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Great Britain: apprenticeship boom
The Cameron administration’s ‘attraction operation’ to bring apprenticeship back to the front of the stage seems to be working. 858,900 people chose this path in 2012/13, according to the latest...
23 October 2013
Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions call for 4-hour national strike against Stability Act
After the 24-hour strike organized by the independent unions, it is now the three big Italian union confederations’ turn to call for a strike against the planned Stability Act. But their strike...
23 October 2013
Germany: for the first time, employers and unions negotiate minimum wage in the meat industry
It’s a first. On Tuesday, October 22, the German Food Industry Association (VDEW) and the Food, Beverages and Catering union (NGG) opened talks to adopt a collective agreement introducing, for...
23 October 2013
Great Britain: unions and management outdo each other in the conflict between Ineos and Unite at the Grangemouth plant, Scotland
A long running dispute over an inquiry into alleged misuse of company facilities (email) by a Unite-affiliated worker at the Ineos oil and petro-chemical processing plant in Grangemouth, Scotland...
22 October 2013
France: PSA Peugeot Citroën signs competitiveness agreement
The FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC unions officially announced their intention to sign the agreement on the “new social contract” negotiated with the carmaker’s management. This deal, which the company...
22 October 2013
EU: historical free trade agreement with Canada, a prelude to trade agreements with the US, Japan and China
On Friday, October 18, the European Union and Canada signed a major free-trade agreement, the first of this kind between the EU and another G8 country. This “Comprehensive Economic and Trade...
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22 October 2013
Sweden: Finansförbundet, the banking and finance union, terminates the sector’s collective agreement
Finansförbundet, the banking and finance workers’ union, had been thinking about it for a while. It made the decision and announced it on September 30, 2013: the union, which represents 29,000...
22 October 2013
Italy: organizers of the “two day” mobilization of independent unions against austerity say it was a “complete success”
Called by the independent unions (USB, Confederazione Cobas, Or.s.a. Scuola Università e Ricerca, Sindacato Siae, Cub, Usi and Unicobas), the general 24-hour strike against austerity policies...
22 October 2013
Spain: Constitutional Court recognizes firms’ right to monitor employees’ emails
Controlling an employee’s electronic correspondence does not breach his/her right to privacy. With this ruling, the Constitutional Court is wandering from the existing jurisprudence, which...
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21 October 2013
EU: European social partners in European shipbuilding and ship maintenance issue joint statement on social standards in the sector
On October 14, the social partners in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the shipbuilding and ship maintenance industry adopted a joint statement on social standards. (Ref. ...
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21 October 2013
Germany: economic research institutes warn that introducing universal minimum wage would have subversive effects
While the CDU/CSU conservative party and SPD social-democratic party announced, on October 17 after intense preliminary discussions, their will to officially launch, on October 23, talks on the...
21 October 2013
China: “gray income” threateningly increasing
In China, “gray income” – which by definition can’t be found in national statistics – mostly reflects practices related to bribery and abuse of power. A recent study shows its scope: it allegedly...
18 October 2013
Brazil: 2012 annual report on employment and formal economy published
On Friday, October 11, the Ministry of Labor published its 2012 social information report (Rais), one of the “biggest sources of information on Brazil’s formal labor market.” This article...
18 October 2013
Portugal: renewed social tension with the announcement of the 2014 austerity budget
The CGTP is organizing a big day of action on Saturday, October 19 against the 2014 Finance Bill. The largest union confederation in Portugal will organize a go-slow operation on the “25 abril...
18 October 2013
Great Britain: recruiters worried about training following two damning reports
British training is blamed with two surveys underlining the extremely weak skills level, especially among young people. This is alarming for businesses who are now hiring abroad to make up for...
18 October 2013
Italy: with its 2014 “stability bill,” the government kicks off the income tax cut but the social partners say it’s not enough
On September 15, the Council of Ministers approved two finance bills 2014-16. Lowering the total fiscal burden from 44.3 down to 43.4 percent in 2016, the government claims that its budget act...
17 October 2013
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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...
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14 October 2025
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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...
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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
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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...
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