On 5 April 2023, the European Commission published the 2022 annual report on intra-EU labour mobility, which identifies trends in the free movement of workers.
The 2022 edition focuses on cross-border workers in the EU and EFTA, on the one hand, and mobility of persons with specific occupations.
On 14 February 2024, the European Court of Human Rights clarified the criteria for assessing whether disclosure of confidential information obtained in the workplace is protected by freedom of expression under Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).
It stated that the State that convicts a former employee of an auditing firm for disclosing confidential information obtained in the workplace violates Article 10 of the ECHR on freedom of expression if that information is of particular interest to the public.
The Luxembourg Court of Appeal clarified the employers' obligations regarding sexual harassment within their organisation.
The Court stated that the employer’s obligation to act and stop sexual harassment could only be validly implemented once the employee has made a precise report on the alleged acts, which is up to the employee to prove.
On 23 August 2022, the Comité de conjuncture (Economic Committee) examined possible solutions for businesses affected by gas shortages to save employment.
The Minister of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy, the Minister of the Economy and the social partners agreed to allow employers, whose activities will be impacted by a restriction imposed by the government on their gas consumption, to resort to partial unemployment.
Randstad published the Workmonitor 2022, the first full survey of 2022 that addresses issues such as job flexibility, work life balance, personal and professional growth and corporate social responsibilities (CSR) in the context of the recovery from the pandemic.
The survey was conducted between 21 February and 13 March 2022 in more than 30 countries worldwide.
Most of European Member States failed to transpose the EU Whistleblowing Directive within the established deadline of December 2021.
European Commission already sent a formal notice to 24 Members for the lack of transposition and to Sweden and Portugal for their delay in the application.
European regulation on the 25% limit of telework in the country of residence for cross-border workers was suspended by agreements among neighbouring European countries