Newsletter October, 2022

Apicil launches an e-learning module to sensitise people to diversity in the workplace

The APICIL Group supports the creation and development of "Voyage en diversitésS", an e-module to raise awareness of diversity in companies.
It confirms Apicil’s commitment to inclusion in the workplace.

Paychex Released 2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report

On 29 September 2022, Paychex released its 2022 Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report, detailing the progress the company made as well as new initiatives related to the nine pillars of the ESG programme: Ethics, Governance, Privacy and security, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Employees, Environment, Community, Empowering businesses and Occupational Safety.

A new policy brief on mental health at work, developed jointly by World Health Organisation (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), provides a pragmatic framework for implementing the WHO guidelines on mental health at work.
The publication is part of the wider WHO “Guidelines on mental health at work”.

On 3 October 2022, The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the World Employment Confederation (WEC) released a new report on Diverse forms of work in the platform economy.
It outlines the regulatory context, benefits and challenges of platform work, providing detailed insights and information on how it has become an enduring feature of labour markets.

Randstad recently released its “Gender equality in the workplace 2022” report, based on the surveys of 6,000 workers across the construction, education, healthcare and technology sectors.
It aims to gain detailed insight into the status quo of UK workplaces and assess the persistence of gender discrimination.

A new paper by the International Labour Organization (ILO), Pay transparency legislation: Implications for employers’ and workers’ organizations, published on September 2022, shows that pay transparency measures can help to address the gender pay gap and reduce broader gender inequalities in the labour market.

As we previously reported, following the proposal for a "Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union", published on October 2020, last June, the EU Council and the European Parliament reached an agreement for adequate minimum wages in the European Union (EU), aiming to guarantee decent living standards for workers.
On 14 September 2022, the European Parliament approved the Directive with 505 votes in favour, 92 against and 44 abstentions.