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International: worrisome negotiations over an agreement to liberalize trade in services
If it hadn’t been for the Wikileaks revelations released in June 2014 no one or almost no one would have heard of TiSA – the Trade in Services Agreement that aims at liberalizing the international...
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16 September 2014
Germany: ArcelorMittal Bremen management requires that companies contracted to provide services adhere to the social charter negotiated with the works council
Under pressure from the works council at ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH (AMB), management and the council together have developed a ‘social charter’. It targets companies looking to sign service...
EU: an ECJ ruling states that employees transferred are to retain their earlier working conditions, as concluded under their terminated collective agreements
Judges in the European Court of Justice ruled that the transferred employees are to be covered by the working conditions of the collective agreement terminated before the transfert but yet...
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15 September 2014
Great Britain: government measures succeed in reducing backlogs in employment tribunals
According to government statistics employment tribunals again witnessed a reduction in individual claims over the period from April to June 2014. David Cameron’s team welcomed the fact that the...
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15 September 2014
Italy: the CGIL, Cisl and Uil central unions front a united platform on the taxation and benefits system
The three central unions, CGIL, Cisl, and Uil will this month complete consultations on their united platform concerning taxation and benefits. They hope it will serve to defend their common...
12 September 2014
Germany: social partners in the chemical sector have launched an initiative promoting “health management”
On Wednesday September 10, 2014 the social partners in the chemical sector presented an initiative called “healthy work under good conditions in the chemical sector”. The initiative forms part of...
12 September 2014
Chile: unions put pressure on the government to remove the Labor Code, left-over from the Pinochet era
On September 4, 2014, 44 years to the day after the victory of Salvador Allende during the presidential elections, the main confederation of Chilean unions the CUT called for a demonstration...
12 September 2014
Brazil: the government recognizes five central organizations as representative trade unions
At the end of the annual meeting in July 2014, the Minister for Labor and Employment recognized five representative central trade unions. The five in order of importance are: the Unified Workers...
12 September 2014
Denmark: the two main union confederations -LO and FTF – are studying a possible merger
In an historic meeting on September 9, 2014, the LO (The Danish Confederation of Trade Unions) and the FTF (the Confederation of Professionals in Denmark) agreed on unprecedented cooperation so as...
11 September 2014
Germany: the slow decline in apprenticeships continues (DGB report)
Each year the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) presents an annual report on the state of apprenticeships in the country. Whilst 71.4% of those questioned are satisfied with their...
11 September 2014
Portugal: social negotiations resume with demands for a rise in the minimum wage
The Portuguese social partners are starting negotiations on raising the national minimum wage with the government is looking to raise the level as of January 1, 2015. However unions are looking...
11 September 2014
India: the beginning of a major overhaul of the labor law
On September 8, 2014, Narenda Singh Tomar, the Federal Minister for Labor and Employment officially launched a series of measures aimed at amending 44 laws governing work, many of which date back...
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11 September 2014
EU: the Juncker Commission unveiled
Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission president today unveiled his team and the new setup of the next European Commission. After having come through one of the most testing periods in its...
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10 September 2014
United States: difficult negotiations in Schneider Electric over the move to a pension plan that does not guarantee final pension amounts
The tendency to move from defined benefit pensions plans towards defined contribution plans which do not guarantee final pension amounts is being driven by the onerous costs of such plans to...
10 September 2014
Italy: Premier Matteo Renzi may try to reform the famous Article 18, which obliges employers to reinstate workers – an area where the right-wing parties have failed in the past
A draft bill enabling the government to completely overhaul the labor law and may also introduce a legal minimum wage is due to be presented before the Senate on September 18, 2014 with final...
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10 September 2014
Sweden: Volvo Cars implements a new agreement on working time flexibility
Volvo Personvagnar (Volvo Cars) is Sweden’s primary automobile constructor. Since 2010 the company has been owned by the Chinese group Geely (Zhejiang Geely Holding Group). During production of...
9 September 2014
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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...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025