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EU: Jean-Claude Juncker has a delicate balancing act between investment spending and budget discipline
The European Commission’s new future President has committed to both spending 300 billions euros to stimulate economic growth and also balancing the books. He announced that during the European...
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10 October 2014
Netherlands: the federation of private sector halts the FNV transformation project
The transformation projects for the largest central Dutch union, the FNV, (c.f. article No. 8637) has stalled. Although it was aiming to merge its main sectoral federations so as to create a...
9 October 2014
Italy: Renzi’s ‘Jobs Act’ gets through the Senate after a confidence vote
After a day full of argument, Matteo Renzi won the vote of confidence in the Senate on bill that enables the government to overhaul the Italian labor market. The day before the prime Minister met...
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9 October 2014
Great Britain: starting gun fires for a wide-ranging review on employment status and rights
After the government’s recent review of zero hours contracts it now intends to examine employers’ rights in order to simplify and clarify the current various employment statuses (worker, employee...
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9 October 2014
Corporate Practice: how the REWE group and DZ bank are helping employees to reconcile their careers and caring for a dependent parent
At a time when the German Minister for Families is working on a “draft law aimed at better reconciling family life, care for a dependent parent, and ones professional career”, several large German...
9 October 2014
Belgium: the future government details the social reforms in its government program
In the evening of Tuesday October 7, the four negotiating political parties reached an agreement to form a government, a little more than four months after the general election. The main thrusts...
8 October 2014
Netherlands: transformation of the FNV trade union confederation is well underway
The country’s strongest trade union the FNV is going through a period of transition, ever since the deep crisis in 2011, which revealed internal weaknesses and which led the organisation to ...
8 October 2014
Prosegur: UNI Global has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate recent attacks on unionists in both Colombia and Peru
On October 7, a delegation from UNI Global led by General Secretary Philip Jennings filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to denounce human rights violations that may have...
8 October 2014
Argentina: unions and the parliamentary opposition view the new Civil Code as a threat to workers’ rights
On October 1, Argentina’s parliamentary majority voted for the unification of the former Civil and Commercial Codes, considered “too archaic and not relevant to Argentina’s modern society”. The...
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7 October 2014
United States: a trade union for the Mercedes plant in Alabama
After spending time unionizing the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee the United Auto Workers are now setting their sights on the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama be opening a local...
7 October 2014
Canada: the Ontario Ministry of Labour blitzes illegal internships
Unpaid internships are increasingly widespread in Canada and are for the most part totally illegal. Following a series of press reports about businesses using this unlawful practice, the Ontario...
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7 October 2014
Italy: agreement in the metal industry to transpose changes in the reform over short-term contracts
Both union signatories of the national metal industry collective agreement, FIM-Cisl and Uilm-Uil announced that they and the employers bodies Federmeccanica and Assistal had signed an agreement...
6 October 2014
Unlimited vacation time: dream or nightmare for human resource departments?
‘Unlimited vacation’ is coming into vogue in the U.S where 1% of businesses have already implemented the system (‘unlimited vacation’ is a shorthand version for a company policy that allows its...
3 October 2014
Norway: a new LO trade union for engineers to attract more graduates from higher education
Having been three years in the making, the trade union LO Ingeniør got officially up and running on 8 September. Five separate trade unions belonging to LO (The Norwegian Confederation of Trade...
3 October 2014
Germany: showdown around “One company, one trade union” escalating after a 91% vote by Deutsche Bahn train drivers for an all-out strike
A juncture has been reached in the dispute between the German train drivers' union (GDL) and Deutsche Bahn management. 91% of the 27,000 GDL members employed by DB supported shifting from a...
2 October 2014
Great Britain: Political party conferences announce policies to woo voters at the next general election set for May 2015
With the next general election in May 2015 only eight months away, the last round of annual conferences of the main political parties has taken on an added importance as they begin to lay out...
2 October 2014
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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