Employment
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Index increase
In Luxembourg, wage indexation is an automatic mechanism for the adjustment of salaries to keep pace with evolving living costs. From 1 August 2018, the index applicable to employees' wages will climb.
Arendt & Medernach - 16 December 2019
Employment
Free movement of workers: new provisions on equal treatment and minimum pay for highly qualified wor
Equal
treatment
The Law of
November 7 2017, which came into force on January 1 2018, partially transposed
EU Directive 2014/54/EU on measures facilitating the exercise of rights
conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers into
Luxembourg law.
Castegnaro, member of Ius Laboris - 28 October 2019
Employment
Free movement of workers: new provisions on equal treatment and minimum pay for highly qualified wor
Equal
treatment
The Law of
November 7 2017, which came into force on January 1 2018, partially transposed
EU Directive 2014/54/EU on measures facilitating the exercise of rights
conferred on workers in the context of freedom of movement for workers into
Luxembourg law.
Castegnaro, member of Ius Laboris - 28 October 2019
Employment
Monitoring of the use by an employee of a professional instant messaging tool for personal purposes
Court decision in Bărbulescu v. Romania
On 5 September 2017, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the “ECHR”) examined for the first time the issue of the monitoring of electronic communications of an employee by a private employer, within the framework of an action brought by Mr Bărbulescu, an engineer employed by a private company in Romania. Mr Bărbulescu had been dismissed for using for personal purposes, in breach of the provisions of the internal regulations of the company, a professional Yahoo Messenger account created at his employer’s request for the purpose of responding to customers’ enquiries.
Arendt & Medernach - 28 October 2019