On 17 October 2022, the European Council approved the EU Directive , which aims to promote a balanced gender representation on the boards of listed companies.
The Directive stipulates that members of the under-represented sex should hold at least 40% of non-executive board positions in listed companies by 2026.
The proposal to revise the Employment Protection Act (EPA), presented on June 2021, was finally adopted.
The reform described as the “greatest reform of Swedish employment law in modern times” entered into force on 30 June 2022 and applied for the first time as of 1 October 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.