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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
EU: European union federations start setting out the changes they want seen effected in the EU Directive on EWCs
On 31 January the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT), the European Public Services Union...
2 March 2017
How Carrefour implements its diversity policy in Argentina
Within a legal context that strange to the topic of Corporate Social Responsiblity and diversity, the French distributer applies its group-wide defined norms and has established a set of measures...
EU: five scenarios for a Europe of tomorrow
The European Commission is placing the Member States face to face with their responsibilities. On 01 March the European Commission presented a white paper that lays out five scenarios for the...
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2 March 2017
News update as of 1 March 2017
On the menu: Chinese industry salaries are catching up on their Greek and Portuguese counterparts, Finnish trade unions develop initiatives in response to the gig economy, Uber’s sexual harassment...
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28 February 2017
Great Britain: companies urged to raise employee ethnic diversity
In a shock report commissioned by the UK government and published on 28 February it was revealed that treating black and minority ethnic (BME) employees in the same way as other employees could...
28 February 2017
Spain: souring relations between employers’ bodies and unions over the national framework agreement negotiations on salaries and collective bargaining
Since the end of 2016, discussions between the social partners on a framework for salary recommendations, which should have come into force on 01 January 2017, and which should allow businesses to...
28 February 2017
Italy: insurance sector national collective agreement renewed
On 22 February and more than three years after the previous collective agreement reached its term, social partners in the insurance sector came to a draft agreement for renewing the national...
28 February 2017
Belgium: bill adopted to make labour law more flexible
On Thursday 22 February, the country’s lower house adopted a bill to reform the country’s labour law. The plans will relax legislation on working time, create a framework for occasional telework...
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27 February 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