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Social responsibility in sub-contracting chains
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- April 23 2009
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling for more social responsibility in sub-contracting chains, in particular the need for legislation introducing joint and several liability to deal with the cross-border dimensions of sub-contracting
Other European news in brief
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- August 20 2009
On 1 July 2009 France’s national minimum hourly wage increased from 8.71 to 8.82
Parental leave could increase to four months
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- August 20 2009
European employer and trade union representatives (the so-called "Social Partners") have recently agreed that the minimum period of parental leave should increase from three to four months
Other news in brief
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- October 22 2010
The European Commission has confirmed that a second-stage consultation with Social Partners on proposals to amend the Working Time Directive (principally in relation to the maximum 48-hour working week opt-out and on-call time) will take place this Autumn
ECJ rules Spanish “breastfeeding” law unjustified
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Spain
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- October 22 2010
In Spain female employees are allowed to take time off work - up to an hour during the day or a half-hour reduction in the working day - to feed a baby under nine months of age
German compulsory retirement age is lawful, says ECJ
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Germany
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- October 22 2010
Earlier this month the ECJ gave a welcome boost to employers looking to retain a contractual retirement age when it confirmed that a provision in a collective agreement requiring employees to retire at 65 was lawful
Service-related statutory notice provision held to be discriminatory
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, Germany
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- February 25 2010
The notice periods to be given by employers terminating an employee's employment under German law are regulated in Paragraph 622(2) of the German Civil Code
Europe-wide concern about workplace stress
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- June 14 2010
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has published a document entitled the 'European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks' which reveals that although four out of five European managers are concerned about work-related stress issues, less than a third of employers have procedures in place to deal with stress
“Having a sickly time. weather awful...”
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union, United Kingdom
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- October 29 2009
The recent European Court of Justice decision in Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA that a worker who is sick during his statutory annual leave is entitled to take a replacement period of leave at a later date (even outside the current leave year) has caused much consternation amongst employers and HR teams in particular, not the least because of the potential for abuse and the additional cost implications
EU economic growth resumes
- Squire Sanders
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- European Union
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- February 25 2010
According to the European Commission's 'EU Employment Situation and Social Outlook' monthly monitor for February 2010, economic growth has resumed in the European Union, although the recovery remains fragile
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