The National Federation of the French Mutuality (FNMF), the representative body of the majority of health mutuals in France, has announced plans to cut at least 62 jobs by July 2023 – just over a quarter of the workforce. The redundancy plan has been denounced by the staff representative body of the... Find out more

A recent pilot program in the United Kingdom has demonstrated that reducing working hours result in significant benefits to employees' well-being and productivity. Non-profit organization 4 Day Week Global , the UK’s 4 Day Week Campaign , and think tank Autonomy conducted a six-month trial of a 4... Find out more

Whether the presumption of an employment relationship would mean an end to self-employment for platform workers is a false debate. Delivery Platforms Europe —whose members include Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Glovo—has made no secret of its opposition to the European Union directive on improving working... Find out more

The European Commission remains ambivalent on involvement of the social partners in political decision-making. What role should the ‘social partners’ (organisations representing workers and employers at national and at European Union level) play in the economy’s digital and environmental transitions... Find out more

EU plans for emissions from trucks and buses The Commission presented on 14 February its plans to tackle the greenhouse gas emissions from so-called ‘heavy-duty vehicles’ (trucks and buses). The proposed regulation aims at having zero-emission buses by 2030 and reducing the emissions of new trucks... Find out more

Climate change and rising temperatures are the leading causes of natural disasters such as flooding, storms, land sliding, wildfires, drought, and desertification, to name a few. With the rate of change of climate, the frequency and scale of these disasters have also gone up over the last decades... Find out more

On 17 December 2022, the EU Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement to set up a ‘Social Climate Fund’ (SCF). The agreement follows the proposed EU regulation creating an SCF adopted by the Commission on 14 July 2021 as part of the 'fit for 55' legislative package. The Fund will amount... Find out more

In December 2022, trilogues between the European Commission, European Parliament and the Council of the EU finally culminated in a series of provisional agreements on some of the central – intertwined – Fit for 55 files, namely the revision of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the Social Climate... Find out more

The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , adopted by both houses of Congress and signed into law in August 2022, has sent shockwaves across Europe. While the investment boost for the clean energy sector can well be regarded as a significant step for the US to move towards the Paris targets, the... Find out more

The year 2023 promises to be at least as challenging as the previous one, with war still raging between Russia, Ukraine and the West. The climate emergency turning into a real climate collapse also for countries in the Global North which had been spared some of the deadly and devastating effects... Find out more