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Croatian retailers are displeased with a law that prohibits shopping on most Sundays, saying it is threatening small businesses and driving layoffs in a crucial sector of the economy. The Trade Law, which was passed last year, allows retailers to choose only 16 Sundays per year when they can open their stores. While unions seem to be satisfied with it, many entrepreneurs in wholesale and retail trade are not. The five large shopping centres in Zagreb say Sunday revenue tends to be higher, and that the non-working Sundays imposed this year could hurt them to the tune of €50 million euros. Owner...
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The UN labour agency Profits and poverty report said forced sexual exploitation was to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home, swipes jobs from legal workers, and allows the criminals behind it to avoid taxes. After sexual exploitation, the sectors with the highest illegal profits are industry (€32 billion), services (€19 billion), agriculture (€4.6 billion), and domestic work (€2 billion). Total annual illegal profits from forced labour are highest in Europe and Central Asia (€77 billion), followed by Asia and the Pacific (€57 bi...
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The clamour for European companies to embrace a four-day working week has risen since the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the 40-hour workweek in the United States is in the crosshairs after being a standard work practice for more than eight decades with members of the US Congress wanting to give hourly workers an extra day off. Senator Bernie Sanders, a one-time presidential candidate and a far-left independent from Vermont, introduced a bill last week that would shorten to 32 hours the amount of time many Americans can work each week before they're owed overtime. Four-day week: Which countries are e...
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In Saint-Colomban, a small community outside the city of Nantes in northwest France, Pierrick Duchêne, the husband of Claudine, was tragically crushed to death by a machine while working alone. It was supposed to be the start of his Christmas holidays, but he received a last-minute call to come to work and perform maintenance on a machine. He never returned home. Claudine told Euronews Witness, "Dying at work in France shouldn't happen. Yet, there are two deaths per day." Matthieu Lépine, a history and geography teacher, has been analysing the high rate of workplace fatalities in France over t...
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