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Denmark: draft law restricting the use of non-competition and non-poaching clauses
On 07 October the Department of Labor put a draft law before the Danish parliament. In it regulations on employment contract clauses have been gathered together and reviewed. Non-poaching clauses...
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14 October 2015
China: due diligence guidelines for responsible mineral supply chains
Public consultation over due diligence guidelines for responsible mineral supply chains commenced at the beginning of October and will continue until the end of the month. The goal of the...
Italy: Confindustria halts negotiations with unions over reforming the collective bargaining model
After ‘Article 18’, are national collective agreements going to be put on the block? Last week the leader of the employers’ confederation Confindustria announced he was pulling out of talks with...
13 October 2015
Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court rejects a motion brought by three corporatist unions against the ‘single union law’
For the three corporatist unions Vereingung Cockpit (aircraft pilots), Marburger Bund (doctors), and DJV (journalists) who made the constitutional challenge to the Federal Constitutional Court...
13 October 2015
Carrefour: the global agreement on promoting social dialogue, fundamental rights, and diversity aims to establish “a mindset of respect for humans throughout all countries” and to promote “awareness” about fundamental rights amongst Carrefour’s partners
Mathilde Tabary, Director for Social Development and Diversity and Jean-Luc Delenne, Director for Industrial Relations each reply to questions by Planet Labor on the agreement signed by Carrefour...
12 October 2015
Great Britain: Unite union wins health and safety concessions after protracted negotiations at Sellafield
After a eighteenth month dispute involving a variety of forms of industrial action by its 1,200 construction members, the Unite union has won its dispute over health and safety that it has held...
12 October 2015
United States: Fiat Chrysler and the UAW union have concluded a new wage agreement after workers rejected the first one
This time, members of the Union Auto Workers (UAW) union hope that they will have successfully negotiated an agreement with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) management when the new agreement goes...
12 October 2015
Nokia/Alcatel Lucent: unions from both groups are demanding more information on the industrial plan
In July 2015, the European Commission gave the green light to Nokia’s plan to take-over French company Alcatel-Lucent. For the unions there is clearly an industrial strategy underlying the...
7 October 2015
Great Britain: the Community union moves to broaden its membership ranks and become a lifetime union
The Community general union has announced that it will be recruiting freelance and self-employed workers to reflect both the growth of these workers in the economy at large and their growth in the...
7 October 2015
Argentina: on average 60 unions per year have been set up under the Kirchner era
Argentina’s Employment Ministry has published a report in which it says that in the space of 11 years more than 650 unions have been set up. The country’s rate of unionization at 37% is amongst...
7 October 2015
Denmark: government kicks off employment reforms
Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s government has presented the first phase of its employment reforms program. Rules over social benefits will be tightened in an attempt to make working more attractive than...
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7 October 2015
Germany: 2015 – 2017 collective bargaining schedule
Germany’s collective bargaining year is coming to a close. Only the industrial cleaning and steelworks sectors still have to renegotiate wages and collective agreements before the end of the year...
6 October 2015
Italy: unification of the electrical sector is a major goal of the union platform for renewing the sector’s national collective agreement
Italy’s electrical sector’s unions have approved forming a single platform to renew the sector’s national collective agreement that affects 60,000 workers. Unions are looking to reunite the sector...
6 October 2015
United States: unions worried about the Trans-Pacific free trade pact
President Obama’s government has just concluded five days of non-stop marathon talks with the other eleven Pacific Rim countries eventually ending in a free trade agreement. Unionists in the...
5 October 2015
South Korea: a tripartite agreement on labor market reform
On 15 September, representatives of the FKTU union, employers and the South–Korean government concluded an agreement aimed at lifting some current labor market ‘rigidities’. However the other...
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5 October 2015
Great Britain: the Conservative Party launches its own trade union movement
The Conservative Party is launching a new organisation to represent trade unionists sympathetic to the Tories. It is called the Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists Movement. Robert Halfon MP...
5 October 2015
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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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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025