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Great Britain: government aims to bolster protection of workers from sexual harassment
The UK minister for women and inequalities, Penny Mordaunt, has unveiled a new action plan to offer better protection to people who fall victim to sexual harassment. The plan involves an extensive...
12 July 2019
Austria: collapse of ruling coalition sparks legislative frenzy in parliament
Thanks to an unprecedented political backdrop, members of the Austrian parliament have engaged in a period of legislative frenzy in recent weeks, passing a record number of new laws. According to...
12 July 2019
EU: Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission Presidential candidate seeks to put the environment and social issues at center of her future mandate
On 10 July, CDU (German Conservative Party) member Ursula von de Leyen met with seven EU parliamentary groups as she sought to present her set of priorities in a bid to win their backing for her...
11 July 2019
Great Britain: government looking to stamp out modern slavery
After the recent scandal surrounding the discovery of UK’s largest modern slavery network, where a gang in the West Midlands was found to have been busing over victims (400) from Poland, on 09...
11 July 2019
Portugal: draft legislation on a framework for the right to disconnect is rejected
In Portugal the right for workers to disconnect will not be officially regulated. The Parliamentary Working Group on reforming the Labor Code has rejected several legislative proposals for framing...
11 July 2019
EU: Directive on transparent and predictable working conditions is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU)
The new ‘working conditions Directive was published in the OJEU on 11 July (here). Now EU Members have until 01 August 2022 to align their own national legislation to this new EU text that help to...
11 July 2019
Great Britain: UK trade unions finally in tune over Brexit
Following months of tensions the major Labour Party affiliated trade unions have finally agreed on a common position over Brexit. They are calling for a referendum to be held over any deal (or...
10 July 2019
Germany: a least 1.3 million are failing to be paid the minimum salary (survey)
According to a survey published by the German Institute for Economic Research, the DIW, on Wednesday 10 July, between 1.3 and 2.4 million employees, who although eligible for the universal minimum...
10 July 2019
Renault: signs a global framework agreement on the quality of life at work for its employees
This global framework agreement, which was signed on 09 July by the French automaker Renault Group along with IndustriALL Global Union, the Secretary of the Renault Group Works Council (a global...
9 July 2019
Portugal: sanctions for companies making excessive use of fixed-term employment contracts
Portugal’s Parliamentary Working Group for reform of the country’s labor code has voted in favor of the principle of sanctions to be levied for companies’ excessive use of fixed-term employment...
9 July 2019
Spain: platform to promote union pluralism launches
Seven independent trade unions have joined forces to promote greater diversity of opinion, amid the so-called ‘duopoly’ of the CCOO and UGT, the two leading forces that dominate the union...
8 July 2019
Germany: agreement in banking sector for 4% pay rise and measures in view of digital transition
Social partners from Germany’s banking sector, including both public and private banks, unveiled the result of their negotiations on the morning of Thursday 4 July. The new collective agreement...
5 July 2019
Poland: nine new sectoral skills councils to be set up (in brief)
Poland’s national skills planning council, a body set up to help adapt the country’s skills pool to the needs of its labour market (see article n°10641), announced on 28 June that nine new...
5 July 2019
Germany: partial unemployment on the rise (in brief)
According to a survey by the Munich-based research institution, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, 8.5% of companies are now resorting to partial unemployment measures, making this the...
4 July 2019
Great Britain: the gig economy – a threat or opportunity for British trade unions
With 4.7 million British currently estimated as working on a per-job basis across a variety of online work platforms, trade unions and experts in the field agreed to discuss with Planet Labor the...
3 July 2019
Belgium: chemical sector agreement signed for 2019-2020
On 26 June Belgium’s chemical sector social partners signed a sector protocol agreement, just weeks after the 2019-2020 AIP (cross-industry agreement) negotiations fell through (c.f. article No...
3 July 2019
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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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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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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
2 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