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Germany: 2025 to be a quieter year on the collective bargaining front
On 30 October, the Hans Böckler Trade Union Foundation’s Institute for Economic and Social Sciences (WSI) presented its timetable for the collective wage agreements to be negotiated by...
5 November 2024
France: Carrefour launches plan to offer training to staff with reading difficulties
On 4 November, Alexandre Bompard, CEO of the Carrefour retail group (305,000 employees), announced the launch of a plan to raise awareness and provide training on reading difficulties. It will...
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4 November 2024
France: Adecco launches AI-based tool to prevent workplace accidents among temporary workers
To optimise workplace accident prevention, the Adecco Group has developed a predictive tool based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. This management support, currently deployed in all its...
4 November 2024
Poland: additional maternity leave for parents of babies in hospital
On 29 October, the Council of Ministers adopted a bill introducing additional maternity leave for parents of premature babies or babies born at full term but requiring hospitalisation. This leave...
30 October 2024
Italy: UniCredit fosters staff retraining and generational renewal
A new plan to overhaul the Italian bank (32,381 employees), which has been approved by the unions, puts the emphasis on training: 600 employees will follow an innovative requalification programme...
30 October 2024
Germany: crisis at Volkswagen and warning strikes in metalworking industry
Germany's metalworking and automotive sectors are going through a difficult time, with a series of major developments occuring concurrently. We learned on Monday that the management at Volkwagen...
29 October 2024
Ireland: bill passed allowing postponement of maternity leave in event of serious illness
On 23 October, the Irish parliament adopted a bill introducing the right for an employee to postpone her maternity leave in the event of serious illness (physical or mental), subject to medical...
29 October 2024
Colombia: lower house approves major labour reform
The reform approved by the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia on 17 October is designed to give workers more rights, such as four weeks' paternity leave, days off for medical appointments and...
28 October 2024
Italy: companies in Rome encouraged to adopt remote work during preparations for Jubilee
In the run-up to Jubilee 2025, which opens on 24 December 2024, the Mayor of Rome and the social partners signed a pact on 16 October encouraging private companies to make maximum use of hybrid or...
28 October 2024
Germany: Chancellor Olaf Scholz attacks application of due diligence law
At a meeting with German employers on 22 October, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, of the Social Democratic Party, announced his intention to water down the German law on the due diligence, which...
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25 October 2024
France: minimum wage to rise from 1 November
Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, the French Minister for Labour and Employment, presented to the Council of Ministers on 23 October a decree raising the minimum wage (Smic) by 2% from 1 November 2024...
25 October 2024
Slovakia: minimum wage to reach 60% of average wage from 2026
On 23 October, parliament approved a bill to change the rules for setting the minimum wage. As a result, from 2026, the minimum wage may not be less than 60% of the average wage two years...
24 October 2024
Inditex global agreement extended to due diligence and digitalisation
On 10 October, Inditex renewed its global agreement with UNI Global Union, covering 165,000 employees in 215 countries, and extended it to cover the digitalisation of retail and vigilance over...
24 October 2024
Bulgaria: minimum wage to rise by more than 15% from January 2025
On 20 October, acting labour and social policy minister Ivaylo Ivanov announced on the national television channel bTV that the minimum wage would be increased by 15.4% from next year. It will...
23 October 2024
Longer careers: a new state of affairs for companies
At a time when many countries are raising their retirement age, with reforms set to accelerate in 2025, the issue of employing older workers is becoming all the more pressing. How can it be...
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23 October 2024
Finland: bill seeks to withdraw work permits from foreigners after three months’ unemployment
On 17 September, the new right-wing coalition government submitted draft amendments to the Aliens Act to Parliament. It proposes withdrawing work permits from foreigners after three months of...
22 October 2024
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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
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
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025