According to a recent ruling by Spain’s Supreme Court, employees dismissed during the Covid-19 pandemic are not automatically entitled to reinstatement.
The decision of 19 October 2022 clarifies an interpretative doubt that had led to the assumption that any dismissal linked to the Covid 19 crisis was forbidden, entailing its automatic nullity and the consequent reinstatement of the dismissed workers.
ILO just released the Global Wage 2022-2023 Report, one of its flagship reports on wage trends and policies at national and global levels that looks at the global economy and labour market context and the impact that the pandemic has had on wages.
This edition shows that, in the first half of 2022, there was the first negative global wage growth recorded since the start of the 21st Century.
The Adecco 2022 global study provides insights into the attitudes of the current workforce and offers food for thought to help organisations future-proof their talent.
It is the third edition of the research, as it follows “Resetting Normal: Defining the New Era of Work” of 2020 and 2021, we reported here.
Randstad recently released its “Gender equality in the workplace 2022” report, based on the surveys of 6,000 workers across the construction, education, healthcare and technology sectors.
It aims to gain detailed insight into the status quo of UK workplaces and assess the persistence of gender discrimination.
On 1 August 2022, an urgent notice, jointly released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the National Health Commission, prohibits any prejudice and discrimination against recovered COVID-19 patients in the job market.
On 9 September 2022, OECD released its annual Employment Outlook report, Building Back More Inclusive Labour Markets, with the latest data and analysis of the impact on employment of the Covid-19 crisis and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
It reviews the key labour market and social challenges for a more inclusive post-COVID‑19 recovery and examines the policies to address these and future challenges.
On 20 June 2022, Puerto Rico’s governor signed into law Act No. 41-2022 (the Act), amending and partially repealing the Labour Transformation and Flexibility Act (LTFA),
It aims to reincorporate statutory benefits and employee rights that were eliminated by LTFA, in many cases reversing the changes it had introduced.
On 23 June 2022, the Ministry of Employment and Labour released a series of proposals to the working hour and the wage system in South Korea, aiming to give to give employers and workers more flexibility post-covid.
Among the proposed measures there is a plan to increase the period for calculating overtime under a so-called flexible working hours system.