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Air France-KLM: EWC and management sign Social Rights and Ethics Charter along with a memorandum for its application
The management of Air France KLM and the EWC signed, on July 10, a new social rights and ethics charter, which it just released and which replaces that of 2008. The new text strengthens...
14 October 2013
Brazil: divisions in the debate over subcontracting remain
The outcome of a bill (PL 4330) to develop appeal to subcontracting in Brazilian companies is still uncertain after its vote in the Brazilian Parliament was once again postponed in the beginning...
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14 October 2013
Spain: VW Navarra strikes deal securing the site’s future
The management of Volkswagen Navarra, the UGT and CCOO unions and the CGC executives’ federation signed an agreement in principle for the drafting of the 8th collective agreement, which will serve...
14 October 2013
EU: Community institutions look into the possibility of European unemployment insurance
Even though it was completed a few months ago, the European Commission’s project on the creation of European unemployment insurance hasn’t been presented yet, nor included in the communication on...
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14 October 2013
Great Britain: the 5% club wants to make room for young people
Heavyweights in the British economy just created the 5% Club. This corporate group has laid down a challenge: employing 5% of young people within 5 years, in a country where unemployment affects...
14 October 2013
Great Britain: businesses that blacklisted “annoying” workers to set up a fund for the victims
Some of the biggest firms in the construction industry (Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinc) are to compensate workers who were...
11 October 2013
Spain: Bridgestone signs new collective agreement with difficulty
The management signed with the UGT and CCOO unions the 24th company agreement for 2013/15, which provides for a pay freeze and more flexibility. The minority unions (ELA-STV, SITB-USO and BUB)...
11 October 2013
Italy: Bridgestone and unions sign agreement saving Modugno site (Bari)
Retraining instead of closing. The agreement signed on September 30 between Bridgestone Italia Spa, the Femca Cisl, Filctem CGIL, Uiltec Uil and Failc-Confail unions, the unitary trade union...
11 October 2013
Romania: several multinationals show they are doing well by launching major recruitment programs
While restructurings announcements are still shaking western European social news, several multinationals set up in Romania in the auto and ICT industries announced vast recruitment campaigns at...
10 October 2013
Germany: real wages stagnate in the 2nd 2013 quarter after a slight step back in the 1st quarter
On Tuesday, October 8, the Federal Statistics Agency (Destatis) published the figures of the evolutions of actual wages in Germany in the 2nd 2013 quarter. Over the period, nominal wage increased...
10 October 2013
Great Britain: three in ten apprentices are not paid minimum wage (study)
29 percent of British apprentices are underpaid. This is the shocking revelation of a government survey on apprenticeship pay in 2012 published this month. Outraged unions are asking the Cameron...
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10 October 2013
France: unions and employers denounce the legislative imbroglio on work on Sunday but with different ideas of how to get out of it
Employers, unions, politicians, Ministers… everyone agrees that the French rule of Sunday rest with a lot of exceptions is no longer viable. Since two major home improvement stores (Castorama and...
10 October 2013
Germany: Daimler management imposes “social principles” to businesses with a service provision contract
The management of the German carmaker published, on Monday, October 7, the list of social and pay principles businesses willing to sign a service provision contract with the company will have to...
9 October 2013
Lithuania: government takes measures against unemployment
After the actions undertaken in the first 2013 quarter for young people (subsidies for the first recruitment), with the support of the European social fund, the government presented a new program...
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9 October 2013
EU: looking for a median path for quotas of women on boards
The debate is far from over on the issue of the draft directive aiming to impose a quota of 40 percent of women with non-executive positions on the boards of large European businesses listed on...
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9 October 2013
United States: UAW besieges Nissan in Mississippi
The leaders of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are enhancing their unionization campaign at Nissan’s Canton plant in Mississippi. They are trying to take their campaign to the global level, asking...
9 October 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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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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