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Russia: AvtoVAZ offers mutual contract termination for employees close to retirement
The number one automobile manufacturer in Russia, Avtovaz — a subsidiary of Renault-Nissan —, is offering compensation to older employees to encourage them to retire or take early retirement. This...
2 April 2015
Italy: last-minute agreement on renewal of national collective agreement in the banking sector
A gross monthly increase of 85 euros over 4 years, an 8% wage increase for young workers employed, a guarantee that if a bank merges or is sold, the employees concerned will keep their permanent...
2 April 2015
Belgium: 2015 budget adjustment includes measures to create jobs for young people and in the e-commerce sector and the hotel and restaurant industry
The coalition government in Belgium has reached an agreement to adopt measures which will help create jobs in e-commerce as well as in ‘Horeca’, the hotel and restaurant industry. It is hoped that...
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2 April 2015
Norway: pragmatic wage negotiations
“We’ve won”, claimed Skogen Lund, president of NHO (the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) and Gerd Kristiansen, president of LO (the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions) at the conclusion...
1 April 2015
Japan: big businesses deliver record wage rises
Toyota Motor Corp., the country’s industry leader in terms of this Spring’s (Shunto) wage negotiations has agreed with its trade union a 4000¥ (31 €) rise in monthly wages, representing the...
1 April 2015
Italy: more flexibility in return for higher wages contained in the for the services sector agreement (excl. tourism)
On March 30 and after a year of negotiations, the employers’ General Confederation of Italian Commerce and Tourism confederation, Confcommercio, together with the unions signed Italy’s largest...
1 April 2015
Suez Environnement: signature of a European agreement on gender equality in the workplace
Together, Suez Environnement, the European Federation of Public Service Unions EPSU, and the special negotiation group for the agreement, signed on March 31, a European agreement on gender...
31 March 2015
Sweden: tripartite discussion over improved use of immigrant workers skills
A fast-track (snabbspår) to suitable work. This is what the Swedish social partners are aiming for so that improved integration into the workplace can be achieved for immigrants looking to settle...
31 March 2015
Germany: a 2.8% rise in chemical sector wages plus significant increases in employer contributions to the ‘Demographic Fund’
A 2.8% wage rise over 17 months and over 24 months an almost doubling of employer contributions to the sector’s ‘Demographic Fund’. Thus were the results of collective negotiations in the chemical...
30 March 2015
Italy: renewed union opposition to the Jobs Act
In reply to a call by Fiom, the metals branch of the CGIL union, roughly 15,000 Italian turned out onto the streets of Rome on Saturday March 28 to protest increasing insecurity in the jobs market...
30 March 2015
Safran: European framework agreement for developing skills and career paths
On March 25 the French company together with the European union federation IndustriALL Europe signed an agreement on professional and occupational development. The agreement contains some common...
30 March 2015
Germany: a plethora of different bonuses for workers in automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals
It’s fast becoming a tradition: each good year for the German economy sees a plethora of different bonuses being paid to workers, primarily in the automobile, chemicals and pharmaceuticals...
27 March 2015
United States : Microsoft raises the bar for contract workers
Microsoft has decided to impose mandatory vacation and sick paid leaves for its contractors employees.
Great Britain : Employment Tribunal implements decision that commission pay is part of holiday pay calculation
In a significant step, an Employment Tribunal asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify for it the relationship between holiday pay and commission pay when faced with a claim that...
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27 March 2015
United States: The Supreme Court raises judicial issues pertaining to employees who request pregnancy accommodation
By refusing to accommodate a request by a pregnant UPS employee to be put on ‘light duty’, the shipment and logistics company may actually have disadvantaged this employee compared with other...
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27 March 2015
Great Britain : a law to limit exclusivity clauses in zero-hour contracts
On 24 March, the British Parliament gave the green light to the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill; it contains a long awaited amendment to the exclusivity clauses of the much...
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26 March 2015
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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...
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...