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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
Great Britain: Unite using social media to campaign Pizza Express to fully pass customer tips to its staff
The upmarket pizza restaurant chain, Pizza Express, which has 400 restaurants and over 10,000 employees, is experiencing a social media campaign to force the company to end its practice of...
17 July 2015
Slovakia: a new system of vocational education and training
Since 01 April 2015, Slovakia has a new system of vocational education and training that is largely based on the model used in Germany for example. The new system targets the successful...
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17 July 2015
Great Britain: Brexit remains a hot topic for the summer
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Such is the thorny question to which the British will conclusively reply by 2017. This referendum already worries and divides...
16 July 2015
Israel: first agreements over employee transfer conditions signed by Histadrut in the hi-tech sector
On 24 June the Israeli trade union organization Histadrut signed two collective agreements for employees of the Israeli-American company Comverse. The agreements cover conditions for workers due...
16 July 2015
Norway: principle of equal treatment breached to the benefit of temporary work agencies
On 06 July 2015 the Labor Administration adopted a regulation allowing temporary work agencies to waive equal treatment rules under certain conditions. Business leaders bodies have welcomed the...
16 July 2015
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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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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Slovakia: 6% increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2027
The news. As Slovakia’s social partners failed to reach an agreement during tripartite negotiations, Labour Minister Erik Tomas has decided to increase the minimum wage by 6% from 1 January...
1 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026