Tag: Europe

September 20, 2023

The EU Platform Workers Directive would reclassify drivers and couriers working for Uber and similar companies as employees, giving them full working rights. Currently, the majority of platform workers in the EU are classified as self-employed, even though they have […]

June 13, 2023

The research also found that workers’ confidence in the UK job market has plummeted, bucking an upward trend on the continent. Gallup’s 2023 research revealed that the UK remains one of the least engaged workforces in Europe, ranking 33 out […]

April 11, 2023

If you had any doubts about the disruptive nature of generative artificial intelligence, the arrival of ChatGPT should have put them to bed. The language processing tool has been a runaway hit since its launch by OpenAI last November, and […]

March 6, 2023

A European Union (EU) law requiring gender balance on corporate boards was adopted by the European Parliament on Nov. 22, 2022. The directive requires that listed companies have 40 percent of nonexecutive directors, or 33 percent of all directors, be […]

February 24, 2023

A U.S.-based employer faced legal consequences after it terminated a remote employee in the Netherlands who refused to keep his camera on for the whole nine-hour workday. The Dutch Court held that the dismissal of the employee was illegal, in […]

February 8, 2023

In 2022, a man sued the U.K. supermarket chain Sainsbury’s after one of its stores refused to let his emotional support animal (ESA), a cat, enter with him. The case is still unresolved, as is the question of ESAs and […]

December 13, 2022

Sweden recently implemented major changes in employment law touching on workforce reductions, firing disputes, fixed-term employment and staffing agency workers. Significant updates to the Swedish Employment Protection Act (EPA) provide new protections to workers and benefits for employers. “The new […]

August 5, 2022

The rules set out minimum standards for paternity, parental and carers’ leave, and have established rights such as working fathers being entitled to at least 10 working days of paternity leave around the time of birth of the child, compensated […]

July 20, 2022

On May 4, the German Conference of the Federal and State Data Protection Authorities (DSK) published a call for an Employee Data Protection Act. As a reminder, in Germany, data protection is organized by state. There are state data protection […]

April 8, 2022

The German Federal Social Court has ruled that an employee who slipped and fell on his way from bed to his home office was protected by statutory accident insurance. Other countries treat home office accidents differently. During the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

March 8, 2022

Employees of multinational firms remaining in Russia have been advised by global health and security consultancy International SOS that they face considerable risks. Mick Sharp, chief operating officer, security services at the firm, told Personnel Today that these individuals should […]

November 20, 2020

One effect of COVID-19 has been a sharp increase in businesses’ use of remote surveillance solutions to protect corporate resources and monitor the productivity and behavior of employees working away from the office for the foreseeable future. Although such tools […]

January 9, 2020

When HR leaders think about gender discrimination in the workplace, they tend to picture being passed over for promotions or outright sexual harassment, but new research on workers in the EU shows that a wide spectrum of discrimination concerns can […]