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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
United Kingdom: companies form the key stone of the government’s new digital strategy
More than 4 million UK citizens will receive free digital training over the next few years. This is the promise UK prime minister Theresa May has made, as part of plans to build for the country’s...
3 March 2017
Germany: agreement in textile sector for 4.4% wage raise
On Wednesday 1 March, social partners from the textile sector struck an agreement on a wage raise. The agreement provides for a 4.4% increase in total and it will affect 100,000 employees in the...
3 March 2017
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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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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
5 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026