Randstad published the Workmonitor 2022, the first full survey of 2022 that addresses issues such as job flexibility, work life balance, personal and professional growth and corporate social responsibilities (CSR) in the context of the recovery from the pandemic.
The survey was conducted between 21 February and 13 March 2022 in more than 30 countries worldwide.
The Social Division of the Supreme Court upheld the appropriateness of the installation, for the sole purpose of identifying and dismissing workers who had vandalised various vending machines, of hidden cameras in the canteen of a work centre.
Even though the workers had not been previously informed of the installation of the cameras, the seriousness of the acts committed by the workers justified their disciplinary dismissal for breach of contract.
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 17 December 2021, delivery platform Just Eat and the CCOO and UGT trade union confederations signed the first collective agreement for food delivery workers in Spain.
It regulates wages, working time and conditions and came into force in January 2022.
On 17 December 2021, delivery platform Just Eat and the CCOO and UGT trade union confederations signed the first collective agreement for food delivery workers in Spain.
It regulates wages, working time and conditions and came into force in January 2022.
In Spain, on 24 December 2021, trade unions, employers’ associations and the Government reached a triangular agreement on labour reform.
After approval in the Council of Ministers, the agreement was translated into Royal Decree-Law No. 32/2021 of 28 December 2021 on urgent measures for labour reform, guarantee for stable employment and transformation of the job market.
The research report has been produced in the context of a project entitled ‘The definition of worker in the platform economy’ (CES/FSA/09/2020) commissioned by the workers’ group of the European Economic and Social Committee.
The final report aims to contribute to the debate on platform workers’ risk and regulatory solutions.
New Ways of Working is a new comparative reference tool developed by International Employment Lawyer,providing information on key employment and compliance topics (such as vaccinations, legislation on remote work and social relations) in 20 countries around the world.
It enables multinational employers to compare different legal systems and their approach to the pandemic and new ways of working that recently developed.