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Two UK drivers have taken chauffeur firm Uber to the employment tribunal arguing they should be considered as employees. This test case could have repercussions for the high profile US app and...

19 July 2016

Belgium: Labor Minister sends draft legislation on flexible working time to the social partners

On Friday 15 July Belgium’s Labor Minister Kris Peeters sent the social partners two pieces of draft legislation. The government wants employers and unions to discuss the texts on ‘feasible work’...

19 July 2016

Germany: an agreement on mobile working at Audi

On 12 July, leaders at Audi’s central works council presented a company agreement on ‘mobile working’. The agreement is set to apply to the automaker’s 60,000 staff from October 2016 and it draws...

19 July 2016

France: US investment fund Sun Capital ordered to compensate former Lee Cooper France staff for having lost their jobs

In a ruling on 28 June, the Appeal Court of Amiens ordered the US investment fund Sun Capital to compensate employees that were made redundant from Lee Cooper’s French subsidiary on the grounds of...

18 July 2016

Great Britain: firms welcome a return to an industrial strategy

For the first time since the Thatcher era, Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has put the focus back on the need to put an industrial strategy in place. To this end the Prime Minister has...

18 July 2016

Denmark: tri-partite negotiations focus on apprenticeships

Denmark’s tri-partite negotiations have entered phase two. Since 15 April, and following the agreement struck on 17 March on integrating refugees into the labor market, all the parties have been...

15 July 2016

India: all female workers to be eligible for 26 weeks maternity leave

At the end of June a draft Maternity Benefit (Amendment) Bill was drawn up providing 26 weeks of maternity leave to all female workers in both the public and private sectors. The bill is expected...

15 July 2016

EU: Commission considers directives to improve work-life balance

On 12 July, the European Commission launched the second phase of its consultation with social European social partners regarding work-life balance. Under the EU Treaty, the Commission must consult...

13 July 2016

EU: ECJ advocate general Sharpston invites the court to adopt a very narrow position over banning the wearing of an Islamic headscarf

On 13 July, in the conclusions delivered concerning a French case, the Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston invited the ECJ to rule that the ban by an employer on its employee from wearing an...

13 July 2016

Germany: banking sector 3.7% pay rise over 33 months

Presented in the evening of 12 July, the wage agreement that applies to some 200,000 banking sector employees (public and private banks) is doubtlessly the least generous of the major wage...

13 July 2016

Great Britain: women continue to stake their claim in finance

Seventy-two major British firm have officially signed up to the government’s new Women in Finance charter which in particular links leaders’ pay to the appointment of senior women.

13 July 2016

Poland: developments in the area of labor law

In June, draft bills on posted working and formalizing employment contracts were finally adopted and several more legislative and regulatory projects are in the process of being prepared in the...

13 July 2016

Great Britain: the incoming Conservative Prime Minister is positively disposed to workers sitting on company boards

Workers sitting on the boards of directors and shareholders controlling company executive pay are two unexpected promises from Conservative MP Theresa May who is expected to replace David Cameron...

12 July 2016

Argentina: trade unions hold a ‘monopoly’ on strike action

Only trade union organizations can decide on strike action or on ‘other workplace measures’. Thus the ruling in June 2016 by Argentina’s Supreme Court ending the ambiguity that has surrounded...

12 July 2016

Russia: Vimpelcom developing teleworking on a large scale

Only 4% of employees in Russia telework, compared with 34% in the U.S. However, according to a study carried out by J’son & Partners Consulting and which appeared in 2015, by 2020 that number...

12 July 2016

Eni: renewal of the global framework agreement signed with IndustriALL Global including a world works council

IndustriALL Global Union and Italian energy giant Eni have renewed their global framework agreement, with improved rights for 33,000 direct employees in 65 countries including a world works...

11 July 2016

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