Global issues such as climate change, employment and a just transition to a sustainable and inclusive future are some of the topics addressed at their last meeting by the G7 leaders, who confirmed their commitment to cooperating with international organisations to achieve these goals.
The same commitment was expressed by EU Member States, that presented their national targets to deliver on the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan by 2030. It aims to reach the three EU headline targets for employment, skills and poverty reduction.
European social partners also released a work programme 2022-24 for the negotiation of an updated legally binding agreement on the ‘Telework and right to disconnect’ that considers the digitalisation developments and the learnings from the sanitary crisis. Telework is is also the subject of a new bill in the Netherlands, which enshrines homeworking as a legal right for the first time.
We shed light on the growing phenomenon of workplace absenteeism and how employers can address it, as well as the results of the Staffing Executive Regulatory Outlook (SERO) 2022, that assesses the potential impact of regulatory changes on the staffing industry in the coming next months.
In Florida, the Stop Woke Act came into force, making it unlawful for employers to host mandatory employee trainings that promote certain concepts related to discrimination, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Diversity&Inclusion policies are confirmed as one of the main challenges for HR managers, according to a report by the Cegos Observatory of April 2022.
We report on the implementation of the EU Working Conditions Directive in Germany, a court decision on a dismissal undergrounds of sexual harassment in a court of Canada and one on the nature of the relationship between platform and a delivery personin Taiwan..
In Japan, for the first, time a Court requested a digital platform to disclose its algorithm, confirming the the absolute topicality and importance of the issue, which is also the subject of important developments in Spain. The Ministry of Employment and Social Security published guidelines on “Algorithmic data in a labor environment,” detailing the main obligations companies must comply with when using automated decision-making systems and algorithms in the workplace.
Finally, we report the announced changes in the working time and wage system in South Korea, aiming to reach more flexilibity in the post-pandemic era.