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Great Britain: Just Eat shakes up the gig economy by offering its drivers an hourly wage
After recently adopting a similar approach in other European countries, the mobile app-based home food delivery giant Just Eat is starting to end its practice of paying per completed job. This gig...
10 December 2020
Mexico: government rows back on banning the practice of employee outsourcing
On 09 December, and less than a month after submitting a bill to Mexico’s Parliament that would prohibit the practice of outsourcing workers (c.f. article No.12224), which is largely implemented...
10 December 2020
EU: hospitality sector social partners call for massive support from EU Institutions and Member States to save the sector and preserve employment
Upon the closure of European Hospitality Sector social dialogue committee meeting held in November, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, and HOTREC, the...
9 December 2020
EU: social partners in the temporary agency work sector call for an extension of existing social innovation schemes for temporary workers
On 01 December a joint declaration was signed by the World Employment Confederation-Europe (employers) and UNI-Europa (trade unions), and concluded a two-year project on social innovation in the...
9 December 2020
EU: telecom sector social partners affirm social dialogue as key to developing ethical and trustworthy AI
On 30 November, the European telecommunications sector’s social partners (ETNO – employers & Uni Europa trade unions) signed a Joint Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which emphasizes...
8 December 2020
EU: Ceemet and IndustriAll Europe joint position affirms the need for strong and autonomous social partners in managing digital transformation
In their 09 November joint position on "The impact of digitalisation on the world of work in the MET industries", the European social partners in the metal, engineering, and technology-based...
8 December 2020
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
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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