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Great Britain: PwC lowers degree class requirements to broaden recruitment pool
On 14 August, professional services and consulting giant, PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that a ‘2:1 degree’, i.e. an upper second class honours bachelor's degree, is no longer to be a minimum...
31 August 2022
Chile: government gives more details of the bill and project to secure a 40-hour working week
On 23 August 2022, Chile’s government specified the implementation details for draft legislation that seeks to reduce weekly working hours from 45 to 40. This reduction in working hours, which...
31 August 2022
France: La Poste doubles budget for closing wage gap in workplace equality effort
French postal service company La Poste and five trade unions have signed the firm's fifth agreement on gender equality in the workplace. The agreement, signed on 21 July 2022 and binding for a...
30 August 2022
Italy: transposition of EU directive on transparent working conditions places burden on employers
The decree law transposing European Union Directive 2019/1152, which was published in Italy's official gazette on 29 July and came into force on 13 August, requires Italian companies to make...
30 August 2022
Electrical manufacturer Socomec focuses on online games to engage its employees during its year-long centenary celebrations
In marking its centenary celebrations, the appliances, electrical, and electronics equipment manufacturer has turned to French start-up OuiLive to get Socomec’s 4,000 employees fully involved and...
29 August 2022
Italy: Gucci intends to combine competitiveness and employee well-being
On 22 July, Gucci Italia (Kering Group) and the Filcams-Cgil, Fisascat-Cisl and UIltucs trade unions signed a new agreement that focuses on employee well-being, work-life balance and training. The...
29 August 2022
Italy: the new collective agreement for the energy-oil sector innovates in terms of individual assessment
On 21 July, the energy-oil social partners renewed the sector’s national collective agreement that runs retroactively from 01 January 2022 until 31 December 2024 and covers more than 40,000...
27 July 2022
Paid parental leave: What advances are the EU Member States making? [data]
The EU’s 27 Member States have until 02 August to ensure their national legislation complies with the European Directive on work-life balance for parents and carers, and includes a period of paid...
26 July 2022
Spain: new measures for effective equality at work and to combat discrimination
Approved by the Spanish Parliament on 12 July 2022, Law 15/2022, the Integral Law for Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination places new obligations on employers requiring them to review their...
26 July 2022
China: government seeks to foster flexible jobs in platform economy
In recent months the Chinese government has sought to demonstrate that its efforts over the past two years to ensure closer financial and regulatory supervision of the country's platform economy...
25 July 2022
Colombia: a permanent framework for telework
While at the end of June 2022 Colombia’s Covid-19 health emergency officially ended, on 18 July the government published a decree modifying the specific regime for telework in order to give it a...
22 July 2022
Great Britain: holiday pay for contract and temporary workers must use the same calculation method as for permanent employees
On 20 July, the UK Supreme Court ruled that the method of calculating holiday pay for a contract teacher should be similar to that used for permanent employees. This ground-breaking decision could...
22 July 2022
US federal investigations into working conditions at three Amazon warehouses
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) agents are inspecting three Amazon sites located in New York, Orlando (Florida), and Chicago (Illinois, following a referral from the US...
22 July 2022
France: “Hybrid work requires us to redefine the meaning of coming to the office,” says Coralie Bianchi, deputy director of social affairs at Société Générale (interview)
The hybrid work agreement signed at French banking group Société Générale in January 2021, offering an average of two days of remote work per week to eligible employees, was applied in October of...
21 July 2022
Germany: government embarks on modernisation of immigration policy
In line with its programme for government, Germany's ruling coalition has started to unveil the broad outlines of its reforms to the right of asylum and economic immigration. The government's...
21 July 2022
Italy: new collective agreement in electricity sector emphasises value of people
After six months of negotiations, social partners in Italy's electricity sector signed an agreement on 18 July that introduces a protocol on "the value of people in companies" into the national...
21 July 2022
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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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Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
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France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
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24 September 2026
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Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
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7 September 2026