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Italy: trade union prevalence even across social media networks
Social media network and especially Facebook, Twitter, and more recently Instagram are becoming staples on the communications menu of the trade union confederations (Cgil, Cisl, and Uil), their...
8 October 2018
News update as of October 4, 2018
On the menu : in Italy, Constitutional Court rules against Jobs Act article on dismissals compensation, Auto industry sets up a sector-specific competences council in Poland, US tax breaks have...
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4 October 2018
Great Britain: government focusing on employed parents
What if companies always had to state if a job was flexible or not? Thus one of UK PM Theresa May’s new proposals as her government appears to want to take care of employed parents ahead of the...
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3 October 2018
Carrefour: global framework agreement renewed
On 03 October the French multinational retailer renewed its 2015 global framework agreement struck with Uni Global Union (see our article n°9283). In this agreement that both Carrefour CEO...
3 October 2018
Spain: government announces new employment equality legislation
The goal is to rapidly progress towards employment equality, bolster the right to reconcile work with non-work periods as well as that to non-discrimination in terms of recruitment, training, and...
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3 October 2018
Brexit: employers ill-pleased by PM Theresa May’s immigration announcements (in brief)
The number of low-skilled immigrants, both from and outside Europe will fall after Brexit. This was the promise made by PM Theresa May on 02 October that has angered UK’s employers. The...
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3 October 2018
News update as of October 2, 2018
On the menu : German Grand coalition agrees broad thrusts of future economic immigration legislation, a wave of strike action in Finland for week commencing October 01 protesting draft...
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2 October 2018
United States: NAFTA 2.0 strengthening the US auto sector
With the sun setting on the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, the three NAFTA pillars, United States, Mexico, and Canada are waking up to the newly agreed USMCA deal. Agreement for this...
1 October 2018
Inditex: European works council set up
At the start of last week, the Inditex group, which owns clothing brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, penned an agreement regarding the creation of a European works council...
1 October 2018
Italy: pension reform and citizenship income included in 2019 budget
At the end of tense internal discussions, Giuseppe Conte’s government announced on the evening of 27 September that it had reached an agreement on the measures to be included in the 2019 budget...
1 October 2018
United Kingdom: working week of 120,000 Royal Mail workers reduced by one hour
From today, Monday 1 October, employees of the UK postal service are to see their weekly working hours cut from 39 to 38 hours. This unprecedented measure is part of the so-called Four Pillars of...
1 October 2018
News update as of September 28, 2018
Ikea/ An international trade union coalition delivers a complaint to the OECD protesting the occurrence of workers rights violations at Ikea in several countries. On 27 September, an international...
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28 September 2018
Germany: spotlight on increasing rising use of social media by company works councils
The Amazon-verdi blog, the Obi-verdi blog, Siemens Dialog, Schaeffler-Nachrichten, …, German company works councils are increasingly turning to the different social media (blogs, Facebook...
27 September 2018
Modern slavery along global supply chains: five key countries including the UK and the USA develop four key principles to eradicate this scourge
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the US, and the UK belong to the group of nations that on 25 September presented a landmark practical set of provisions that other nations’ government can adopt in...
Airbus SE : the aeronautics group uses European and international social dialogue as a transformation lever
an international social dialogue forum in place, the Airbus Global Forum, in order to ‘strengthen a feeling of belonging across the Airbus entities’ and as a ‘lever for change...
26 September 2018
Italy: H&M signs first company agreement
On 24 September, the Swedish clothing company’s Italian subsidiary that employs more than 5,000 staff across more than 150 H&M, Cos, and &Other Stories sales outlets signed an agreement...
26 September 2018
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
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...
15 October 2025
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Spain: new terms and conditions for in-company training contracts
On 25 November, Spain's Council of Ministers approved a regulation on training contracts. This text defines the terms and conditions for hosting work-study students and interns doing professional...
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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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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
15 December 2025