HR & Compliance Centre European employment law and practice

XpertHR regularly publishes information on industrial relations law and practice across Europe, providing expert analysis of developments at European level and in individual European countries. In addition, XpertHR provides guides to national employment law in European countries, covering issues from the law on Sunday working, hours of work, holiday and maternity leave, to trade union recognition rights. 

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EU developments

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Belgium
Other leave
Temporary agency workers

Germany
Pay for illegal workers
Updated rates for temporary agency workers
Income tax
Posted workers
Redundancy rights

France
Sexual harassment

Ireland
National minimum wage
Collective agreements
Employment Regulation Orders

Italy
Part-time workers
Fixed-term workers
Temporary agency work
Types of contract
Apprenticeships
Unfair dismissal - general
Unfair dismissal - organisational grounds

Norway
Holiday pay in lieu of salary 

  EU developments

Draft EU employment legislation state of play, September 2012
Religious discrimination: is the EHRC's intervention at the human rights Court misjudged?

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France
Germany
Greece
Ireland
Italy
The Netherlands
Poland
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  Past issues

16 August 2012
Spain: Dismissal on objective grounds,
Hong Kong: Compensation for injury or illness,
Draft EU employment legislation state of play -
August 2012

19 July 2012
France: Updated national minimum wage rate,
Netherlands: Updated national minimum wage rate,
Draft EU employment legislation state of play -
July 2012

15 June 2012
Ireland: Fully revised section on temporary agency
workers, Belgium: Further and updated information
on parental leave, Draft EU employment legislation
state of play, June 2012

11 May 2012
France: Telework, France: Variation of contract,
Germany: Minimum wage rates for posted workers,
Greece: Minimum wage information related to country's
financial crisis

12 April 2012
France: Paid annual leave and public holiday entitlement,
France: Telework, Germany: Age discrimination in annual
leave entitlement, Greece: National minimum wage cut,
Greece: Collective agreements

9 March 2012
Belgium: National minimum wage rates, Belgium:
Statutory minimum night-work supplement, Belgium:
"Closure payments" for redundant employees, Germany:
Temporary agency work

9 February 2012
Belgium: "Time credits" for sabbaticals and working
time reductions, Germany: Family care leave, Ireland:
Sectoral minimum wage-setting, Spain: National
minimum wage, Spain: Income tax rates

12 January 2012
Belgium: Pay thresholds for white-collar workers' notice
periods, Belgium: New "dismissal bonus" for blue-collar
employees, France: New national minimum wage rate,
Ireland: Draft temporary agency work legislation

European Employment Review archive 2011
European Employment Review archive 2010
European Employment Review archive 2009
European Employment Review archive 2008
European Employment Review archive 2007

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Editor:
Mark Carley
Correspondents: Christophe Boulay (France), Pete Burgess (Germany), Antonio Deruda (Italy), Anna Ludwinek (Poland), Raul Marti­nez (Spain).