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Italy: agreement for maintaining temporary worker positions at the Melfi Fiat Chrysler Automobile plant
Temporary employment agencies that supply the Fiat Chrysler Automobile (FCA) plant at Melfi together with the unions have come to an agreement over continuing employing temporary staff. It...
2 September 2015
ABN AMRO : global framework agreement with UNI Global Union signed
The banking sector, currently lagging behind other sectors in terms of transnational collective bargaining, looks to be catching up. The Dutch bank is the most recent and The Netherlands first...
2 September 2015
Great Britain: Cameron waters down renegotiation stance with the EU
Up until now British PM David Cameron has favored a total opt-out from European work directives. Recent press reports however indicate that he is willing to water this position down to only...
1 September 2015
Multinational corporations: increasingly accountable for their human rights behavior?
In the United States a consumer action group set up in protest at the modern slavery policy used in Nestlé’s supply chain in Thailand for the production of pets feed products represents the latest...
India: general strike set for September 02 protesting against government labor reforms
Ten central union organizations have called for a general strike on September 02 to protest against current and future reforms by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The strike action has...
1 September 2015
Denmark: the 3F union and the Dansk Erhverv Chamber of Commerce have launched a joint campaign to promote temporary work
Highlighting the advantages of temporary work, both the 3F union and Dansk Erhverv the Danish Chamber of Commerce (trade, tourism, business services, IT, welfare services and transportation) are...
1 September 2015
Belgium: government returns after summer break and sets to implement tax shift policies
At the end of July the Belgian government came to agreement over tax reforms to shift some of employees’ tax burden to other areas. The first arrangements for this were presented at the close of...
31 August 2015
United States: The National Labor Relations Board broadens the notion of joint employer
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), (a US government independent agency charged with regulating US labor relations) has just broadened the notion of ‘joint employer’ to extend to all...
31 August 2015
EU: the European Commission presents a series of options substituting its withdrawal of the draft Maternity Leave Directive
The European Commission had previously indicated it would put forward proposals to relaunch policies aimed at achieving better work-life balance as a substitute for withdrawing the draft Maternity...
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31 August 2015
Great Britain: 4% pay rise for Sainsbury’s supermarket staff
Under pressure from campaigning efforts to raise low pay, Sainsbury’s, Britain’s number two supermarket chain, has raised most of its employees’ pay by 4%. This marks a surprise pay rise given...
31 August 2015
Italy: moves towards restricting the right to strike for essential public services
Renzi’s government is looking to rely on a majority in parliament in a bid in September 2015 to ‘reform’ the right to strike. Two legal drafts will cover conditions over calling for strike action...
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29 July 2015
Randstad: a new European Works Council (under European Directive 2009/38/EC) replaces its former agreed voluntary structure
Since 1996 the Dutch multinational employment agency has operated under an agreed voluntary information and consultation structure (the Randstad European Platform). On 10 July 2015, together with...
29 July 2015
Luxembourg: reform of law on company social dialogue
The law of 23 July 2015 reforming social dialogue within companies was published in the Memorial on 27 July 2015. The law does away with the ‘Comité Mixte’ (joint committees), transferring...
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29 July 2015
Belgium: the government starts shifting the tax burden from employment revenue towards a broader spectrum of revenue sources
“An engine for growth and employment,” is how Prime Minister Charles Michel presented the agreement on the 2015 budget adjustment and the 2016 draft budget that was concluded on the night of 22/23...
24 July 2015
Spain: Coca-Cola’s restructuring plan cancelled and company has to give workers back their jobs if they want
Following the court’s cancellation of Coca-Cola Spain’s redundancy plan the company is preparing to reopen its Madrid site as a logistics center whilst keeping its other three sites shut...
24 July 2015
France: law to reform industrial relations gets adopted
On 23 July, the French parliament gave final approval to adopt a draft law to simplify employee representation bodies and alleviate the level of formalism that so often characterizes social...
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24 July 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