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Spain: union and employers’ organizations subject to new transparency regulations
The transparency act, which determines the conditions to access information about the management and usage of public money came into force on December 10. It contains the obligation for union and...
17 December 2013
Portugal: new criteria to choose which employee to dismiss when a job is cut
The government is preparing a list of criteria to choose the person who will be fired in case of individual layoffs when a position is removed. This form of layoff was made more flexible in the...
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16 December 2013
Great Britain: BMW and Unite sign agreement on the permanent recruitment of 1,000 agency workers
Following a deal struck between the Unite union and BMW, 1,000 agency workers will be given permanent contracts with guaranteed job security beyond 2020. Seven hundred are to be made permanent...
16 December 2013
Germany: Andrea Nahles, 43, SPD general secretary, becomes the new Minister for Employment and Social Affairs
After the members of the social-democratic party, SPD, agreed, on December 14, to the coalition contract negotiated since the end of September by the Christian Unions (CDU/CSU) and the SPD, Angela...
16 December 2013
France: social partners reach last minute agreement on the reform of vocational training
Simpler funding procedures for corporate training, new individual training account… the draft agreement reached by the social partners at 4 am on Saturday morning (December 14) amends the...
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16 December 2013
EU: Commission presents best practices guide on the anticipation of change and restructuring
Today, December 13, the European Commission released a communication on a quality framework for anticipation of Change and Restructuring (QFR). This is the long-awaited answer to the Parliament’s...
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13 December 2013
Great Britain: key labor law changes in 2014
For flexibility for employers when a company is sold or the possibility for employees to request flexible working… Planet Labor is presenting labor law measures that will come to force in the UK...
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13 December 2013
EU: refusal to award employees who contract a civil union with a same-sex person a conventional advantage awarded to those who get married can be discriminatory
In a decree rendered on December 12, the European Court of Justice declared that the provision of a collective agreement excluding same-sex partners who have entered into a civil union from the...
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13 December 2013
Italy: Alenia Aermacchi strikes deal with unions on new hours system in aviation industry
On November 14, Alenia Aermacchi signed, with the Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions and the employee representatives of its Grottaglie undertaking (Taranto), an agreement on the organization of labor that...
13 December 2013
Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway and social partners sign agreement preventing social dumping
On December 10, Metroselskabet signed a partnership agreement with union and employers’ organizations to improve joint actions against social dumping, to that the sites comply with the country’s...
12 December 2013
Germany: the number of apprenticeship contracts reaches another record level in the chemical industry
On December 11, the IG BCE union and the sector’s employers’ organization, BAVC, gave a unanimously positive report of their collective agreement on apprenticeship, signed in 2003 and renewed...
12 December 2013
Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules
Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...
12 December 2013
EU: Parliament and Council reach agreement preserving supplementary pension rights for migrant workers
The European Parliament and Council of Ministers agreed on regulations allowing European workers settling in another EU country to preserve their occupational pension rights. The new law aims to...
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11 December 2013
Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement
After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...
11 December 2013
Germany: Federal Labor Court rules agency workers aren’t systematically entitled to a employment contract, even if they perform an assignment that isn’t “temporary”
In a long-awaited decree rendered on December 10, the Federal Labor Court (BAG) gave satisfaction to an employer who refused to recruit a temporary worker assigned to the company for several...
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11 December 2013
Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry
On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...
11 December 2013
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Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
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
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...