Recent EU news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the European Union as reported in our fortnightly newswire.
European Union: 2.3% of EU employees have a precarious job
According to latest Eurostat figures, in the year 2016 a total of 2 …
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European Union: People at risk of poverty
One in every six part-time workers in the EU are at risk of poverty because they earn less than 60% of the median wage …
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European Union: People living in households with very low work intensity
The percentage of people under 60 years of age living in households with very low work intensity (where the adults work less than 20% of their total work potential during the past year) varies significantly across the European Union …
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European Union: Youth unemployment
Over the year to November 2017, unemployment amongst those aged under 25 decreased by 429,000 across the European Union to 3 …
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European Union: Employees may claim statutory rights where they habitually work
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the appropriate national court to hear an employment case shall be primarily that location where the employee habitually performs their duties …
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European Union: Average hourly labour costs rose Q3 2017
Average hourly labour costs rose over the year to Q3 2017 in the business sector of the EU economy by 2 …
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European Union: Guidelines on consent and guidelines on transparency
There can be few greater nightmares facing European companies than the GDPR …
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EU/Japan: Free trade deal
The European Union and Japan have concluded a new economic union …
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European Union: Self-employed workers can claim compensation for untaken holidays
The European Court of Justice has ruled that where a worker was misclassified as self-employed and later found to have been employed they may claim for reimbursement for untaken holiday – even if they had not actually taken unpaid holiday …
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European Union: Macroeconomic scoreboard data
The European Commission has just published its first macroeconomic scoreboard data analyses giving early warning signs of serious future problems …
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European Union: Work-Life Balance Directive
The European Commission is currently finalising the draft of a new ‘Work-Life Balance Directive’ …
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European Union: Porras Guisado v Bankia SA and others (C-102/16)
Advocate General Sharpston, recommeded to the European Court of Justice in September (Porras Guisado v Bankia SA and others (C-102/16)) that a Spanish pregnant worker should be protected from unfair treatment, discrimination and dismissal even before she has informed her employer about her pregnancy …
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European Union: Revision of the Written Statement Directive (1991)
The European Commission is drafting a revision of the Written Statement Directive (1991) which obliges employers to provide in writing certain terms and conditions to new employees …
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European Union: Amendment to the Posting of Workers Directive
The EU Council of Ministers has now approved an amendment to the Posting of Workers Directive that would require employers in the host country to pay local pay rates in full, thus making it uneconomic to employ otherwise less costly workers from Eastern Europe …
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European Union: Failure to assess risks to breastfeeding employees is sex discrimination
In Elda Otero Ramos v Servicio Galego De Saude C-2017/789 (decision on 19/10/2017), the European Court of Justice established that the refusal to accommodate an employee’s breastfeeding request amounts to direct discrimination on gender grounds …
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