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France: court orders Amazon to limit business to essential products pending a risk assessment involving staff representatives
In a decision handed down on 14 April, on a case brought by the trade union Union Syndicale Solidaires, the court in Nanterre ordered Amazon to limit its business to essential items (hygiene...
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15 April 2020
Spain: government and social partners in automobile and construction industries issue recommendations on workplace safety to govern the recommencement of work
After 14 days with all non-essential activity in Spain brought to a complete halt, the country’s industry and construction sectors have gradually recommenced activity following the Easter weekend...
15 April 2020
EU: social partners in Europe’s food industry agree on guidelines to safeguard the health of workers in the sector
On 9 April, the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism sectors (EFFAT) and the European employer organisation FoodDrinkEurope agreed on guidelines to protect the...
15 April 2020
Germany: a tax-free Corona-Bonus for employees
Spring is the season of bonuses and other profit-sharing payouts, particularly in the automotive sector. Looking at the industry’s major manufacturers, bonuses amount to €5,900 at BMW...
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15 April 2020
Germany: agreement on health and safety conditions for resumption of production reached at Volkswagen
At Volkswagen, where the production of spare parts has partially resumed following the Easter weekend, management and the central works council at the German car manufacturer presented, on...
14 April 2020
Hungary: companies allowed to unilaterally extend reference period for calculating working time to two years
Under Hungary’s labour code, the reference period for calculating average working hours in the event of unequal distribution of working periods over the year is a maximum of 16 weeks, except...
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14 April 2020
Italy: Ferrari unveils innovative ‘Back on Track’ project ahead of activity recommencing
Drawn up in collaboration with a pool of virologists and experts, and with the support of the Emilia Romagna region, the ‘Back on Track’ project unveiled by Ferrari seeks to provide a safe...
14 April 2020
Belgium: employment conditions amended in ‘crucial’ sectors to support their continuation during the crisis
On Saturday 11 April, supporting the special powers granted to prime minister Sophie Wilmès, the Belgian cabinet and the presidents of ten parties in the country’s parliament approved a series of...
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14 April 2020
France: decree sets out procedure for social and economic committee meetings held via conference call and instant messaging
One of the urgent measures taken amid the Covid-19 crisis allows social and economic committees (CSE) to hold remote meetings, which constitutes an exemption from the French labour code, so these...
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14 April 2020
Italy: FCA and unions define health and safety conditions ahead of sites reopening
On Thursday 9 April the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles group (FCA) and all the Italian trade unions, including FIOM-Cgil, signed an agreement on guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which...
10 April 2020
Spain: government and social partners prepare for end of lockdown
Representatives of the CEOE and Cepyme employer organisations and of the CCOO and UGT trade unions have begun working with the government on an end to the period of lockdown, implemented to...
10 April 2020
EU: finance ministers give green light to financial support instrument for short-time work measures in member states
It is “in the spirit of solidarity and in light of the exceptional nature of the Covid-19 crisis” that the finance ministers of the European Union agreed, yesterday on 9 April, on the...
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10 April 2020
United Kingdom: BT hands pay rise to non-management staff amid Covid-19 crisis
With demand for telecommunications services having skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic, giant of the UK sector BT has expressed its gratitude to staff by handing a 1.5% pay rise to the...
10 April 2020
Germany: maximum working time can rise to 12 hours per day in ‘strategic’ sectors until the end of June 2020
On 09 April, Germany’s Federal Employment and Social Affairs and Health Ministries published the details of a new ordinance authorizing companies to raise the daily legal working time limit for...
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9 April 2020
Great Britain: an agreement allowing Rolls-Royce to return to work
On 08 April amid the coronavirus crisis, the trade union Unite revealed that it had negotiated a series of measures with the engineering giant that manufactures aircraft engines in order to...
9 April 2020
Belgium: various types of compensation for employees in the mass retail market
The mass retail sector has been under pressure since the very start of the health crisis. After an unsuccessful first round of sectoral negotiations that were undertaken at the end of March with...
9 April 2020
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025