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Newsletter January, 2022

New Eurofond report on integrating digital tools in social dialogue

January, 2022
  • The recently published Eurofund report analyses how social partners are increasingly adopting technological solutions to improve the services that they provide to their members and facilitate collective bargaining processes.
  • It shows that the way social partners use digital technologies varies greatly across the EU Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK).

Chile: New Electronic Payroll Book Law

January, 2022
  • Law No. 21,327 (Labour Directorate Modernization Act), published in the Official Gazette on 30 April 2021, came into force on 1 October 2021.
  • It aims to modernise the Labour Department, also through the incorporation of new technologies and the digitalisation of procedures.
  • On 28 October 2021, the law was published in the Official Gazette the Supreme Decree No. 37 of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, which approves the Regulation of Law No. 21,327.
Newsletter December, 2021

Workforce transformation through the ‘great enlightenment’”. The Randstad Workmonitor 2021 second edition

December, 2021
  • The Randstad Workmonitor is a global survey launched in 2003. Published twice a year, it covers now 34 markets around the world and highlights local and global trends in the job market.
  • The latest research shows that workers around the world are finding themselves part of the 'Great Enlightenment' as they have gained more clarity about their work and personal lives.

European Parliament voted for a new draft cybersecurity law

December, 2021
  • On 28 October 2021, the European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopted a draft directive on cybersecurity (“NIS2 Directive”).
  • It imposes specific cybersecurity requirements to large European-based companies, relating to incident response, supply chain security, encryption and vulnerability disclosure obligations, aiming to establish better cooperation and information sharing between EU Member States, and create a common European vulnerability database.
Newsletter November, 2021

The definition of worker in the platform economy: Exploring workers’ risks and regulatory solutions (an European Economic and Social Committee workers’ group study)

November, 2021
  • The research report has been produced in the context of a project entitled ‘The definition of worker in the platform economy’ (CES/FSA/09/2020) commissioned by the workers’ group of the European Economic and Social Committee. 
  • The final report aims to contribute to the debate on platform workers’ risk and regulatory solutions.
Newsletter September, 2021

China issued a Guideline for the Conclusion of Electronic Labour Contracts

September, 2021
Newsletter February, 2021

Federation of Egyptian Industries provides services to support SMEs and society

February, 2021
  • The Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) launched new services for improving digital skills of SMEs
  • It also started offering support to companies willing to participate in the rehabilitation of Egyptian villages

WEC Blockchain taskforce to facilitate workforce matching

February, 2021
  • The taskforce was launched at the end of 2019 to explore the potential of blockchain solutions to the private employment services industry.
  • At the end of 2020 it joined the Velocity Network Foundation, a consortium that seeks to use blockchain technology to build an ‘Internet of Careers™’.

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