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Italy: Deutsche Bank and Unicredit sign agreements with unions on implementation of provisions on the protection of customers’ privacy to ban remote control of workers
Unicredit and then Deutsche Bank are the two latest firms that signed - both at the end of May - an agreement transposing the banking industry’s national framework agreement signed in April. That...
9 June 2014
Great Britain: nearly 14 percent of Britons work from home
4.2 million British people worked from their homes in the first 2014 quarter. Unions are hoping to keep improving this historical record.
9 June 2014
Argentina: General Motors launches plan to suspend production but maintains its workers’ entire salary
A consequence of the crisis in the auto industry in Latin America, the American carmaker is thinking about suspending production for 1 day a week until December. Workers won the trial of strength...
9 June 2014
EU: the Commission presents a strategic framework on health and safety for 2014-2020
Today, June 6, the European Commission presented its strategic framework on health and safety for 2014-2020, which identifies major challenges and strategic objectives in this area and defines a...
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6 June 2014
Great Britain: Unite tries to regain its health after the Ineos defeat by preparing a long dispute against SCA Logistics on the use of zero-hours contrcts
After a 2-day strike last month against the introduction of zero hour contracts, Unite members at SCA Logistics at Tilbury docks have begun an 11-day strike to continue their battle. The fear of...
6 June 2014
The question of social responsibility raised at the General Assembly of T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom’s American subsidiary
The social responsibility issue is becoming key at T-Mobile USA. The company’s last general meeting showed that T-Mobile’s major investors agreed with the American unions, backing their efforts...
Denmark: deal to keep a Danish Crown slaughter factory from closing by creating an investment firm where workers will send part of their salary
To rescue Danish Crown’s slaughterhouse in Rønne, on Bornholm island, an investment company will be created: for 5 years, employees will send 3.5 percent of their salary – an investment they can...
5 June 2014
Spain: employers’ organizations are trying to lower collective agreements, even in sectors that are doing well
For 2 years, all collective agreements that are renegotiated lower the advantages provided for in the previous agreements. The difficult ongoing negotiations for the collective agreement in the...
5 June 2014
Portugal: new criteria enforced for the order of economic layoffs
Now, to lay someone off because their job has become extinct, Portuguese businesses will have to follow a certain hierarchy. The Labor Code changes enforced on June 1 put reverse seniority as the...
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5 June 2014
Germany: about only 50 percent of employees work in a company covered by a sectoral collective agreement
According to a survey released on June 2 by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the erosion of the collective agreements system, which started in the mid-90s, continues in Germany. In...
5 June 2014
Great Britain: government announces another pension reform and a war against excessive zero hours contracts
More defense of minimum wage, developing apprenticeship or even reforming pensions based on the Dutch system… in her traditional annual speech - which addresses the plans the coalition in power is...
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4 June 2014
Germany: businesses are paying more and more attention to diversity
Round tables, short films, exhibitions, information stands, “cross-cultural” menus… For the “Second German Diversity Day,” which took place on June 3 across the country, more than 300 businesses...
4 June 2014
Manpower: Rachid Brihi, lawyer at the Grumbach et Associés law firm, tells us, “Uni Europa, CGT and Unite sue Manpower for obstruction of establishment of a European Works Council”
“We’ve pressed charges against Manpower France to demand the establishment of an EWC by virtue of the subsidiary provisions included in the French Labor Code,” Rachid Brihi, lawyer at the Grumbach...
4 June 2014
Netherlands: for the third time in a row, cleaning workers mobilize to improve their collective agreements
The trade unions FNV Bondgenoten and CNV Vakmensen reached an agreement with the employers’ organisation OSB (Ondernemerorganisatie Schoonmaak en Bedrijfsdiensten - Employers organisation for...
3 June 2014
EU: 2014 edition of the Commission’s country-specific reform recommendations
On June 2, the European Commission adopted its country-specific recommendations on the reforms to adopt in order to improve growth, employment and competitiveness within the framework of the...
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3 June 2014
Ukraine: the political crisis’ impact on the labor market
Ukraine, about to go bankrupt, needs to reform its economy in depth. Growth will be negative in 2014 - 6.5 percent according to the latest forecasts released by the International Center for...
3 June 2014
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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