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EU: Carrefour, Auchan Retail and Uni Global Union to share best practices on preventive measures for workers and consumers regarding the Covid-19 pandemic
On 09 April, the international trade union federation UNI Global Union, together with Auchan Retail and the Carrefour Group signed a joint declaration on the implementation of good business...
9 April 2020
Canada: supermarket executives take to shop floor
Managers are rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty. That’s the message being sent out by several supermarket chains. Loblaw, Empire, Longo, and the Canadian subsidiary of...
9 April 2020
France: Société Générale agreement on rest days and remuneration maintenance during the Covid-19 pandemic
An agreement signed on 2 April with the CFTC, CGT, and SNB (specific banking sector organisation) trade unions affirms the principle of maintaining remuneration for all staff during the health...
8 April 2020
France: PSA agreement includes a solidarity-based 100% guarantee of salaries for employees on partial activity and a facility for adjusting summer holidays to facilitate business resumption
On 07 April an ‘agreement on social solidarity, and the protection and health of employees and the company’ was signed by the French auto manufacturer along with 4 of the 5 representative trade...
8 April 2020
Czech Republic: implementation of the jobs protection program
Starting 06 April, employers dealing falling business levels due to the Covid-19 crisis can secure State aid to pay employee salaries. The government provision intends for several supports for...
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8 April 2020
Great Britain: audit firms using sabbatical leave to deal with the coronavirus crisis
In order to lessen the financial impact of the health crisis, audit and consulting firms are looking into the idea of the sabbatical leave option. Thus, professional services firm Grant Thornton...
8 April 2020
Hungary: government announces a job protection program
On 06 April Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced via Facebook the launch of 5 economy support programs, including one that seeks to preserve jobs. Although the details of the jobs...
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8 April 2020
France: metallurgy sector agreement on emergency measures to deal with paid leave, rest days, and working hours
On 3 April the metallurgy sector’s employers’ body, the UIMM, along with the relevant trade union federations, the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO (the CGT absent) signed an agreement on work organization...
7 April 2020
Germany: Government allows companies to practise ‘widespread interim work’
As the spread of Covid-19 and social lockdown continue, some sectors of activity have come to a halt alongside massive recourse to short-time working, while others such as commerce, logistics, and...
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7 April 2020
Italy: UniCredit agree with trade unions on 5,200 early retirements to be partly made up by 3,500 hirings and the stabilization of precarious employment contracts
In less than two months, UniCredit banking group and the relevant trade unions have managed to conclude tense negotiations on 6,000 job cuts that are part of the bank’s 2023 strategic plan (c.f...
7 April 2020
Great Britain: Government adds clarity to its job support scheme
Furloughing (technical unemployment measure) in order to take of children at home to look after your children, furloughing alongside working for someone else, alternating furloughing periods...
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7 April 2020
Solvay: global framework agreement on digital transformation signed
The global framework agreement on digital transformation at Belgian chemicals group Solvay was signed on 17 March after being “discussed and elaborated with the European Works Council (EWC) and...
6 April 2020
Mexico: without government aid, companies are told to negotiate with employees to curb impact of the Covid-19 crisis
“We have done away with the old counter-cyclical measures that only increased inequality and yielded wealth for some,” Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (of the left leaning Morena...
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6 April 2020
Covid-19 spurs on digital transition at Taiwanese companies
Taiwan is one of the countries that has been least impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The island off the coast of China has recorded only 339 infections (as of 2 April), the vast majority of which...
6 April 2020
Chile: President promulgates legislation instigating a minimum income guarantee
From May, state aid (IMG, Ingreso Mínimo Garantizado, Minimum Income Guarantee) will be paid to employees earning the minimum salary in order to guarantee a net monthly income of CLP300,000...
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6 April 2020
Germany: Berlin plans to increase short-time working allowance
Hubertus Heil, Germany’s employment and social affairs minister, has announced that he will open discussions with social partners on the level of compensation paid to people placed on...
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3 April 2020
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On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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Spain: new terms and conditions for in-company training contracts
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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
19 December 2025
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