Home » HR practices » Professional development » Legal developments » National legislation » News update as of April 11, 2019 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 Resources 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,… Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageEmailThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels