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EU: supporting Member States as they combat the coronavirus
The EU wasted no time in unfolding its arsenal of budget measures to help support its Member States face the coronavirus crisis. On 13 March an EU Commission proposal mobilised funds for a crisis...
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18 March 2020
Argentina: initial measures limiting the freedom of movement plus recommendations to work remotely
Maximum effort to avoid the virus spreading during the initial development stages. On 16 March Argentina announced a series of measures aimed at avoiding the scenarios being experienced in Europe...
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18 March 2020
Great Britain: London augments financial support for businesses facing coronavirus
On 17 March, not even a week after the UK budget was presented that included a package of business-friendly measures, Rishi Sunak, the UK’s recently appointed UK Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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18 March 2020
Italy: €25 billion in Government support for businesses families and the health system
At a time when whole sectors of Italy’s economy have had to come to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, on Monday 16 March the Council of Ministers adopted a decree-law, albeit not yet...
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17 March 2020
Sweden: a package of support measures for companies and employees facing the coronavirus
In the week starting 16 March, Sweden’s government presented parliament with a series of measures to be definitively adopted on 19 March that seek to enable employers and employees to cope with...
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17 March 2020
Austria: Federal government announces Covid-19 support including ‘partial unemployment’
On 13 March, Austria’s government announced €4 billion would be directed to support independent workers, maintain employment, and help businesses avoid insolvency in the face of the Covid-19...
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17 March 2020
United States: the UAW and automakers set up a task force to tackle the coronavirus
The United Auto Workers union (UAW), together with US automakers has decided to set up a task force to address the coronavirus, the objective being to implement stronger protection measures for...
17 March 2020
Germany: law to faciliate short-time working measures adopted by the Bundestag with retroactive effect from 1 March
The law, which extends and facilitates access to short-time working measures to help businesses manage the Covid-19 crisis, was passed by the Bundestag on Friday 13 March, having been urgently...
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16 March 2020
Portugal: simplified short-time working scheme and other business support measures adopted to tackle the coronavirus crisis
The new simplified regime enters into force on 16 March 2020 in order to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. The package of extraordinary measures adopted on 13 March also includes social...
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16 March 2020
Italy: social partners sign protocol on measures to battle coronavirus in the workplace
Pressed by the government to establish uniform guidelines to guarantee the safety of employees in the workplace, the Cgil, Cisl and Uil unions and the employer organisations Confindustria, Confapi...
16 March 2020
Spain: employer and union organisations come together to demand exceptional measures to quickly ease impact of coronavirus
The CCOO and UGT trade unions, as well as the employer confederations CEOE and Cepyme, have together drawn up a document setting out their joint proposals for dealing with the coronavirus and...
13 March 2020
Argentina: new waves of branch negotiations to take place against ever uncertain backdrop
Sectoral wage negotiations are in full swing in Argentina, against an economic backdrop that is as uncertain as it is tough. These are the first such talks to take place since the centre-left...
13 March 2020
Great Britain: a coronavirus themed budget
As expected, Covid-19 was the main focus for the new Chancellor, Rishi Sunak’s first budget that he presented to parliament on 11 March. In it £30 billion (€34.1 billion) will be used to bolster...
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12 March 2020
United States: coronavirus outbreak highlights inequalities in paid sick leave and relaunches debate on sick leave rights
Until now the US has opposed paid sick leave. This stance may be changing as the coronavirus takes a grip over the nation. Democrats are putting forward draft sick-leave legislation and the...
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11 March 2020
Poland: fast track legislation comes into force to counter the coronavirus
On 08 March 2020, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda promulgated legislation combatting the coronavirus. It took the country’s parliament less than a week to formulate this legislation...
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10 March 2020
Argentina: exceptional leave period in place to counter work-related spread of the coronavirus
Argentina’s Labor Minister Claudio Moroni has signed Resolution Number 178 that allows employees returning from a known coronavirus country to take 14 days of leave (licencia excepcional)...
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10 March 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