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Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
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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
The European Council recently approved a regulation that will ban products in the European Union that were made using forced labor. The new regulation covers products made with forced labor across the globe that are placed...more
Pay equity and pay transparency are becoming increasingly important to global organisations. The European Union’s pay transparency directive is a landmark piece of legislation for organisations with employees across the...more
Poland and other EU countries will have to implement the principles of equal pay and transparency into their laws by June 7, 2026, to comply with Directive (EU) 2023/970 of the European Parliament and Council of May 10, 2023,...more
Whilst not traditionally a focus of the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), the UK’s labour markets now form one of the CMA’s strategic priorities, as outlined in its 2023 to 2024 Annual Plan....more
On 9 December 2021, the European Commission presented a proposal for a directive aimed at harmonizing the legal status of platform workers in the European Union, in particular by establishing a presumption of salaried status....more
Denmark’s parliament recently received an agreement between the Danish Trade Union Confederation and the Confederation of Danish Employers on proposing an expansion of paternity and maternity leave. This September 13, 2021...more
On November 24, 2021, the “traffic light” coalition, consisting of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), the Free Democratic Party (FDP), and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (the Greens), reached an agreement on its coalition...more
The European Union (EU) has recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina as a potential candidate country for joining the EU. To prepare for joining the EU, Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to the so-called Reform Agenda of 2015 – 2018,...more
Belgium has spent much of the last 12 months without a government following gridlock in coalition negotiations after the general election in May 2019. As such, there has not been any new legislation covering employment law....more
The following alert is directed to organizations with a presence in the UK or who anticipate the need to place employees at a U.K. worksite. Seyfarth Shaw’s Global Mobility Practice hosts attorneys licensed to practice in...more
The European Court of Justice recently held that EU member states must require employers to set up an “objective, reliable, and accessible system” to measure each worker’s daily working hours in order to satisfy the Working...more
Well, first of all, the UK is going to get Brexit done! What this will feel like after years of wrangling will remain to be seen. There are some reports that Boris Johnson’s newly elected government is squaring up for a...more
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
Court Holds Member States Must Require Employers to Adopt Systems to Record All Employee Working Time - Precedential Decision by Judiciary or Regulatory Agency - On May 14, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ)...more
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on 14 May in Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras v Deutsche Bank SAE, which called into question the validity of member states’ implementation of the European Union’s...more
The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") recently ruled that all employers in EU Member States must implement a daily registry of employee working hours. This White Paper chronicles the judicial history that led to this landmark...more
In Federacion de Servicios de Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) v Deutsche Bank SAE (C-55/18), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that, in order to comply with the provisions of the EU Working Time Directive (the Directive)...more
According to a recent decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) (May 14, 2019 – C-55/18), the Member States of the EU must oblige employers to systematically record the working time of their employees. Only in this way...more
Nur selten finden Entscheidungen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) so viel mediale Aufmerksamkeit wie das Urteil zur Arbeitszeiterfassung vom 14. Mai 2019: Der EuGH hat entschieden, dass die Arbeitszeitrichtlinie (EU-RL...more
On May 15, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a groundbreaking judgment in a court case between a Spanish trade union and the Spanish subsidiary of Deutsche Bank....more
From April this year, any company with UK operations comprising 250 workers or more will have to publish details of their gender pay gap information. Organisations must publically report how much, on average, is the pay...more
When Do the ‘Self-Employed’ Qualify for National Minimum Wage and Holiday Pay? This is a hot topic at the moment with three large employers under scrutiny for their pay structures: Uber, the transport company, has...more
The potential that Britain will exit the European Union (“Brexit”) after an upcoming referendum on June 23 raises issues for employers. The EU is a major source of current UK employment law. The laws relating to...more