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Part 3: No Time to Hire: Will Agentic AI Transform the Workplace?

DLA Piper on 7/29/2025

The advent of agentic AI is widely predicted to have a significant impact on the workforce, with it automating tasks currently performed by humans once believed to be beyond automation. This will lead to humans working...more

NAVEX’s 2025 Hotline Benchmark Report

The Volkov Law Group on 7/29/2025

NAVEX dominates the hotline market. Given its global footprint, NAVEX has access to a large database of employee reports. Building on this unique perspective, NAVEX provides an annual report analyzing the employee reporting...more

Nanterre Court of Justice Issues First Decision About Introduction of AI in the Workplace in France

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/19/2025

For the first time, a French court has ruled on the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) processes within a company....more

Pay Transparency vs Pay Privacy: How to Succeed in Both

Ius Laboris on 4/10/2025

The EU Pay Transparency Directive (’PTD’) introduces extensive disclosure obligations regarding salary information. At the same time, employers must ensure compliance with the applicable data protection regulations and...more

EU Pay Transparency Directive: Ireland Joins the Frontrunners

Ius Laboris on 4/7/2025

As the June 2026 deadline for the implementation of the EU Pay Transparency Directive looms ever closer, Ireland has become the fourth EU member state to take steps towards transposing some of the requirements of the...more

Layoffs in Germany & Poland: Differences & Similarities

Littler on 3/13/2025

As layoff procedures in Poland and Germany are anchored in the same EU Directive, their national regulations are similar in direction, but they still have their own flavor and local specificity. Germany and Poland share...more

EU’s Pay Equity Directive: 5 Key Points Employers Need to Know

Fisher Phillips on 3/13/2025

Employers with operations in the European Union should ensure they are familiar with a pay equity directive aiming to close the gender pay gap that will soon come fully online. The directive was signed into law in 2023, and...more

Ruling by German Labour Court Limits Unions’ Digital Access Rights

Ius Laboris on 3/6/2025

Since the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting move toward home office for many employees, unions have been looking for ways to enter employers virtually, in order to get in touch with their members and to attract new members...more

Dutch Employment know how update

Hogan Lovells on 9/2/2022

This update provides an overview of the latest important developments in Dutch Employment legislation and case law. On 5 July 2022, the Dutch House of Representatives adopted the legislative proposal for the Work Where You...more

Deadline Approaching for European Union Employers to Adopt Modernized Working Conditions

Fisher Phillips on 6/6/2022

The European Union’s Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions Directive (TPWC) released in 2019 is quickly approaching its August 2 transposition deadline, by which date each Member State will have to pass legislation...more

Impfen am Arbeitsplatz – Unternehmen stehen in den Startlöchern, aber es gibt Hürden

Hogan Lovells on 5/4/2021

Viele deutsche Unternehmen sind nach eigener Aussage schon bereit zum Impfen. Einige wollen eigene Impfstraßen aufsetzen, um das Impfgeschehen in ihrem Betrieb und damit auch in Deutschland voranzubringen. In vielen...more

Wie setzen Arbeitgeber effektive Anreize für die Wahrnehmung von Impfangeboten?

Hogan Lovells on 4/16/2021

Unternehmen haben ein großes Interesse an der Schutzimpfung ihrer Arbeitnehmer*innen gegen Covid-19. Natürlich steht die Gesundheit dabei als höchstes Gut im Vordergrund. Flächendeckende Impfungen der eigenen Belegschaft...more

Impfen am Arbeitsplatz – Haftung des Arbeitgebers?

Hogan Lovells on 4/1/2021

Bereits in unserem Eingangsbeitrag haben wir auf die vielen Aspekte hingewiesen, um die sich der Arbeitgeber vor Impfungen am Arbeitsplatz kümmern muss. Ganz wesentliche Faktoren müssen aber vorrangig geklärt werden. ...more

COVID-19 Vaccinations and Considerations for European Employers

Jones Day on 3/12/2021

The Situation: With COVID-19 vaccination campaigns underway throughout Europe, employers are now evaluating how the availability of vaccines may impact their own workforce, including whether they can make vaccination...more

Daily Registration of Employee Working Time in the European Union: Practical Recommendations for Employers

Jones Day on 11/21/2019

The Situation: On May 14, 2019, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued a Judgment mandating that EU Member States require employers to register the daily working time of their employees. The...more

Data Protection Alert - How data protection impacts labor law

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 11/29/2017

One of the aspects of digitalization is that it blurs the lines between personal and professional lives of employees. Such acknowledgement is reflected in EU and French laws, notably with regard to teleworking and the right...more

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