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News update as of 25 February 2016
Belgium/Agreement in the temporary employment sector over electronic employment contracts. On Tuesday 23 February, unions in the temporary employment sector announced the conclusion of a new...
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25 February 2016
Germany: IG Metall union contemplating testing a new strike tactic during the upcoming metals collective negotiations
Against a backdrop of preparations being in full swing for the upcoming negotiations on renewing the metals and electro technical collective agreement, the IG Metall union has confirmed that it...
24 February 2016
Norway and Sweden: debate over a 6-hour working day
It's a recurring question: why not generalize a 6-hour working day in order to optimize production and fight unemployment? This is the unions’ message, and businesses from various sectors have...
24 February 2016
Finland: unions ready to discuss decentralizing collective negotiation
Decentralizing collective negotiation is one of the points on the negotiating table currently being discussed by unions, employers, and the government in the context of improving Finland’s...
24 February 2016
Deutsche Bahn: the EWC negotiates its first ‘European social plan’
Well-known German rail operator Deutsche Bahn is to divide its accounting businesses across three new centers. For Europe, the Global Accounting Shared Service Center Europe will no longer operate...
23 February 2016
Belgium: launch of social consultation over labor legislation reform
Employment Minister Kris Peeters announced that he would be submitting ten points for a labor legislation reform to the Group of 10 consultation body made up of unions and employers in a bid to...
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23 February 2016
Brazil: difficult start to negotiations over the future of pensions
The Rousseff government's key reform has sparked mistrust in both unions and companies. On 17 February, during a first working meeting on the issue, dialogue looked like it would be difficult, and...
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23 February 2016
Portugal: employers’ social contribution payments lowered by 0.75% for employees on the minimum wage and early retirement is frozen
The Portuguese government has lowered employers’ social contributions payments by 0.75% for employees on the minimum wage, and for a period of one year. The TSU, or Unique Social Tax will move...
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23 February 2016
Italy: unions mobilize to safeguard jobs during this period of industrial consolidation
For some weeks, several individual mobilizations have sounded alarm bells over the impact on Italy’s industrial future of divestitures, closures and offshoring, being implemented by various...
22 February 2016
Romania: a new collective agreement for Ford Craiova in a bid to preserve jobs
Together, the trade union and management at the Ford Romania plant in Craiova have agreed on a new collective labor agreement, to run for the next two years. Whilst management had been targeting a...
22 February 2016
Great Britain: in spite of securing a special agreement, Brexit divides the country more than ever
The campaign has been launched. Unions, employers, MPs: despite Prime Minister David Cameron securing what has been termed as an historic agreement from Brussels on 19 February, the British people...
22 February 2016
News update as of 18 February 2016
Great Britain/The ILO intervenes in discussions over reforms to the right to strike (Trade Union Bill). The ILO Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and...
18 February 2016
Italy: a rise in the number of permanent employment contracts in 2015 thanks to exemptions for employers
On 16 February, the National Institute of Social Security, (INPS) published data on employment changes for 2015. The main new news is the 47% rise in the number of permanent employment contracts...
17 February 2016
Great Britain: a report recommends more social regulations for the self-employed
A report commissioned by the government recommends that the spectacularly growing numbers of self-employed should be afforded a status more in line with regular employees especially when it comes...
17 February 2016
Russia: record wave of protests in businesses in 2015
Trudprava (the Center for Social and Labor Rights (CSLR)) is about to publish a report on collective labor related conflicts in Russia for 2015 with the count standing at 409 conflict situations...
17 February 2016
Spain: three candidates looking to take the helm of the UGT union confederation
Candido Mendez, UGT secretary general will step down from the position during its 42nd congress being held from 09-12 March 2016 in Madrid. Potential successors are trying to rally support for...
16 February 2016
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5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
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Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
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17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
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