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United Kingdom: appeal tribunal rules that regular, voluntary overtime hours must be considered when calculating holiday pay
On 10 June, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) ruled that overtime hours subject to normal remuneration and worked both voluntarily and regularly should be taken into account when calculating...
13 June 2019
International: interview with Guy Ryder, ILO director general, on the issues to be covered at the International Labour Conference
The International Labour Conference (ILC), which takes place every June in Geneva, sets out the main International Labour Organization guidelines and adopts international standards. The conference...
10 June 2019
Germany: easing of conditions for economic migration
On 7 June, Germany’s Bundestag approved seven bills on immigration and integration, including a bill on the immigration of skilled workers ("Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz"). The law will come into...
10 June 2019
International: G7 members ready for deeper cooperation to reduce social inequality in globalised world
The labour and employment ministers from the world’s seven leading powers met at the G7 Social, held in Paris on 7 June under the French presidency. The ministers agreed on a ‘Social Communiqué’...
10 June 2019
Germany: IG Metall warns that many companies have no strategies to handle the major industrial changes ahead
During a press conference held in Frankfurt on 05 June, and on the occasion of the presentation of its ‘Transformation Atlas’, Germany’s IG Metall trade union has launched a ‘Red Alert’ over the...
6 June 2019
Orange Business Services: a lab to observe HR innovation across the world
The HR Innovation Lab recently launched by Orange Business Services is a mix between a think tank and a laboratory, intended as a venue for observing developments beyond the company, not only in...
Telefónica: cross-cutting digital transformation
Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica, which is present in 24 countries and employs more than 120,000 people across the world, spoke to Planet Labor about its digitalisation ambitions and...
Germany: employment agencies being creative in a bid to convince start-ups that they can help them recruit
For the past two years, employment agency advisors in Berlin, Hamburg, and in North Rhine-Westphalia have been going out on their own particular version of ‘safari’. In fact these advisors have...
5 June 2019
Argentina: annual salary agreements for the commerce, oil and metallurgy sectors
With inflation rampant, social partners from Argentina’s key economic sectors including commerce, oil, and metallurgy, are reaching a series of annual salary agreements. Salary revaluations have...
5 June 2019
News update as of May 29, 2019
On the menu : OECD adopts recommendations on the ethics surrounding artificial intelligence, World Health Organization officially recognizes ‘burn-out’ as an occupational syndrome and an online...
29 May 2019
EU: at the end of its 14th Congress the ETUC looks to unite behind efforts to tackle the challenges facing all national trade union organizations
United and Strong, thus the image that Luca Visentini, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation sought to deliver of his organization during the 14th ETUC Congress. The ETUC’s...
28 May 2019
United States: tech employees are stirring themselves
Until now IT programmers, designers, and all different types of software editors have been quite dismissive of collective action. Being well paid they don’t really see how collective agreements...
28 May 2019
Singapore’s HR Tech boom
Start-ups are increasingly spawning that seek to use AI to revolutionize the world of work. In the densely populated city-State of Singapore (5.6 million living in 722km²), USD 1.4 billion is...
28 May 2019
Norway: joint union-business work project to contribute to national reflection on AI and ethical digitalization at work
Negotia, the largest member of YS, Norway’s third biggest union confederation, has jointly launched a shared reflection with Telenor, the country’s largest telecommunications company, on AI and...
27 May 2019
Argentina: Assessment of the Macri government’s social policy
Six general strikes in under four years. The call by the central CGT union (The General Confederation of Labor) for strike action on Wednesday 29 May marks the sixth strike since President...
27 May 2019
EU: interview with Laurent Berger, General Secretary of the French CFDT and freshly elected President of the European Trade Union Confederation
During the 14th ETUC Congress, Laurent Berger, General Secretary of the  French CFDT was elected to the Presidency with 95.9% of the vote. In an interview with Planet Labor on 24 May 2019 as the...
24 May 2019
Most viewed articles of the month on mind HR
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...
13 January 2026
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EU: European Parliament calls for a directive on just transition
On 20 January, MEPs approved, with 420 votes in favour, an own-initiative report calling for a just transition directive. The text calls for the protection of workers to be guaranteed in the...
20 January 2026