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When employers implement systems involving AI and algorithms, they may have obligations to inform or consult employees. Spain In recent years, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) systems have been introducing a constant stream of changes in the management of business services and activities with a direct impact on working conditions. These changes are taking place outside the traditional scheme of employee participation in the company…
The European Union is moving forward with plans to implement rules on sustainable corporate governance, with supply chain due diligence obligations in relation to both environmental issues and human rights. Human rights and environmental standards are important, but need actual enforcement to be truly meaningful. Actual global enforcement is not easily achieved and governments seem to rely more and more on multinational businesses with global…
French employee representative bodies, Social and Economic Committees, have a new role scrutinising the environmental implication of employers’ projects. The Social and Economic Committee (CSE) is the employee representation body in France, composed of elected staff members (elections take place every four years in principle), in companies with at least 11 employees. The Committee’s prerogatives are much greater in companies with at least 50 employees:…
What types of legal claim may employees with menopause symptoms be able to pursue in the UK, and how can employers foster a supportive culture to reduce that risk? With World Menopause Day approaching on 18 October 2021 and growing media interest in the topic, it is perhaps unsurprising that Employment Tribunal (ET) claims are increasingly citing issues concerning menopause. According to data from the Menopause…
On 9 September 2021, President Biden announced a US COVID-19 Action Plan comprised of six main components. This article focuses on the ‘Vaccinating the Unvaccinated’ component and its impact on employers. According to President Biden, almost 80 million Americans who are eligible to be vaccinated have not received their first shot. He has directed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop a rule…
This guide provides nine practical tips to prepare employers for employment-related litigation in Russia. A peculiarity of labour disputes in Russia is that they seldom start with great financial demands from employees. They are more about the status of the organisation, its reputation and similar issues. However, practice shows that given the length and formality of litigation, financial claims, originally insignificant, can turn into fairly…
From 1 July 2021 the rules for paternity leave in France have changed: new fathers are now entitled to 25 days’ leave. After the birth of a child, the employed father and, if applicable, the mother’s employed spouse or partner or the employee linked to her by a PACS (civil partnership) agreement are entitled to 25 calendar days’ paternity and childcare leave or 32 calendar…
The New Zealand Government has announced that New Zealand will move into an Alert Level 4 Lockdown in response to a recent instance of community transmission of the Delta variant of COVID-19. On Tuesday 17 August 2021, New Zealand’s first case of COVID-19 community transmission in six months and first community transmission of the Delta variant was confirmed. As a result, the Government announced that…
In a keenly awaited judgement, the Australian High Court has ruled that a ‘casual’ employee is one who does not have a firm commitment to ongoing work, and that this will be assessed by reference to the terms of the employee’s contract. The High Court has now handed down its much-anticipated decision in the Rossato case. It has determined that the mine worker who brought the case…
The UK government has published its promised national disability strategy setting out various steps it will take to remove barriers faced by disabled people in their lives. This article looks at the main work-related measures. The background In the latest Family Resources Survey (2019/20), over 14 million people in the UK (one in five) reported a disability, which was an increase of 2.7 million since 2009 to…