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Child labor: Amnesty International criticizes the lack of due diligence by big brand electronics and automobile names over mining conditions being used in producing their products
Major electronics and automobile brands have not been doing basic checks to ensure that their products do not include cobalt mined by children, criticized Amnesty International and African...
Russia: employees suffering from a crisis in the automobile sector
Russia’s automobile sector is going through its worst crisis for fifteen years. According to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), new vehicles sales plunged by more than a third in 2015...
19 January 2016
Finland: shop opening hours liberalized
In a bid to boost the economy, Finland’s government has just fully liberalized shop trading hours that took effect from the start of 2016. Unions in the retail sector are however wary of a...
19 January 2016
France: President François Hollande launches his “urgent plan” to combat unemployment
On 18 January, France’s president unveiled a series of measures to leaders of both the unions and employer’ bodies aimed at stopping the country’s unemployment from accelerating. The measures...
18 January 2016
Norway: in the face of the oil crisis, unity is sacrosanct
Redundancy announcements in the oil sector continue and Statoil is no exception since a global cost cutting program it launched several years ago ahead of consequences from the expected oil crisis...
18 January 2016
Spain: a new framework agreement for ArcelorMittal restores some of the advantages workers had forgone at the height of the economic crisis
On 15 January, the CCOO, UGT, ELA, and LAB unions announced they had concluded an agreement in principle on ArcelorMittal’s fifth framework agreement. Following years of effort by the company’s...
18 January 2016
Italy: CGIL, Cisl, and Uil put forward a new industrial relations model
On 14 January 2015, the executives at the CGIL, Cisl, and Uil union confederations approved a project for a new industrial relations model called “A modern industrial relations system. Towards...
18 January 2016
INOVYN: signature of an agreement to establish a European Works Council
The Solvay–Ineos joint venture has only recently got off the ground yet the chlorovinyls enterprise has already set up a European Works Council (EWC). On 07 January 2016 the agreement, negotiated...
14 January 2016
Great Britain: ACAS sounds the warning bell over bullying and harassment at work
The conciliation and arbitration service ACAS is warning that workplace harassment is a growing phenomenon in the UK and is calling on companies to change how they tackle the problem.
14 January 2016
News update as of 13 January 2016
Summary: protection for the right to a private life and instant messages (ECHR), French workers jailed for detaining bosses during a social conflict, Dutch metals negotiations at a standstill, an...
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13 January 2016
An employer can monitor employee Messenger communications (The European Court of Human Rights)
In a ruling handed down on 12 January 2016, the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed a Romanian engineer’s complaint that since his employer had monitored his Yahoo Messenger account he...
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12 January 2016
Germany: IG Metall and Verdi sign an agreement to share competences in the industrial services’ collective agreements
Putting an end to their rivalry in the industrial services sector (including logistics, maintenance, development), Germany’s two big unions, IG Metall (metals and electronics) and Verdi (services)...
12 January 2016
EWCs : two recent EWCs for Ferrero and Avril put online
Just before the end of 2015 both the Italian and French agri-food groups (Ferrero and Avril respectively) renewed their European works council (EWC) agreements. Both agreements were negotiated...
12 January 2016
Brazil: rising discord between the government and unions
Relations continue to break down between the government and the social actors during a time when the main central unions, currently opposing Dilma Rousseff’s government’s economic policy, are...
12 January 2016
Italy: Smart Working is taking off
In December 2015, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) concluded a company agreement implementing Smart Working (SW) in its Italian operations. This is the latest foray into this increasingly popular form...
12 January 2016
Great Britain: North Sea oil workers accept changes to working time organization in the face of lower oil prices
The long running industrial dispute between unionised North Sea oil workers and their employers over changes to shift working has ended. In response to a down turn in the price of oil, the members...
11 January 2016
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
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
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
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
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
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
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...
16 September 2026
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026