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Great Britain: Asda supermarkets propose ‘flexible contracts’ in return for a 14% pay rise
Asda, the UK’s third largest supermarket chain, after Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and owned by US giant Wal-Mart, is offering its 135,000 staff the option to switch to ‘flexible contracts’ from October...
15 March 2017
EU: companies can ban religious clothing and symbols at work under certain circumstances
On 14 March, by way of two cases, one French and the other Belgian, the Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified its interpretation of EU law against discrimination over the wearing of...
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14 March 2017
France: health and safety agreement signed for the interim sector
In the week of 06 March 2017, the organization representing temporary employment businesses, Prism’Emploi, and four out of the five union organizations (CGT, CFDT, FO, and CFTC) signed an...
14 March 2017
Spain: courts again reject multiservice companies collective agreements
Ten or so of the forty-six multiservice companies that were affected by the Social Chamber of Spain’s National court cancellation of their collective agreements had opted to continue the legal...
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14 March 2017
News update as of March 13, 2017
On the menu : new law to more strictly govern salary increases in Belgium, extension of maternity leave in India and Philippines, H&M to encourage suppliers to pay their employees using...
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8 March 2017
PSA Group global agreement: an interview with Valter Sanches, general secretary of the global union federation IndustriALL Global Union
Alongside the signing on 07 March of PSA Group's new global framework CSR agreement (see our article 10104), Planet Labor had the opportunity to interview Valter Sanches on both his vision and...
8 March 2017
PSA Group: Xavier Chéreau HR Director, “With our new global agreement, we want to assume our social and societal responsibility and support the enterprise’s success”
On 07 March the signing of PSA Group’s new global framework agreement (c.f. article No. 10104) provided an opportunity for Xavier Chéreau HR Director of the auto group to reply to some questions...
8 March 2017
EU: European social partners’ agreement on active ageing
On 08 March the European social partners, BusinessEurope, UEAPME, CEEP (employers) and the ETUC (unions) presented their voluntary autonomous agreement that proposes tools and measures for...
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8 March 2017
Great Britain: support directed to the technical sector ahead of Brexit and higher national insurance contribution rates for the self-employed
On 08 March the UK Chancellor presented the ‘last ever’ spring budget in which new support of £500 million (€577 million) was earmarked for technical education ahead of what could be expected to...
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8 March 2017
PSA Group: renewal of its global CSR agreement
On 07 March the French carmaker together with the union federations IndustriAll Global and industriAll European Trade Union signed a new global CSR agreement and with it the PSA Group has crossed...
6 March 2017
Japan: companies focus on Premium Friday
Encouraging employees to leave work early at around 15.00 hrs on the last Friday of every month, leaving them time to go shopping or travel, is the goal of the Government led ‘Premium Friday’...
6 March 2017
EU: European Parliament Employment Committee considers revising the EU Directive on Posting of Workers
A divisive topic open to every sort of populist message, and yet also a fundamental text for this EU term, which is likely to constitute ‘the foundations for a Social Europe’. Thus is how...
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6 March 2017
Prosegur: Uni Global Union turns to investors to draw their attention to what it claims are human rights violations by the Spanish security firm
On Wednesday 01 March the global union federation Uni Global Union organized an investors meeting to draw attention to human rights violations that according to Uni Global that the Spanish...
Slovakia: automobile unions drive for higher salaries
Unions operating within the sector’s symbolic automakers, Kia Motors Slovakia, Volkswagen Slovakia, and PSA, have started 2017 with strong wage rise demands. This year they are calling for...
6 March 2017
Italy: new norms against call center offshoring
Measures sanctioning call center offshoring as intended by the 2017 Finance Law have just come into force. With strong backing from the trade unions, the new measures both impose constraints on...
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6 March 2017
China: FAW-Volkswagen temp workers protest against unequal treatment
According to German correspondents and information from the China Labour Bulletin (CLB), a Hong Kong-based NGO, there has been a rare series of protests at the automobile manufacturer...
3 March 2017
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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...
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14 October 2025
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EU: right and far right join forces in parliament to dismantle sustainability due diligence
On 13 November, the European Parliament approved the report by EPP MEP Jörgen Warborn on the proposed omnibus directive, clearing the way for trilogue negotiations. Backed by the far right, the...
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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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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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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation covering a large corpus of digital legislation. The so-called ‘Digital Omnibus’ follows public...
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Carrefour and UNI Global Union renew global agreement on promoting social dialogue and diversity
On 17 October, Carrefour, one of the world’s largest retailers, with nearly 500,000 employees worldwide, and global union federation UNI Global Union renewed their global agreement on...
3 November 2025