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United States : towards a 15$ minimum wage in New York’s fast-food industry
After almost two years of mobilization, a decision by local authorities on Wednesday will see fast–food workers in the State of New York earning a minimum wage of $15 an hour in 2021 (in 2018 of...
23 July 2015
Greece: Parliament assuages its creditors in adopting pension reforms and now has to address labor law reforms in August
Two of the measures required by Greece’s creditors in order to release a third bailout plan of over 80 billion € were voted in by parliament leaving MPs now having to legislate over labor laws...
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23 July 2015
Great Britain: Lloyds Bank Group derecognizes one of its founding trade unions amid intra-trade union discord
The Lloyds Bank Group is to derecognise its biggest union, the Lloyds Trade Union (LTU) that represents some 30,000 members in the group. This results from a breakdown in industrial relations with...
20 July 2015
France: unions cannot take the place of EWCs when contesting the pertinence of the implementation of an information procedure
On 17 July the Nanterre High Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance) ruled that the two union bodies in question could not take action, (rather than the EWC), with respect to information procedures...
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20 July 2015
Italy: Fim and Uilm present a common platform to renew the national metal sector collective agreement
On 16 July both management centers in Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil approved a common platform to renew the metal sector national collective agreement (from 2016-2018) that comes to expiry on 31 December...
20 July 2015
Great Britain: Unite using social media to campaign Pizza Express to fully pass customer tips to its staff
The upmarket pizza restaurant chain, Pizza Express, which has 400 restaurants and over 10,000 employees, is experiencing a social media campaign to force the company to end its practice of...
17 July 2015
Slovakia: a new system of vocational education and training
Since 01 April 2015, Slovakia has a new system of vocational education and training that is largely based on the model used in Germany for example. The new system targets the successful...
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17 July 2015
Great Britain: Brexit remains a hot topic for the summer
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Such is the thorny question to which the British will conclusively reply by 2017. This referendum already worries and divides...
16 July 2015
Israel: first agreements over employee transfer conditions signed by Histadrut in the hi-tech sector
On 24 June the Israeli trade union organization Histadrut signed two collective agreements for employees of the Israeli-American company Comverse. The agreements cover conditions for workers due...
16 July 2015
Norway: principle of equal treatment breached to the benefit of temporary work agencies
On 06 July 2015 the Labor Administration adopted a regulation allowing temporary work agencies to waive equal treatment rules under certain conditions. Business leaders bodies have welcomed the...
16 July 2015
Great Britain : Government introduces Bill to Parliament for long awaited reforms of industrial action
The Conservative government has published its long awaited Trade Union Bill. It includes measures on new, more stringent thresholds for mandates for industrial action as well as allowing employers...
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15 July 2015
EU: the European Social Partners set out their work program for 2015-2017
The 5th autonomous work program developed between the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the business leaders organization BusinessEurope, the CEEP (The European Centre of Employers and...
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15 July 2015
Germany: two forward thinkers to take over at the helm of IG Metall from October 2015
IG Metall, the world’s biggest sectoral trade union with 2.3 million members is about to renew its management team. On 14 July management at the union designated its candidate to succeed the...
15 July 2015
International Aerospace industry unions adopt an action plan to bolster their influence and combat precarious work
Representatives of 25 aerospace unions in 16 countries across 5 continents came together on July 01 and 02 for a global conference on strengthening union presence in the sector and structuring...
15 July 2015
Belgium: agreement for the large-scale retail sector on work organization and security inside the shops
Negotiations were long and tense between the union organizations and COMEOS, the commerce sector’s employers’ federation but ended in agreement on 29 June. Disagreement had centered on the issue...
15 July 2015
Great Britain : government announces all companies of 250 staff have to publish statistics on gender pay gap
The government has announced that all companies employing over 250 staff will be legally compelled to publish statistics on the pay gap in their organisation between men and women from 2016. The...
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14 July 2015
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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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Germany: pensioners in work already common practice, study shows
As the German government steps up measures to encourage people to stay in work beyond the legal retirement age, a new study by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) – an independent...
6 November 2025
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
The Spanish government has paved the way for the creation of a new status for "persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies, institutions or public or private organisations...
7 November 2025
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France: social conference on labour and pensions to proceed without main employers’ group
The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
5 November 2025
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
After lengthy negotiations with the social partners, in mid-October the Luxembourg government submitted two bills to parliament aimed at reforming the pension system to ensure its long-term...
6 November 2025
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Germany: bill adopted to step up fight against illegal employment
On Thursday 13 November, Germany's Bundestag passed a bill to modernise and digitalise the country’s system for tackling undeclared work and financial crime. In future, the relevant department at...
20 November 2025
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France: TotalEnergies steps up commitment on disability
On 9 October, French energy group TotalEnergies and all representative trade unions signed a new four-year agreement on disability inclusion. Taking effect on 1 January 2026, the deal aims to help...
13 November 2025