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Sweden: series of agreements in the rail industry to prepare the future and avoid social dumping
The strike lasted for 3 weeks, during which Veolia Transport and SEKO (services and communication union) fought over a certain view of appeal to temporary contracts and the risks of social...
7 July 2014
Spain: unions call for mobilizations to defend the right to strike on July 9
256 union members are currently the subject of legal proceedings for facts that happened within the framework of a general strike. They incur heavy fines or prison sentences. The CCOO and UGT...
7 July 2014
Spain: regions inaugurate new cooperation between public employment services and private agencies to reintegrate jobseekers
The government has just agreed to the intervention of private agency in the reintegration of jobseekers into the labor market, together with public employment agencies. So far, only non-profit...
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4 July 2014
International: work on the development of binding international standards for multinational enterprises and human rights to start in 2015
The resolution adopted on June 26 by the UN’s Human Rights Council provides for the introduction of an Intergovernmental Working Group in 2015 to negotiate legally binding instrument on...
France: Supreme Court gives serious blow to the development of the notion of co-employment whereby the liability of a parent company can be engaged vis-à-vis employees in a subsidiary
In a decree rendered on July 2, the Supreme Court overturned the decision that defined the American parent company, Molex Inc., as “co-employer” of the 283 employees laid off by the French...
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3 July 2014
Germany: landmark vote of the Act introducing statutory universal minimum wage
Today, July 3, the Bundestag passed the “Act strengthening the social partners’ autonomy in collective bargaining” (Tarifautonomiestärkungsgesetz), introducing statutory minimum wage amounting to...
3 July 2014
EU: Europe at a turn in its history
There are many novelties: a new legislative term, a new President for the European Commission bringing a certain amount of hope, new strategic guidelines defined by the Twenty-Eight heads of State...
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3 July 2014
Great Britain: Unite the union demands referendum on the EU
The Unite union has passed a motion calling on the Labour Party to organize a referendum on maintaining the UK in the EU if it won the 2015 election. It’s the first time a major union has been in...
3 July 2014
Italy: construction social partners renew the sector’s national collective agreement
After tough negotiations characterized by a break and a national strike last December, Filca-Cisl, Feneal-Uil and Fillea-CGIL for unions and Ance and Coop for employers reached, on July 1, a deal...
3 July 2014
AXA: the EWC wants to be at the center of social dialogue on digitalization and its impact on employment
The digital revolution is at play in the insurance world, as in many other sectors. With changes that should take place in 2020, the management and group European council of AXA are going to use...
2 July 2014
Great Britain: The Unite union announces an “American-style campaign” to shame trade and hotel groups paying below the living wage
The Unite union at its 3rd policy conference warned supermarkets and hotel groups paying below the ‘living wage’ that they are to be targeted as part of a renewed effort to shame them into paying...
2 July 2014
Germany: Spanish youngsters in Berlin organize to defend their social rights
The Union Action Group (UAG) born in February is a platform to defend Spanish immigrants’ rights and put them in touch with German unions. Appeared in the wake of the Indignant movement and based...
2 July 2014
Germany: 4.5-percent wage increase over 24 months in the banking industry
After a dispute characterized by major warning strikes, the Verdi services union and associations of private and public banks agreed, on Monday, June 30, on a 4.5-percent wage increase divided in...
2 July 2014
Bolivia: new rules on child labor
Salaried work is allowed from the age of 14, but under several conditions, e.g. granting paid daily studying time and limiting access to some jobs considered as dangerous or a hazard to health...
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1 July 2014
Great Britain: soon, Nestlé will pay living wage, higher than minimum wage, to all its employees, including temps
Nestlé, the nutrition company, has promised to pay all its employees at the level of the living wage, including agency workers and workers employed by subcontractors, by 2017. This is a first for...
1 July 2014
United States: businesses’ religious liberty must take precedence over paying for their employees’ contraception
The US Supreme Court was very divided on this issue. However, on Monday, June 30, a majority of judges ruled that, by requesting that employers that provide their workers with health insurance pay...
1 July 2014
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Germany: pensioners in work already common practice, study shows
As the German government steps up measures to encourage people to stay in work beyond the legal retirement age, a new study by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) – an independent...
6 November 2025
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
The Spanish government has paved the way for the creation of a new status for "persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies, institutions or public or private organisations...
7 November 2025
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France: social conference on labour and pensions to proceed without main employers’ group
The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
5 November 2025
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
After lengthy negotiations with the social partners, in mid-October the Luxembourg government submitted two bills to parliament aimed at reforming the pension system to ensure its long-term...
6 November 2025
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Germany: bill adopted to step up fight against illegal employment
On Thursday 13 November, Germany's Bundestag passed a bill to modernise and digitalise the country’s system for tackling undeclared work and financial crime. In future, the relevant department at...
20 November 2025
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France: TotalEnergies steps up commitment on disability
On 9 October, French energy group TotalEnergies and all representative trade unions signed a new four-year agreement on disability inclusion. Taking effect on 1 January 2026, the deal aims to help...
13 November 2025