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Portugal: latest working life developments Q2 2018

The new tripartite action plan to combat job insecurity and new measures to promote collective bargaining are the main topics of interest in this article. This country update reports on...

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Norway: latest working life developments Q2 2018

A settlement on pensions, amendments to the Working Environment Act, plans for a survey of foreign tour bus companies and a new report on working environments and occupational health are...

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The fraudulent contracting of work is an important issue in many European countries today. EU and national policymakers have turned their attention to violations of the basic protection provided by employment law and collective bargaining that are linked to the fraudulent use of certain employment

21 November 2016

This EurWORK topical update considers how EU Member States have dealt with transposing Directive 2014/67/EU to improve enforcement of European regulations as regards the posting of workers. The situation at mid-2016 is analysed, based on contributions and updates from Eurofound’s network of European

18 October 2016

This topical update on the protection of whistle-blowers in the EU mainly covers developments that have taken place in the years 2013–2016. The update covers international, European and national level legislation, and includes two case studies on the protection for whistle-blowers in Ireland and

19 August 2016

This topical update on the protection of whistle-blowers in the EU mainly covers developments that have taken place in the years 2013–2016. The update covers international, European and national level legislation, and includes two case studies on the protection for whistle-blowers in Ireland and

19 August 2016

This topical update on the protection of whistle-blowers in the EU mainly covers developments that have taken place in the years 2013–2016. The update covers international, European and national level legislation, and includes two case studies on the protection for whistle-blowers in Ireland and

19 August 2016

The right to free movement for workers within the European Union was enshrined in Article 48 of the EEC Treaty in 1957. Nowadays, private labour market intermediaries – such as temporary work agencies and employment placement agencies – contribute to facilitating this labour mobility in their role

27 April 2016

Smartphone car service Uber, a successful company example of the sharing economy, has spread to many EU Member States in recent years. However, many employers and unions are concerned about its challenge to fair competition for other businesses in the sector and about the erosion of working

25 January 2016

Temporary employment has increased since the 1980s in most European countries as a result of demands for greater flexibility in labour markets and subsequent reforms of employment protection legislation. This report presents a broad picture of temporary employment across the EU27 between 2001 and

15 December 2015

This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the computer programming, consultancy and related activities sector (NACE 62). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working

27 February 2015

This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the legal and accounting services sector (NACE 69). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of work

27 February 2015

Online resources results (200)

Committee on Employment Contracts Act submits proposals

A tripartite committee which has been working on a reform of Finland's Employment Contracts Act since 1995 submitted its proposals for a new Act in February 2000. The preparation of the proposed amendments involved many disagreements and during the final stage disputes centred especially around

Call for harmonisation of white- and blue-collar status

Belgium is one of the last countries in western Europe whose employment law makes distinctions between those who work with their hands (blue-collar [1] or manual workers) and those who perform "brainwork" (white-collar [2] or non-manual workers) The legal differences date back as far as the

Labour Procedural Code revised

In autumn 1999, a law revising the Labour Procedural Code has been approved by Portugal's Council of Ministers and now awaits affirmation by the President of the Republic and official publication. The upcoming changes in procedures for court cases on labour and employment issues involves a

Industrial relations changing quickly in sports sector

Sport is a growth industry in the Netherlands, and has attracted increasing attention from the government and trade unions. Furthermore, the Flexibility and Security Act, drastically changing Dutch law on employment contracts, which came into force in January 1999, sowed confusion among employers

Court acknowledges unions' right to bring cases against companies accused of contravening collective agreements

On 20 April 1999, the first senate of the German Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) issued a judgment (/1 ABR 72/98/) which acknowledged the right of trade unions to bring court cases against employers which they accuse of operating a company arrangement that contravenes a collective

Michelin takes the lead in negotiating working time flexibility

Worker representatives and the management of Michelin in Spain have used collective bargaining to adapt prevailing legislation to their own circumstances, by creating a contractual formula half way between the full-time and the part-time employment contract. The result, agreed in June 1998, is a

Government intends to reform law on temporary employment agencies

The Spanish government announced in April 1999 that it intends to reform the law on temporary employment agencies before the end of its term of office. Trade unions have for some time been calling for legal changes to improve the working conditions of agency employees, but the resistance of the

Bill aims to amend rules on non-competition clauses

In February 1999, the Danish Ministry of Labour (Arbejsministeriet) tabled a bill aimed at amending § 18 of the Salaried Employees Act (Funktionærloven) so as to restrict the use of "non-competition clauses" and "non-solicitation clauses" in contracts of employment.

Union fights breaches of working time regulations in banking

Over early 1999, the Greek Federation of Bank Employee Unions (OTOE) has given top priority to the perceived problem of breaches of contractual working time rules, along with violations of labour legislation and collective agreements, by banking employers. The union has called on the authorities to

Human rights and Norwegian labour law

A proposal to incorporate international declarations of basic human rights into the national legal framework was put before parliament on 9 October 1998 by the Norwegian government. The declarations have implications for labour law and industrial relations in a number of ways.


Blogs results (1)
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Seniority entitlements have largely been on the decline since the 1990s, and have been gradually phased-out from legislation in Europe, as well as in collective agreements. However, it would be premature to dismiss seniority-based entitlements as a thing of the past, as they remain in force across

17 Duben 2019

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