News update as of April 11, 2019

On the menu: in France, final adoption of law requiring companies to take social and environmental considerations into account (Pacte), in Italy collective bargaining starts including the right to disconnect, draft legislation on requirement to report gender pay gaps. The Irish Parliament (Oireachtas) is currently debating draft Gender Pay Gap legislation in Ireland,  ‘Swedish Derogation’ arrangements allowing companies to circumvent equal payment requirements for interim work terminates in 2020 in the UK, leaves in Luxembourg. 

Through . Published on 11 April 2019 à 16h45 - Update on 11 April 2019 à 16h45

France/Final adoption of law requiring companies to take social and environmental considerations into account (Pacte). On 11 April France’s National Assembly definitively adopted the Action Plan for Business Growth and Transformation (PACTE – Le Plan d’action pour la croissance et la transformation des entreprises). One of its goals is ‘to change the company’s role in society’, by imprinting company DNA with a requirement for governance  to take into account the social and environment impacts of their activities (for more on this c.f. article No. 10855). The legislation intends that companies seeking to go further and set management principles, other than those of pure profit, can define their own ‘raison d’être’ in their own statutes, which will ‘comprise the company’s principles as well as the means by which it intends to uphold the same,…

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