El 17 de octubre de 2022, el Consejo Europeo aprobó la Directiva de la UE que pretende fomentar una representación de géneros equilibrada en los consejos de administración de las sociedades cotizadas.
La Directiva estipula que los miembros del sexo menos representado deben ocupar como mínimo el 40 % de los puestos de administrador no ejecutivo en las sociedades cotizadas a más tardar en 2026.
La propuesta de revisar la Ley de Protección del Empleo (EPA), presentada en junio de 2021, se adoptó finalmente.
La reforma, descrita como «la mayor reforma de la legislación laboral sueca de la era moderna», entró en vigor el 30 de junio de 2022 y se aplicó por primera vez el 1 de octubre de 2022.
On 23 June 2022, the German parliament passed a bill to implement the Working Conditions Directive (EU) 2019/1152 into German law.
The German Bundestag passed the draft law (BT-Drs. 20/1636, 20/2245) in the committee version (20/2392). If Bundesrat passes it without any objections, the new law will come into force as of 1 August 2022.
On 26 June 2022, G7 Leaders, at the end of their annual Summit, confirmed their commitment to addressing global challenges as growing inequity, achieving gender equality, the rising cost of living, climate change, pandemic preparedness and the need for a just transition to a sustainable and inclusive future.
Most of European Member States failed to transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive within the established deadline of December 2021.
European Commission already sent a formal notice to 24 Members for the lack of transposition and to Sweden and Portugal for their delay in the application.
On 8 December 2021, the Labour Tribunal of Brussels ruled that Deliveroo riders should not be qualified as employees, but rather as self-employed workers.
It is the first ruling on the labour relationship qualification of workers in the platform economy by a labour tribunal or court in Belgium.