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News update as of 06 July
In its final pre-summer plenary session, the European Parliament gave its backing for public corporate tax disclosure and the need to tackle growing precarious employment.
4 July 2017
Austria: agreement found over the minimum wage but not on working time
Austria’s social partners only managed to secure one of two of the government’s goals set in January 2017. On 30 June representatives from the employers and trade unions presented their agreement...
4 July 2017
Deutsche Bahn: rail company looks to modernize the co-determination rules as part of its digital transformation
Deutsche Bahn (DB) one of West Germany’s major employers with more than 195,000 working in Germany is one of the first companies to contribute its own ‘Co-determination PLUS’ experimental forum to...
4 July 2017
Spain: Basque trade unionist Unai Sordo takes the helm at the CCOO
The Spanish Workers' Commissions (CCOO) recently held their ninth union congress, which took place from 29 June to 1 July, and it saw the election of the union’s general secretary. Unai Sordo, the...
3 July 2017
Brazil: another day of national protest over labour reform
On Friday 30 June, the main central trade union groups and social organisations in Brazil organised protests in the country’s biggest cities. The movement, which was initially supposed to be a...
3 July 2017
Bangladesh: over twenty leading fashion brands signed a new safety agreement with garment factories
On 29 June twenty-three leading ready-to-wear fashion brands together with the IndustriALL and Uni Global Union organizations signed a new safety agreement covering Bangladeshi garment factories.
29 June 2017
United States: the NLRB comes under Republican influence
President Donald Trump has just nominated two representatives to the board as counterweights to the pro-union decisions of its current makeup.
29 June 2017
France: draft law adopted enabling the government to reform the Labor Code via a series of ordinances
On 28 June France’s Council of Ministers adopted the draft enabling law that authorizes the government to proceed with Labor Code reform via the ordinance instrument. Primacy for the company-level...
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28 June 2017
Austria: introduction of a hiring bonus and a rise in tax-free employee profit sharing
The call for early elections to be held on 15 October has forced the government to adopt several measures before the parliamentary summer recess. Among these is the Beschäftigungsbonus, or hiring...
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28 June 2017
News updates as of June 27, 2017
On the menu: strike ends at VW Bratislava (Slovakia), some new sector negotiations in Belgium, in Luxembourg the 2014-2016 banking sector collective labor agreement is renewed, according to...
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26 June 2017
Great Britain: special status to only be offered to EU citizens with a minimum of five years residency
On 26 June, UK PM Theresa May confirmed that following Brexit, EU citizens will have had to have been resident in the UK for at least five years in order to avail of the ‘settled status’, which...
26 June 2017
India: tech employees mobilise to create sector’s first trade union
The Forum for IT Employees (FITE) is preparing to file an application to the government of Tamil Nadu state in India and become the first trade union for tech workers in the country. The news...
26 June 2017
Lithuania: new labour code promulgated
On 15 June, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė promulgated the new version of the country’s labour code, which is geared towards creating greater flexibility in the labour market and...
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26 June 2017
Digitalization: Danish, Swedish, and German social partners compared
A study by Anna Ilsøe, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, focuses on work related digitalization, something that has intensified over recent years via...
26 June 2017
Sodexo: signs a global agreement with the IUF over preventing sexual harassment at work
In line with the direction set in the international framework agreement signed by both Sodexo and the IUF in December 2011 on commitments to respect fundamental rights at work, namely freedom of...
22 June 2017
Austria: the Foodora platform sets up its first works council
In Europe’s large towns and cities, food delivery services operating via smartphone apps, and for the most part employing freelance workers are in full swing. Similar to the UBER platform based...
22 June 2017
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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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Ireland: 2026-2030 action plan launched to promote collective bargaining
Irish employment minister Peter Burke announced on 5 November the launch of the Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining 2026–2030. Developed jointly with the Irish Congress of Trade...
20 November 2025