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EU: “Erasmus +” guarantees youth employability
Erasmus +, also called Erasmus for all, should be launched in January 2014. Thus, the program for student mobility is reformed, and its budget enhanced to better answer the “Europe 2020,” the new...
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10 July 2013
Brazil: general strike on July 11 to support popular demonstrations
Large unions announced the paralysis of the country this coming Thursday, July 11. In line with the citizen mobilizations organized in recent weeks, the workers’ confederations are calling for...
10 July 2013
EU: Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopts resolution on transnational agreements
On June 20, the Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs adopted the report presented by Thomas Händel from the Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left...
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9 July 2013
France: national cross-industry agreement to improve the quality of life at work and professional equality
Three of the five French organizations (CFDT, CFE-CGC and CFTC) agreed to sign the agreement “towards a policy improving the quality of life at work and professional equality,” reached on June 19...
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9 July 2013
EU: European Commission consults social partners on undeclared work
On July 4, the Commission opened the consultation of the social partners on enhancing EU cooperation between the Member States in the prevention and deterrence of undeclared work. The European...
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9 July 2013
Great Britain: government launches national consultation promoting indirect employee ownership
As announced with the 2013 budget, the British government has recently launched a national consultation on its plan to provide £50 million annually from 2014-15 to support the development of...
9 July 2013
Germany: real wages are down as the “pay gap” gets wider
On July 5, Destatis, the Federal Statistics Agency published a report on the evolution of pay in Germany between 2007 and 2012 and over the first 2013 quarter. Unlike what several banking analysts...
9 July 2013
Austria: genuine improvement to the conditions of combined pay to fight unemployment
With the moderate but constant rise in unemployment, the Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, Rudolf Hundstorfer, announced that the combined pay system introduced in 2009 – a subsidized...
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9 July 2013
Italy: annual report of the Commission monitoring application of the strike act in essential public services
The Commission monitoring application of the strike act in essential public services issued its 2012 activity report. Set up by Act No. 145/1990, this “independent administration” is made up of 8...
8 July 2013
Austria: Parliament introduces “transitional retirement” for hard work in construction industry
In its last session before the summer, the Austrian Parliament voted to extend early retirement for hard work, on January 1, 2015, to construction workers only. Employees may retire when they...
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8 July 2013
Great Britain: after a peak in 2011, strike statistics for 2012 are at their lowest
In 2012, just 248,800 working days were not worked from 131 strikes, with 63 strikes in the public sector compared with 68 in the private sector, compared with 1,389,700 days not worked in 2011...
7 July 2013
Belgium: historical agreement between the social partners to harmonize blue-collar and white-collar workers’ statuses
After debating for 27 years, the social partners finally reached an agreement in the afternoon on July 5 on the sensitive issue of the single status for blue-collar and white-collar workers. It...
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7 July 2013
EU: new sectoral social dialogue committee for the port sector
On June 19, the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the port industry was formally launched in Brussels. This sector employs 1.5 million people without taking account of indirect jobs...
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5 July 2013
Suez Environnement: new agreement sets up European Works Council
The approximately 70,000 European employees of Suez Environnement will no longer be represented by GDF Suez’s EWC on July 23. Following from its deconsolidation, the group operating in the field...
5 July 2013
Norway: outcome of bargaining in the oil industry
Negotiations are over between the Norsk Olje og Gass employers’ organization (oil and gas businesses) and the trade unions – SAFE (energy), Inustri Energi (energy industry) and Lederne (Norwegian...
5 July 2013
Renault: interview of Tristan Lormeau, Director Resources and Skills at Renault Group, on the international framework agreement signed by the French carmaker
On July 2, Renault, IndustriAll Global Union and the Global Group Council signed an international framework agreement on social, societal and environmental responsibility. Tristan Lormeau is...
4 July 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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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...
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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