Recent EU news

In Q2 2020, 801,700 people aged over 15 in the European Union (EU) were employed in the sports and fitness sector, representing 0 …

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Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden have extended border controls until at least April 2021 …

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Employers frequently regard employee monitoring as a labour relations matter and overlook that it is closely controlled under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) …

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The “right to disconnect” remains a controversial issue …

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This is a first reminder to employers with 50+ employees that by 17th December 2021 they will have to have set up a fully operational whistleblowing scheme under Directive 2019/1937 to protect persons reporting breaches under European Union Law …

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The European Commission has sprung new driving regulations on road transport operators, which took effect on 20th August 2020 …

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A number of European Union countries such as France, Lithuania, and Slovakia continue to operate language laws that outlaw the use of foreign languages, even if they are the common language of the parties concerned …

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The European Commission launched its latest action plan earlier this year under the banner of “Human Rights and Democracy” …

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Although the European Union has no authority under its Treaty to dictate wage levels (or the process of reaching them), it continues to try to do so …

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The European Commission is hell-bent on increasing unionisation across the EU, and doing so at every opportunity …

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There is now evidence that one effect of the lockdown may have been to cool the growing inflation of labour costs, particularly in Eastern Europe …

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A European “Social Partner Framework Agreement on Digitalisation” published this June comes about 30 years too late and is as irrelevant and unwelcome now as it would have been then …

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The deadline for the revised EU Posting of Workers Directive (2018/957/EU) is the end of July 2020 …

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A new “European Pact on Immigration and Asylum” announced in January 2020 was put back to this Summer due to the health crisis …

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The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is not an organisation that cuts across anyone’s path too often, but it has produced its own useful, if sometimes over-detailed and impractical, set of guidelines on “returning to safe work” (in pdf form) …

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