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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
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
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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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Germany: government seeks to facilitate immigration of skilled Indian workers
During a visit to India earlier this week, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz addressed the strategic importance of attracting Indian workers to Germany, signing a series of cooperation agreements...
15 January 2026
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Informal economy and slow wage growth hamper decent work, ILO says
The International Labour Organisation published its Employment ans Social Trends 2026 on 14 January. It anticipates unemployment stabilising in 2026 and employment growth of 1%, driven by...
16 January 2026