EU & Labour Law
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Commission: New health and safety rules needed for high-quality jobs
Telework and the right to disconnect, algorithmic management and artificial intelligence as well as new occupational health and safety risks are just some of the areas the European Commission wants to address in the proposed Quality Jobs Act it plans to put forward.
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Algorithmic camera surveillance of drivers breached the General Data Protection Regulation
Continuous camera surveillance of employed drivers, combined with automatic detection of things like mobile telephone use, being inattentive and not using safety belts, breached the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR). This is the conclusion of the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY) in a ruling concerning Securitas’ use of cameras in company vehicles.
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Ryanair signs its first collective agreement with a Swedish union
For the first time, low-cost airline Ryanair has signed a formal collective agreement with a Swedish trade union, the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union. The agreement offers a small measure of consolation for the Swedish model after IF Metall was forced to end its three-year strike against Tesla without success.
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Norwegian municipalities pay price for lack of working condition control in procurement
Ten Norwegian municipalities have experienced first-hand that the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority is now using its new “muscles” to tackle labour market crime.
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Overtime pay for part-time workers remains a difficult issue in Norway
In Norway, the question of overtime pay for part-time employees working additional hours is far from solved, unlike in Sweden and Denmark. A working group has now been given the difficult task of coming up with proposed solutions.
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Swedish government defies EU on equal pay rules
Sweden will not implement the EU’s so-called Pay Transparency Directive in its current form. The directive must be renegotiated in its entirety, the Swedish government argues.
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Anticlimax for Polish company hoping for Laval 2.0
In the end, it proved an anticlimax for the Polish company Meron which had been preparing a new Laval-style case in the Swedish Labour Court. Meron was unable to prove that IF Metall had taken the kind of action which the Polish company claimed the union had.
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Maternity protection ruling triggers wider claims against the Swedish state
The fallout is now being felt from the Swedish Labour Court’s ruling on how Sweden has implemented the EU’s Pregnant Workers Directive.
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Why the EU’s minimum wage ruling is good news for the Nordic labour market model
It is now clear that our labour market model is holding up and that we can carry on as usual. That was the overall reaction in the Nordic countries, even though Denmark largely lost the case in which it had sought to have the EU Court of Justice annul the EU minimum wage directive.
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ETUC says no
Yes, BusinessEurope would like to discuss the possibility of negotiating with the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) on parts of this. That was the employer organisation’s answer to the questions raised by the European Commission in the second round of consultations on telework and the right to disconnect. This time, however, ETUC says no.
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