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EU: Parliament’s Employment Committee adopts resolution on the right to disconnect
A resolution for a right to disconnect, which was proposed in July by the Maltese MEP Alex Saliba, was adopted on 1 December by MEPs in the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social...
7 December 2020
Axa: charter signed with EWC on global health and well-being programme
On 18 November, Thomas Buberl, chief executive of French insurance group Axa, and Hedi Ben Sedrine, secretary of the Axa European Works Council, signed a charter on the group’s global health and...
4 December 2020
United States: NLRB challenges the dismissal of two Google employees, in the name of the law that protects their right to organise collectively
The US National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against tech giant Google. According to lawyers of the federal agency in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley firm violated labour law when...
4 December 2020
Germany: exploring various avenues to regulate online platform work
Prior to the Government’s Digital Agenda Summit being in Berlin (30 November – 01 December), Employment and Social Affairs Minister Hubertus Heil opened a discussion on labor conditions and labor...
1 December 2020
Great Britain: trade unions paying close attention to rising use of AI in companies
On 30 November the TUC trade union confederation announced it was launching a taskforce specifically aimed at protecting workers from the punitive use of new technologies within companies. The...
1 December 2020
Switzerland: responsible business initiative fails to garner sufficient support
In a vote held on Sunday 29 November, a popular initiative in Switzerland that seeks to hold large companies in the country accountable for the actions of their affiliates and suppliers abroad...
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30 November 2020
Spain: individuals on short-time working given priority access to training
Published in the Spanish Official Gazette (BOE) on 27 November, a decree from the country’s labour ministry establishes priority access to vocational training for individuals affected by furlough...
30 November 2020
France: social partners strike national cross-industry agreement on telework
Talks over a cross-industry framework agreement on telework - or remote working - in France finally reached a conclusion on Thursday 26 November, after a process sped up by the lockdown and the...
27 November 2020
China: the flip side of the recovery
China, a province of which was at the epicentre of the Covid-19 emergency, was officially speaking able to contain the pandemic as early as March. Although the economy did contract in the first...
27 November 2020
France: the Court of Cassation simplifies the elements constituting co-employment thereby tightening the concept even further
On 25 November, and in response to a persistent problem facing the lower judiciary to comprehensively understand the criteria used to characterize the existence or not of a co-employment...
26 November 2020
Great Britain: billions of pounds channeled towards protecting jobs in the face of Covid-19
On 25 September the UK government unveiled its latest Covid-combatting and post-Brexit budget intentions. Two key features of the spending review are the launch of a new ‘Restart’ scheme that aims...
26 November 2020
Germany: trade unions are looking into their own digitalization
Germany's first trade union ‘hackathon’, called UnionHack, was held online on 20 and 21 November. UnionHack brought together hackers, IT developers and digital designers for a ‘programming...
25 November 2020
Italy: framework agreement at DHL Express defining salaries and working conditions in subcontracting activities
On 19 November, management at DHL Express Italy together with the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti trade unions signed a national framework agreement that aims to regulate abusive recourse to...
24 November 2020
Germany: a step closer to a mandatory quota for female executives at large companies
Following years of lively debate and a bill that was blocked by the conservatives at the start of this year, the government working group set up this summer to reach a compromise announced on...
23 November 2020
France: an agreement at Thales on long-term short-time working arrangements
A negotiated company agreement is required in order to deploy long-term partial short-time working arrangements and access a salary subsidy scheme that has been set up to support companies forced...
23 November 2020
Italy: collective agreement renewed in telecommunications sector
On 12 November, social partners in Italy’s telecommunications sector signed a deal to renew their national collective agreement, which applies to some 130,000 workers. The new agreement takes...
20 November 2020
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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
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025