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Firstly, TIM, which is in the throes of significant reorganization in terms of its 5G service launch, signed a company agreement at the end of July 2019, some three years after group management...

26 August 2019

Italy: new collective agreement for Lamborghini provides for greater participation of staff representatives on Industry 4.0 and data collection

On 24 July 2019, the two main Italian union federations for metalworkers, FIOM-CGIL and FIM-CISL, signed a new collective agreement (for the period 2019-2022) at Lamborghini, the luxury automotive...

25 July 2019

Portugal: Regressar programme aims to encourage emigrants to return

The initiative dubbed Regressar seeks to make it easier for Portuguese people who left the country before 31 December 2015 – the date that marked the official end of the period of austerity...

25 July 2019

Portugal: final adoption of Labor Code reform

On Friday 19 July Portugal’s National Assembly definitively adopted a series of amendments to the country’s Labor Code. While social collaboration initiated the reform process and several...

24 July 2019

Germany: little uptake of the law on salary transparency

Germany’s law on remuneration transparency (c.f. article No. 10143) that came into force in July 2017 sought to narrow the country’s gender pay gap, which at 21%, is one of the highest in Europe...

23 July 2019

Great Britain: two pieces of draft legislation to end the abusive use of confidentiality clauses and to better protect new parents

In the closing moments of Theresa May’s tenure as UK Prime Minister before her successor is announced on Tuesday 23 July and prior to her departure on Wednesday 24 July, the government has...

23 July 2019

Poland: a legally binding opinion on types of employee data treatment that has to undergo an impact evaluation

In a legally binding opinion that was published in the Official Journal on 07 July 2019, the National Office for Private Data Protection (UODO) details the types data treatment that will now be...

23 July 2019

France: Samsung indicted for misleading business practices violating labor rights

On 03 July 2019, two French activist groups — Sherpa and ActionAid France signaled that the he French subsidiary of the Korean electronics giant Samsung was indicted. According to their...

22 July 2019

France: Teleperformance called on to comply with duty of vigilance legislation

In a statement on 18 July, international trade union federation UNI Global Union, together with the well-known French legal activist NGO, Sherpa (for the protection and defense of victims of...

22 July 2019

United States: technical workers more willing to unionize than expected ?(Blind survey)

Thanks to its online surveys, the anonymous chat app for verified employees Blind, claim to be in touch with workers in the technical industry. On 15 July, it presented the results of a survey of...

22 July 2019

Spain: two agreements signed at Telefónica to guarantee right to disconnect and on how working time register will function

The CCOO and UGT trade unions and the management of Spanish telecommunications giant Telefónica have reached an agreement that will guarantee workers’ right to digitally disconnect and a second...

19 July 2019

ING: three NGOs file complaint with Dutch contact point for the OECD, demanding that the bank ceases investment in the palm oil sector

On 5 July, environment-focused NGOs from three different countries – Milieudefensie (Netherlands), Sustainable Development Institute (Liberia) and Wahana lingkungan Hidup Indonesia –...

19 July 2019

EU: mini portrait of incoming European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, through 7 articles from Planet Labor

On 16 July 2019, Ursula von der Leyen became the first woman to be elected president of the European Commission (see article n°11232). She will commence the role in November. A German politician...

19 July 2019

Orange: global agreement on making gender equality a priority within the Orange group

On 17 July Orange together with the international services union federation Uni Global, and the Orange Union Alliance (that brings together union organizations represented within the Orange group...

18 July 2019

EU: Expert Group on European Works Councils put on hold until further notice

An Expert Group on European Works Councils had been the European Commissions’ compromise response to its assessment of the EWC Recast Directive (2009/38/EC); i.e. no new revisions to the text, but...

18 July 2019

Great Britain: a new single enforcement body for employment rights in the offing?

On 16 July the UK government launched a public consultation on the establishment of a new single enforcement body to ensure national minimum and legal wages are paid and that the right to paid...

18 July 2019

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After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...

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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union

The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...

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A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...

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