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Germany: Angela Merkel confirms statutory minimum wage
Yesterday, November 21, the Chancellor confirmed, more clearly than ever, that Germany was going to adopt statutory minimum wage. This concession, obtained following friction with the...
21 November 2013
Great Britain: businesses with employee ownership will have their stock index
Improving employee ownership is one of the leitmotivs of the Cameron team, which recently announced the creation of a tailor-made stock index to identify businesses where at least 3 percent of...
21 November 2013
CSR in 200 Indian firms under the microscope
Since August 2013, India has been one of the only countries in the world to impose that large businesses dedicate 2 percent of their net earnings to responsible investments. In a survey published...
Spain: new program promotes women’s access to companies’ top
40 executive women were chosen by their company to follow a training cycle and be promoted faster in order to move faster towards effective and real equal opportunities. This initiative, called...
EU: in 2014/15, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Campaign will tackle stress and psychosocial risks
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Bilbao) is the EU’s body in charge of gathering, analyzing and spreading information on these issues to meet the stakeholders’ needs in the field...
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21 November 2013
EU: soon, permanent adoption of the Erasmus+ European exchange program
On Tuesday, November 19, the European Parliament adopted the European Union’s program on education and training, which received strong consensus: “do everything to avoid scarifying this...
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20 November 2013
Brazil: OAS construction group to pay a BRL 15 million fine for slavery
OAS, the public construction company, one of the biggest in the country, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) for “maintaining 150 workers in a situation nearing...
20 November 2013
Australia: government wants to set up independent monitoring organization for unions and employers’ organizations
Following the latest scandals of financial embezzlement in some organizations, the Australian government wants to plan ahead. It wants to set up an independent committee in charge of monitoring...
20 November 2013
Sweden: new recruitment contract for apprentices
In Sweden, apprenticeship isn’t working as well as the government would hope, according to the National Agency for Education (Skolverket). That’s why the government presented, on November 5, a...
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20 November 2013
Luxembourg: first results of the social election
On November 13, employees elected their representatives to the Chamber of Employees (CSL) and employee representation structures at company level. The first report shows that the union landscape...
19 November 2013
Germany: one in three workers in the auto, machine-tool and metal industry is allegedly agency workers or has a service provision contract, according to the IG-Metall
According to the IG-Metall, approximately 1 million of the 3.6 million working in the metal, auto, electronics and machine-tool industry are either agency workers or employed with a service...
19 November 2013
Italy: Eni and Ilva sign operational protocol on security at work in Tarente industrial area
The operational protocol signed on November 11 by Ilva, Eni, the Apulia region, the National Institute for Insurance against Industrial Accidents (Inail), the Ministry of Employment, the Ministry...
18 November 2013
Great Britain: government inquires into unions’ behavior within the framework of collective disputes
The Coalition government has established a formal inquiry into the tactics of unions in industrial disputes in the wake of the bitter Ineos-Unite battle at Grangemouth. The prime minister’s office...
18 November 2013
Spain: agreement in the dispute of cleaning and gardening services in Madrid
The agreement reached yesterday, November 17, puts an end to 13 days of strike in cleaning and gardening services in Madrid. It is considered as a victory by the trade unions, UGT (majority union...
18 November 2013
Germany: conservatives and social-democrats announce agreement on the introduction of a mandatory quota of women on boards
The Family Commission, one of the 16 commissions created by Angela Merkel’s conservative union (CDU/CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) within the framework of the negotiations for the...
18 November 2013
Denmark: “chain responsibility” in public sites at the center of the campaign for the municipal elections
The issue of social dumping could be decisive in the outcome of the municipal election of November 19. LO signed agreements with left-wing parties in several towns, who commit themselves, in...
18 November 2013
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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