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Newsletter March, 2024

Netherlands: House of Representatives has started debating the Bill on the Admission of Workers on Posting (Wtta)

March, 2024
Newsletter January, 2024

Canada: Federal Government’s Legislation Prohibiting REplacement workers (a Fasken’s contribution)

January, 2024
Newsletter November, 2023

UK: The Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act has been passed

November, 2023
  • On 19 September 2023, The Workers (Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act received Royal Assent.
  • The bill proposes new provisions in the Employment Rights Act 1996 aiming to give workers on atypical contracts and agency workers the right to request more predictable terms and conditions of work.
Newsletter October, 2023

Italy: A Decision on indirect gender discrimination in job advertisements

October, 2023
  • On 3 July 2023, the Supreme Court confirmed the principle that the stipulation of equal height for men and women (1.60m) as a requirement for employment constitutes indirect discrimination against women. 
  • The same requirement is neither objectively justified nor relevant and proportional to the duties deriving from the qualification attributed.
Newsletter August, 2023

Italy: law converting Decree No. 48/2023 [Employment Decree] published in the Official Gazette

August, 2023
  • On 3 July 2023, Law 85 converting, with amendments, the Decree Law 48/2023 on "Urgent measures for social inclusion and access to employment" was published in the Official Gazette.
  • It aims to ensure greater flexibility for personnel management, introduces amendments to the discipline of fixed-term employment contracts and simplifies information obligations under the Transparency Decree.

UK: is unlawful to cover strikes with agency workers

August, 2023
  • On 13 July 2023, the High Court ruled that the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2022, which removed the ban to hire agency workers while workers were on strike , are unlawful.
  • The ruling will enter into force as from 10 August 2023.
Newsletter June, 2023

Germany: a decision on agency work after the preliminary ruling of the European Court of Justice

June, 2023
  • On 31 May 2023, the German Federal Labour (Bundesarbeitsgericht) rejected the claim of a German agency worker. It confirmed that the German collective labour agreement aligns with the EU Directive on temporary agency work.
  • It follows the preliminary ruling of the European Court of Justice of 22 December 2022 case C-311/21. 
Newsletter February, 2023

USA: New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy (D) signed into law the “Temporary Worker Bill of Rights

February, 2023
  • On 6 February 2023, New Jersey Governor signed into law Assembly Bill No. A1474 / S511,1, known as the "Temporary Worker Bill of Rights," concerns the employment and protection of temporary labourers.
  • It aims to eliminate pay disparities and increase oversight of temporary staffing agencies.

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