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Germany: the Bundestag passes a law on gender quotas for German companies’ supervisory boards.
On Friday March 06, following years of controversy, the Bundestag voted by a large majority to pass a law that introduces a quota for female representation on the supervisory boards of Germany’s...
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6 March 2015
EU: the European Commission seeks to revive social dialogue at both national and European levels
On Thursday March 05, all the European social partners gathered together in Brussels for a high-level conference hosted by the EU Commission called ‘A New Start for Social Dialogue’. Speaking to...
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6 March 2015
United States: Congress opposes a proposed NLRB regulation on unionization
The war of attrition being waged against the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) continues. The majority led Senate adopted a proposition that blocks the NLRB’s December 2014 new union election...
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6 March 2015
Spain: the CCOO union adopts a code of conduct aimed at protecting itself from further controversy
In response to several unsavory episodes involving CCOO heads, its confederal council has approved an internal code of conduct. The document addresses a number of changes in internal operations...
5 March 2015
Sweden: a new collective agreement for the banks
On March 02 and following four months of negotiations, Finansförbundet (Financial Sector Union of Sweden) and BAO (Employers’ Organization of the Swedish Banking Institutions) signed a new pay and...
5 March 2015
Germany: an ‘employers’ study concludes that trade unions have indeed made a comeback
Since the financial crisis back in 2006, German trade unions have extended both their presence in German companies and their political influence at national level. They are now reconciled with...
4 March 2015
Great Britain: significant agreement over industrial relations at Royal Mail
Barely a year after signing a landmark agreement in February 2014, both the privatized British postal delivery group Royal Mail and the CWU union appear, in Lionel Sampson’s (CWU) words, to have...
4 March 2015
Germany: digitization is a massive challenge facing HR units (feedback from the German Association for Personnel Management congress)
How is the rapid rise in digitization changing business models and value chains? What is the impact on how work is organized? What is HR’s role in the face of the challenges that the digital...
3 March 2015
Great Britain: the GMB succeeds in signing more new union recognition agreements
Data shows that unions continue to sign new recognition agreements and gain new representation and bargaining rights for their members. Even if the actual number of signed agreements is lower than...
3 March 2015
Germany: another setback for the draft law on occupational health and safety
The new workplace law (Arbeitsstätteverordnung) will not come into force as scheduled on March 01, 2013. The German press reported severe criticism by business leaders that pressured the...
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2 March 2015
Nordea: together with the four Nordic unions, employees from the Polish subsidiary establish a new union in Poland
Union cooperation in Nordea has contributed to a new union for employees of the group’s Polish subsidiary, who had up until now been only lightly unionized. The underlying objective is to...
2 March 2015
United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize
Silicon Valley’s support workers are joining forces. Shuttle bus drivers for Apple, Yahoo, Ebay, Zynga, Genetech, and Amtrak have voted for representation by Teamsters Local 853 with a view to...
2 March 2015
Allianz SE: revision to the employee participation agreement
On July 03, 2014 an agreement revising an earlier one (2006) covering employee participation in the Allianz insurance company was signed during the SE works council meeting. The progress of...
27 February 2015
Switzerland: extended working hours are ‘negotiated’ in response to the soaring Swiss franc
On January 15, 2015 the Swiss central bank lifted its cap on the Swiss Franc leading to a soaring currency. As a result more and more Swiss businesses, for the most part industrial exporters, have...
27 February 2015
ILO: employers and unions settle the dispute over the right to strike
Following three days of talks that ended on February 25, the ITUC announced that an agreement had been concluded between representatives of both unions and employers about the right to strike...
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26 February 2015
France: the Prime Minister presents the main points of reforms to social dialogue in businesses as well as the 2015 Social Agenda.
As announced after the social partners failed to agree on personnel representation bodies, the government is stepping in to “fully assume its responsibilities” and at the end of March/beginning of...
26 February 2015
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
Spain is preparing for the implementation of its national law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will take effect on 7 June 2026. The legislation marks another step forward in...
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
4 November 2025
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EU: Court of Justice largely upholds directive on adequate minimum wages
On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
12 November 2025
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
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Germany: report previews draft bill to transpose EU Pay Transparency Directive
On Friday 7 November, Germany’s commission for a 'less bureaucratic implementation' of the EU Pay Transparency Directive — made up of employer and trade union representatives — submitted its...
17 November 2025
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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