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Since taking up office on 01 January 2019, Brazilian President Bolsonaro has already started detailing his vision and intentions in terms of labor and employment reform and as a result has sparked...

16 January 2019

Germany: freedom to work remotely may become a right

Workers in Germany are increasingly demanding the right to work from home, as people consider the opportunity to work in complete independence and concentration, to avoid traffic jams and achieve...

14 January 2019

United Kingdom: EY introduces paid leave for employees who suffer domestic violence

EY, UK-based the professional services giant, has introduced a system of paid leave for its employees in the country that suffer from domestic violence. The new policy forms part of a vast...

14 January 2019

News update as of January 11, 2019

On the menu : Theresa May looks to garner trade union support for withdrawal agreement, in Germany, Pakistani lawsuit rejected due to expiry of statute of limitations, first rulings undermining...

11 January 2019

News update as of January 10, 2019

On the menu : legislation to promote teleworking in Germany, in the UK, ‘Fat Cat Friday’ re-centers ‘excessive executive pay’ in the line of fire, in Poland escalating pay levels, 8% increase in...

10 January 2019

Spain: new non-financial information legislation comes into force

New law 11/2018 that came into force on 29 December 2018 transposes the EU Directive on non-financial disclosure (2014/95) and introduces the requirement for companies to disclose non-financial...

9 January 2019

United States: California en route to 6-months paid parental leave

California’s new governor Gavin Newsom is seeking to implement an initiative that would provide 6-months of paid parental leave for new parents, and which if successful could serve as a template...

9 January 2019

H&M and IndustriALL Global together secure a global dispute resolution mechanism

IndustriALL Global’s Global Framework Agreement (GFA) is unique in that it comprises National Monitoring Committees (NMC) that are made up of representatives from unions and company management and...

8 January 2019

Italy: first national collective agreement for the major retailers

Following more than five years of discord (c.f. article No. 9699), Federdistribuzione, an independent umbrella employers’ body encompassing the major supermarket chains (Auchan, Carrefour...

8 January 2019

Germany: train drivers secure the right to disconnect from work

On 04 January, just a few weeks after signing the initial agreement with the major rail union, EVG, Germany’s rail company Deutsche Bahn signed another collective agreement, this time with the GDL...

8 January 2019

News update as of December 21, 2018

On the menu : Italian banking sector social partners implement a bilateral commercial business policy committee, introduction of largest minimum wage hike for 25 years, in th UK/ Should veganism...

21 December 2018

France: a ruling on the information-consultation obligation for WCs operating in French subsidiaries of non-French companies (take-over situations), which hold EWCs but which do not detail how interaction should occur between the various representation levels

The dispute centred on the Thales takeover of Dutch headquartered digital security firm Gemalto. The WC in Gemalto’s French arm Gemalto SA (a 99.99% parent holding entity) turned to the courts and...

20 December 2018

EU: the qualification period required to be eligible for paternity leave is the final question to be discussed to allow the adoption of the ‘conciliation’ draft directive

Europe’s co-legislators have almost secured agreement on the draft directive on ‘conciliation’ (c.f. article No. 10177). During what had been scheduled as their final meeting on 14 December they...

20 December 2018

Great Britain: employers’ body overwhelmingly rejects the government’s post-Brexit immigration plan

On 19 December, and with the 100-day countdown to Brexit just underway, the UK government unveiled its much-awaited Post-Europe Immigration white paper. Key measures in the plan include the...

20 December 2018

Italy/EU Commission avoids pursuing excessive deficit procedures over budget in return for less fund allocation to citizen’s income and pensions

Italy’s Conte government has reviewed the contents of its 2019 budget and in order to avoid EU Commission sanctions will lower the expected deficit to GDP ratio to 2.04% from the original 2.4%. In...

20 December 2018

Germany: nation opens its doors to skilled workers from across the world

After 30 years of ideological debate on the need to formulate legislation on economic immigration and on whether or not to consider Germany as an ‘immigration country’, the country’s grand...

19 December 2018

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