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News update as of November 5, 2018
On the menu : Google employee walkouts in protest against sexual harassment and for equal pay, Memorandum on union rights signed with IndustriALL Global and the IUF with Unilever, Voluntary...
5 November 2018
News update as of October 31, 2018
On the menu : IndustriALL Global has filed a complaint with the OECD US national contact point against GE over ‘serious and ongoing abuse of workers in Algeria.’ , in the UK Lloyds Banking Group...
31 October 2018
Great Britain: minimum wage to go up by almost 5% in 2019
On 29 October Chancellor P. Hammond delivered his final budget speech to the House of Commons before the UK formally leaves the EU and with it he hailed ‘The era of austerity is finally coming to...
30 October 2018
EU: EU Commission concludes that progress is being made in terms of wage convergence
Published on 25 October, the annual EU Commission report on the Labour Market and Wage Developments that extends beyond 200 pages re-iterated the importance of productivity in boosting wage...
30 October 2018
Japan: a shake up in the way young graduates are usually recruited
For the new president of Keidanren, (Japan’s Business Federation) there is no doubt whatsoever that Japan’s graduate recruitment system (the Shukatsu system), which has been operating since 1953...
30 October 2018
UPU: Universal Postal Union signs a cooperation agreement with Uni Global Union
UPU is an intergovernmental organization and specialized agency of the United Nations, comprising 192 member countries and is the principal cooperation forum for actors in the postal sector, that...
30 October 2018
The Netherlands: further postponement of the discussion of the Child Labour Due Diligence Law
On 16 October 2018, the Dutch Senate’s Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defense and Development Cooperation ( BDO) decided to postpone the discussion of the Dutch Child Labour Due Diligence Law (Wet...
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29 October 2018
Platforms: creation of the first transnational federation of delivery riders
The first pan-European assembly for workers of digital delivery platforms was held on 25 and 26 October in Brussels. The meeting organised by Alter Summit and GRESEA (research group for an...
29 October 2018
Austria: collective bargaining set to begin in trade sector
Social partners in Austria’s trade sector are due to begin the annual round of collective negotiations on 30 October in Vienna. As was the case with talks in the metal industry in September...
29 October 2018
News update as of October 26, 2018
On the menu : Spanish union UGT calls for legislation in order to prepare for the impact of automation on the world of work, again in Spain how digital banking alternative Revolut boosts its...
26 October 2018
Finland: ‘Work in the age of artificial intelligence’ report reassesses human resource management
In May 2017 the Minister of Economic Affairs appointed a steering group to prepare Finland for reaching its goal of becoming a global leader in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The group...
25 October 2018
Spain/an agreement to manage the end of the coal industry (in brief)
Planet Labor, 25 October 2018, nº10869 – www.planetlabor.com
25 October 2018
Argentina: a trade union for ‘gig economy’ workers
Argentina’s newly registered trade union: APP, the Association of Platform Personnel, is the first trade union in the Americas for workers in the ‘gig economy’. In the APP’s first press statement...
25 October 2018
Great Britain: Morrisons supermarket chain held liable for a data breach carried out by a disgruntled former employee
In a decision that has UK companies up in arms, on 22 October the UK’s High Court (court of appeal) and notably in a first, ruled that an employer, in this case the Morrisons supermarket chain...
24 October 2018
Spain: socialist government places a draft reform of the rightwing government’s 2012 labor law changes back on the negotiation table (briefly)
Socialist Labor Minister Magdalena Valerio has submitted for review by the social partners a draft reform of the labor law that will seek to row back on two key measures of the latest labor law...
24 October 2018
Austria : an algorithm that evaluates the unemployed (briefly)
Austria’s employment agency the Arbeitsmarktservice (AMS) has caused a deal of controversy after it announced it was willing to use an algorithm that evaluates both the employability of those...
24 October 2018
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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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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026
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United Kingdom: government “names and shames” companies that fail to pay the minimum wage
The news. On September 3, the UK government published a list of employers penalised for failing to comply with the National Minimum Wage. Nearly 660 companies were named, including fast-food chain...
4 September 2026
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Spain: approval of decree on employees’ right to clear information on working conditions
The Spanish government validated, on September 8 in the Council of Ministers, the decree transposing the European directive on transparent and predictable working conditions. This text requires...
9 September 2026