State Duma of Russian Federation adopted amendments to the Labour Code in December 2020
The new legislation contains rules on employers’ and employees’ obligations in case of telework, as well as new regulation on the use of the electronic signature
In Vietnam, labour laws, policies and practices are going through significant changes. A new labour code entered into force in January 2021
New policies put greater emphasis on social dialogue at the workplace, collective bargaining and diversified types of Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)
In January 2021 Belgian social partners signed a framework agreement on methods of work, working conditions and occupational health and safety for employees working from remote
The agreement leaves room to further agreements at the company level or specific individual agreement
The GFMD 2021 Summit dealt with the topic of “The future of human mobility: innovative partnerships for sustainable development”
The representative of employers, the Business Advisory Group on Migration, presented a series of six recommendations, including enhanced public-private cooperation, improved legal pathways for employment and better leveraging of technology
The database on up-to-2020 collective bargaining processes for wage-setting and minimum wages on 56 OECD/non- OECD countries was released
The database provides comparable data on trade union and employers’ organisations density as well as on the role played by these actors in each collective bargaining system
In February 2021, the European Labour Authority (ELA) announced to be fully operational to conduct concerted and joint labour inspections
A set of simplified standard procedures for national authorities and social partners on how to initiate and follow-up cross-border inspections was issued
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