Short Time Work Measures Across Europe (COVID-19)

Throughout Europe trade unions are negotiating short time work schemes with both employers and governments so that workers are not let go during the COVID-19 lockdown but instead continue to …

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Frontline supermarkets: unions team up with businesses to boost Austria’s COVID-19 containment efforts

Austria is in lockdown but its supermarkets are anything but. Ensuring that people have safe access to essential goods is central to our collective efforts to contain COVID-19. That’s why …

ETUC Briefing Note: National measures to avoid collective/individual lay-offs (incl. granting (additional/special) leaves)

This briefing note focuses on strategies to avoid worker lay offs and to ensure alternatives such as ‘short-term work schemes,’ teleworking, etc. to avoid a complete loss of wages. This …

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ITUC Global COVID-19 Survey: Half of countries in lockdown as COVID-19 pandemic wreaks health and economic havoc on working people and their families

The International Trade Union Confederation conducted a survey regarding how countries are responding to the COVID-19 crisis and what sorts of impacts from closures, shelter in place orders, or a …

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Do I have to work during the coronavirus outbreak? A labour relations expert weighs in

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to shape the economy, one expert is reminding Canadians that they have the right to refuse unsafe work under the country’s labour code. “Workers who have …

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IWGB to sue UK government over its failure to protect precarious workers

The Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) is taking legal action against the government over its failure to protect the wages and jobs of millions of workers during the …

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MP 927 é ‘desumana’, aponta desembargador Souto Maior

“São Paulo – Para o desembargador no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho (TRT) da 15ª Região Jorge Luiz Souto Maior, a medida provisória (MP) 927/2020, editada pelo presidente Jair Bolsonaro neste …

India: Statewide updates following Government’s review of the COVID-19 outbreak on March 22, 2020

Following the video conference, held on March 22, 2020, it was mentioned that a number of decisions were taken by both the union and state governments with respect to containing …

MEDIDA PROVISÓRIA Nº 927, DE 22 DE MARÇO DE 2020

MEDIDA PROVISÓRIA Nº 927, DE 22 DE MARÇO DE 2020 Dispõe sobre as medidas trabalhistas para enfrentamento do estado de calamidade pública reconhecido pelo Decreto Legislativo nº 6, de 20 de …

Norway: A comprehensive overview of all emergency measures 20 March

Political agreement between the the political partieson the first phase financial emergency measures to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Norway. https://www.lo.no/language/english/english-news/corona/    

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