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The country is proving somewhat to be a test case for Latin America. At the start of the month, a judge in Buenos Aires ordered a halt to all home food delivery applications in the Argentine...

27 August 2019

Great Britain: appeal court confirms that a company’s management may implement plans without waiting for the EWC’s opinion

In a judgement handed down on 31 July (here), the Employment Appeal Tribunal rejected the appeal from the European Works Council at Oracle, against an initial decision made on 12 February (see...

26 August 2019

Crédit Agricole: global framework agreement signed with UNI Global Union

On 31 July the French banking group signed with UNI Global Union, the international trade union federation of the private service sector, a global framework agreement covering basic labour rights...

26 August 2019

Portugal: final adoption of Labor Code reform

On Friday 19 July Portugal’s National Assembly definitively adopted a series of amendments to the country’s Labor Code. While social collaboration initiated the reform process and several...

24 July 2019

Germany: little uptake of the law on salary transparency

Germany’s law on remuneration transparency (c.f. article No. 10143) that came into force in July 2017 sought to narrow the country’s gender pay gap, which at 21%, is one of the highest in Europe...

23 July 2019

Great Britain: two pieces of draft legislation to end the abusive use of confidentiality clauses and to better protect new parents

In the closing moments of Theresa May’s tenure as UK Prime Minister before her successor is announced on Tuesday 23 July and prior to her departure on Wednesday 24 July, the government has...

23 July 2019

Poland: a legally binding opinion on types of employee data treatment that has to undergo an impact evaluation

In a legally binding opinion that was published in the Official Journal on 07 July 2019, the National Office for Private Data Protection (UODO) details the types data treatment that will now be...

23 July 2019

France: Teleperformance called on to comply with duty of vigilance legislation

In a statement on 18 July, international trade union federation UNI Global Union, together with the well-known French legal activist NGO, Sherpa (for the protection and defense of victims of...

22 July 2019

United States: technical workers more willing to unionize than expected ?(Blind survey)

Thanks to its online surveys, the anonymous chat app for verified employees Blind, claim to be in touch with workers in the technical industry. On 15 July, it presented the results of a survey of...

22 July 2019

Spain: two agreements signed at Telefónica to guarantee right to disconnect and on how working time register will function

The CCOO and UGT trade unions and the management of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica have reached an agreement that will guarantee workers’ right to digitally disconnect and a second...

19 July 2019

EU: mini portrait of incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, through 7 articles from Planet Labor

On 16 July 2019, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman to be elected president of the European Commission (see article n°11232). She will commence the role in November. A German politician...

19 July 2019

Orange: global agreement on making gender equality a priority within the Orange group

On 17 July Orange together with the international services union federation Uni Global, and the Orange Union Alliance (that brings together union organizations represented within the Orange group...

18 July 2019

EU: Expert Group on European Works Councils put on hold until further notice

An Expert Group on European Works Councils had been the European Commissions’ compromise response to its assessment of the EWC Recast Directive (2009/38/EC); i.e. no new revisions to the text, but...

18 July 2019

Great Britain: a new single enforcement body for employment rights in the offing?

On 16 July the UK government launched a public consultation on the establishment of a new single enforcement body to ensure national minimum and legal wages are paid and that the right to paid...

18 July 2019

France: Court of Cassation strengthens the validity of the tribunal compensation scale

One of the key measures of the recent labor reform (c.f. article No. 10330) was the compensation scale that sets ceiling and floor limits, which the labor tribunal can require employers to pay to...

17 July 2019

Germany: with several negative factors dominating, the country is concerned over its labor market

Following a series of several negative economic indicators as well as some significant difficulties facing several of the nation’s larger corporates, Germans are increasingly concerned over the...

17 July 2019

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