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Newsletter November, 2022

Belgium: social partners concluded Collective Bargaining Agreement No. 162

November, 2022
  • On 27 September 2022, the National Labour Council approved the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) no. 162 on the right to request flexible working arrangements.
  • It entered into force on 1 October 2022. 
Newsletter October, 2022

Diverse form of work in the platform economy (an IOE-WEC report)

October, 2022
  • On 3 October 2022, The International Organisation of Employers (IOE) and the World Employment Confederation (WEC) released a new report on Diverse forms of work in the platform economy.
  • It outlines the regulatory context, benefits and challenges of platform work, providing detailed insights and information on how it has become an enduring feature of labour markets. 

Sweden: new labour reforms entered into force

October, 2022
  • The proposal to revise the Employment Protection Act (EPA), presented on June 2021, was finally adopted. 
  • The reform described as the “greatest reform of Swedish employment law in modern times” entered into force on 30 June 2022 and applied for the first time as of 1 October 2022.
Newsletter September, 2022

Norway: Amendments to regulations on working from home

September, 2022
  • Effective from 1 July 2022, the Norwegian Government amended the regulations on working from home, adopted in 2002, aiming to adjust it to modern working life and to make it easier for employers to manage employees who work from home.

OECD Employment Outlook 2022

September, 2022
  • 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.

 

 

 

Puerto Rico: Amendments to the Labour Transformation and Flexibility Act

September, 2022
  • 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.
Newsletter July, 2022

South Korea proposes a flexible hours system

July, 2022
  • 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.
Newsletter June, 2022

World Employment Conference 2022

June, 2022
  • The World Employment Conference 2022 took place on 31st May in Brussels.
  • Participants got the opportunity to exchange opinion about the gap between workers' and employers' expectations, which was the announced main theme of the conference.

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