital tools : UK start-up ‘predicts’ employee resignations

Oxford-based visual data management start-up, Zegami, has just launched a new tool for employers that will enable them to predict which employees are most likely to resign from their jobs. Called...

16 October 2019

Ireland : Financial Services Union calls for legislation on the right to disconnect

The Financial Services Union called on 10 October – on World Mental Health Day – for a law that would grant workers the right to disconnect. The union for workers in the financial...

14 October 2019

Germany : a net rise in regular employment?

Is German growth creating only unstable jobs or is it leading to more regular employment? To this important question, which is often exploited for political ends, Germany’s federal...

14 October 2019

Germany : agreement at Postbank allows workers to choose between more free time and more money

The trade union Verdi and the negotiators for German retail bank Postbank announced, on the morning of Thursday 10 October, that they have reached a compromise on the renewal of the company...

11 October 2019

88 NGOs and trade unions launch an appeal for a European regulation making human rights and environmental due diligence mandatory

On 03 October 2019 a coalition of 88 NGOs and European trade union organizations (ETUC, Uni Europa, EFBWW, EPSU, EFFAT, ETF, and IndustriAll Europe) called for the adoption of a regulation that...

10 October 2019

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