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Our country guides set out the key elements of national law as it applies to: recruitment and selection; pay and benefits; employee rights; contracts of employment; training and development; equal opportunities; industrial relations; health and safety; and termination of employment.

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Latest country guide updates

› Belgium: Dismissal protection during paternity leave

› France: Recruitment formalities

› France: Work placements

› Germany: Posted workers' minimum pay rates

› Ireland: National minimum wage

› Ireland: European Works Councils

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EU developments

State of play

Draft EU employment legislation state of play, August 2011
Our monthly update explains the current position on all significant items of employment-related draft EU legislation that are in the legislative pipeline, or due to be proposed in the near future.

News

› Parliament seeks binding EU quotas for women on company boards

› Polish EU Presidency sets out priorities

› Commission fleshes out plans to amend Posted Workers Directive

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Other international developments

In-depth

EADS agrees Europe-wide profit-sharing scheme
EADS, the aerospace and defence multinational, signed a European agreement in June 2011 with trade unions and its EWC on a uniform profit-sharing scheme for employees in France, Germany, Spain, the UK and other countries.

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Editor's message

LATEST EU DEVELOPMENTS
Among the key EU-level developments reported on this month is a call by the European Parliament for legislation to impose a minimum level of women's representation on company boards of 30% by 2015 and 40% by 2020. Women currently make up only 12% of the members of the boards of Europe's 600 largest publicly listed companies, and the European Commission has already indicated that it will consider legislating if businesses do not take effective voluntary action by March 2012.

The Commission is also committed to issuing a legislative proposal before the end of 2011 to amend the 1996 Posted Workers Directive. It has now confirmed that this will take the form of an "enforcement Directive" aimed at improving implementation of the 1996 Directive. The enforcement Directive will be accompanied by a Regulation clarifying the relationship between the freedom of businesses to provide services in other EU member states (often using posted workers) and workers' rights to strike and bargain collectively.

Elsewhere, Poland has taken over the rotating EU Presidency for the second half of 2011 and will give priority to finding a compromise to end the impasse over amending the Pregnant Workers Directive.

Mark Carley
International editor, XpertHR


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