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Germany: how digitalization is changing the face of recruitment
During the ‘Labor.a 2018’ conference that focused on digital transformations within the world of work that was held in Berlin on 13 September, Anna Sauter-Getschmann, Innovation Manager at...
8 October 2018
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
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Slovakia: 6% increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2027
The news. As Slovakia’s social partners failed to reach an agreement during tripartite negotiations, Labour Minister Erik Tomas has decided to increase the minimum wage by 6% from 1 January...
1 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026