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EU: the citizens’ initiative on the right to water as a human right about to come to a close
The first European citizens’ initiative (a new participative democracy tool that started in Europe on April 1, 2012) is about to come to an end and is about Water. It aims to alter the priorities...
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24 July 2013
Italy: Eni signs unitary agreement with unions to revive its Gela refinery in Sicily
On July 19, Eni signed, with the RSUs and the local structures of the Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions, an agreement for the restructuring of its Gela refinery, imposed by the...
24 July 2013
Corporate practices: Sweco, or how to attract and retain female engineers
Sweco, a group operating in engineering, environmental technology and architecture, is also the world leader in particle separation and size reduction. It employs around 7,400 people, 70 percent...
23 July 2013
Novartis: commentary of the new EWC (Euroforum) agreement
Since February 1, Novartis’ European Works Council, called Euroforum, has been ruled by a new agreement that adds to the structures’ operating rules the key novelties of the 2009/38 recast...
23 July 2013
Italy: State and businesses mobilized to find solutions to the esodati crisis brought about by the Monti administration’s pension reform
Side effect to the 2011 pension reform, “esodati” are workers reaching the end of their carrier who have signed voluntary leave agreements during a restructuring or reorganization in their company...
23 July 2013
Spain: recent trends in corporate volunteering
Corporate volunteering is not new. Traditionally, it has been conceived as a Corporate Social Responsibility practice. However, businesses are progressively integrating employee community...
22 July 2013
United States: second time National Labor Relations Board is saved in a year and a half
After the NLRB’s appointments were cancelled since the American Senate didn’t expressly give its consent and with the Republican Representatives constantly blocking the issue, the Federal agency...
22 July 2013
Great Britain: government outlines plan on the transparency of lobbies, which should also shed light on Labour funding by unions
The Coalition government has outlined its plans for a statutory register of lobbyists, saying it would boost public confidence about outside influence on the process of political decision-making...
19 July 2013
Belgium: Belgian ‘wage disability’ still causes divisions
On July 15, the select Ministerial Committee received a report on the pay gap written – following its own request – by a group of experts (national bank, planning office, central economic council...
19 July 2013
EU: ECJ to determine whether French law excluding integration contracts from the calculation of the staffing limits for employee representation is in keeping with Community law
The French Supreme Court asked the ECJ about the compliance with Community law of information and consultation in the French Labor Code (Article L. 1111-3), which excluded from a company’s...
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18 July 2013
Sweden: social dumping with new operators at the heart of 2013 negotiations in transportation
Negotiations in the rail and bus transport industries were punctuated by social movements. Wage increases were defined at 6.8 percent over three years, in line with most other sectors, but the...
18 July 2013
Belgium: new law brings flexibility to overtime system
On July 17, the House of Lords adopted the bill to modernize labor, which notably brings flexibility to the overtime system. The Senate could very well decide not to look at the bill, so this...
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18 July 2013
Spain: flexibility enters collective agreements
Since 2010, when the first major labor market reform came into force, Spain has been implementing successive reforms aiming to make the labor market more flexible. Introducing internal...
17 July 2013
Deutsche Bahn introduces new procedure to recruit young people on their profile and not their degrees
To compensate the number of departures each year – about 8,000 for a total of 300,000 people – Deutsche Bahn, the German rail company, has been adopting more and more initiative to recruit as many...
17 July 2013
Belgium: new law allowing ‘trial temping’ before hiring workers and supervising successive daily employment contracts
The law amending the Temporary Work Act, permanently adopted on June 26, was published in the Moniteur today, July 16. It enforces the agreement negotiated by the temporary social partners, which...
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16 July 2013
United States: 1.3 million food workers should join the AFL-CIO next month
With union membership globally down, the emblematic United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which organized the strikes that paralyzed food warehouses in California and the leader...
16 July 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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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...
5 November 2025
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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
On Thursday 13 November, Germany's Bundestag passed a bill to modernise and digitalise the country’s system for tackling undeclared work and financial crime. In future, the relevant department at...
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...
13 November 2025