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Brazil: number of workers aged 50-65+ up 30% over 5 years
The number of people in Brazil aged between 50 and 64 that are in work has increased by 30% over the period between 2010 and 2015. Meanwhile the number of workers aged 65 and over has also...
10 July 2017
Italy: new standards on casual work come into force on 10 July
The ‘voucher’ system is set to be replaced with two separate alternatives that will be wholly digital. PM Gentiloni’s government is doing away with the former special cheque based payment system...
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10 July 2017
Great Britain: Deliveroo seeks to establish ‘gig worker’ status
With the much awaited independent report on work commissioned by Theresa May’s government and led by Matthew Taylor expected on Tuesday 11 July (c.f. article No. 9950), food delivery firm...
10 July 2017
Great Britain: London launches its Good Work Standard
On 04 July, London Mayor Sadiq Khan officially presented his Good Work Standard project to which companies will soon be able to voluntarily adhere. Its stated goal is to tackle low pay and...
7 July 2017
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
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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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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026