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Danone signs a global framework agreement on sustainable employment
Both Danone and the IUF agreed that sustainable, stable and long-lasting employment must favored as one of the best ways to guarantee employees’ full benefit of their fundamental rights. Given that temporary and outsourced employment may deprive workers of...
EELA Hamburg Conference
Dear friends and members of EELA, After our pre-warning in March, it will not come as a surprise that we will have to cancel this year’s conference in Hamburg. The world is clearly not ready for big international conferences yet, which leaves us with no other choice....
EELA Newsflash – EELA 2020 Conference (Hamburg)
Dear friends and colleagues, We hope this message finds you well. These are troubling times as we are all trying to cope with the threats resulting from the spread of the Covid-19 virus and with the restrictions on our professional and private lives. Unfortunately,...
7th EELA-ERA Annual Seminar On European Labour Law 2019
Brussels, 22 November 2019 (10:00-16:00) Objective The EELA-ERA annual seminar in Brussels aims to provide participants with an update on the most recent cases and initiatives at EU level and a discussion of current topics of European labour law. The latest trends,...
EELA has finished cooperation with Planet Labor.
EELA has finished cooperation with Planet Labour. Legal news are now provided to EELA members by EELC.
Deutsche Bahn negotiates its first ‘European social plan’ with is European works council
It was on 15 October 2013 during an ordinary EWC meeting that Deutsche Bahn management officially presented its consolidation and relocation plans for the group’s accounting business, transferring it from Berlin to Bucharest. It is also the very day that negotiations...
EELA 2019 Annual Conference in Tallinn – CALL FOR TOPICS
Dear members, As announced at the last EELA General Assembly in Bratislava the annual conference of 2019 will take place in Tallinn on May 23-25. The preparations for the conference are well in progress, but as always, we are seeking input from our members to...
EELA-ERA Annual Brussels Seminar – REGISTRATION OPEN
Dear members, Now that you have had some time to browse through the photos and admire the video from our Bratislava conference, as well as reflect on what can be done better or differently at our next conferences when taking the survey, it is time to look ahead and...
Mango and Esprit commit to respecting fundamental labour rights along their supply chains
Following the example set by Inditex (which houses the well known Zara brand), H&M, Tchibo, and Asos, this summer clothing brands Mango and Esprit concluded global agreements that guarantee ILO international conventions will be respected as regards their global...
EU: the European Parliament rapporteur on draft directive on transparent and predictable working conditions proposes moving away from the concept of subordinated worker in order to guarantee a set of minimum rights for all dependent workers
On 29 August, the European Parliament Employment Commission debated a draft EU directive on transparent and predictable working conditions (see previous EELA post here, the goal of which is twofold, namely updating the list of information items on working conditions...