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Deutsche Bahn: social partners negotiate permanent profit-sharing system for all employees
Deutsche Bahn’s central WC confirmed to Planet Labor that the internal negotiations with representatives from the management, the central WC and the EWC had recently opened to come up with a...
27 June 2013
Italy: “simpler” occupational health and safety obligations in the decree-law on “emergency provisions to revive the economy”
Decree-law 69 on emergency provisions to revive the economy “simplifies” employers’ obligations provided for in Act 81/2008 on health and safety at work. But unions say they are substantial...
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26 June 2013
Air France/KLM: new European agreement regarding the outstation and commercial organization in Europe
Air France/KLM management and EWC signed, on June 12, 2013, a framework agreement regarding the outstation and commercial organization in Europe (except France and the Netherlands). Almost...
26 June 2013
Poland: recent changes in labour law extend maternity leave and introduce parental leave
On 17 June 2013 the law changing Labour Code (and a few other laws) entered into force; the law was adopted by the Parliament on 28 May 2013. The main goal of the introduced changes is to...
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25 June 2013
Austria: GPA-djp private workers’ union wants to limit ‘all-in’ contracts
The GPA-djp has declared war on the exponential increase in ‘all-in’ labor contracts whereby employees are paid the same price regardless of the time they spend working. At a press conference on...
25 June 2013
Spain: national engineering and technical studies collective agreement renewed
On June 14, the FeS-UGT and Comfia-CCOO majority unions and the Tecniberia employers’ organization signed the sector’s 17th collective agreement. It provides for a 0.8 percent wage increase in...
25 June 2013
Great Britain: CWU secures employment conditions for employees at Telefonica o2 call centres outsourced to Capita
After an intense period of negotiations and under the threat of a possible strike, Telefonica o2 has agreed to concede to a number of the demands of the CWU communications workers’ union over the...
24 June 2013
Italy: complete success for the first large unitary demonstration organized by the three union confederations
For the first time in ten years and after a long period of separate agreements, the CGIL, Cisl and Uil union organizations took to the capital’s streets together with a unitary platform of demands...
24 June 2013
Germany: not enough training or jobs created in aviation, IG-Metall says
During the Paris Air Show, the IG-Metall union published an analysis of the employment situation in the German aeronautics industry. It is based on a “survey” carried out between March 2012 and...
24 June 2013
Spain: in 2012, nearly one third of large businesses allegedly used internal flexibility to avoid layoffs
Encouraging internal labor flexibility has been one of the primary objectives of the latest labor reform. A year after the reform came into force, the Ministry of Employment and Social Security...
24 June 2013
France: employment and training at the center of the government’s social roadmap
As expected, the second Social Conference, organized in Paris on June 20-21, was mostly a ‘warm-up lap’ for the government and the social partners before a series of negotiations on thorny issues...
24 June 2013
Germany: 24-month pay deal in industrial cleaning
Yesterday, Thursday, June 20, the social partners in the industrial cleaning sector – the IG BAU construction union and the National Guild Association of the Building-Cleaning Trade (BIV) –...
21 June 2013
Enel: new global framework agreement on fundamental social rights and establishment of a global works council
On June 14, Enel Group and IndustriAll Global Union, Public Services International (PSI) and the Filctem-CGIL, Flaei-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil Italian unions signed a global framework agreement. In it...
20 June 2013
EU: ECJ defines conditions for reviews of employees on parental leave whose position is removed
In a decree rendered today, June 20, the Luxembourg judges decided that, under Community law, when preparing the employee reviews within the framework of the cancelation of positions on economic...
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20 June 2013
Great Britain: Royal Mail employees fight the government’s plans to sell the public company
Members of the CWU communications union have voted in a ballot by 92% on a 74% turnout to oppose the privatisation of Royal Mail through a boycott of competitors’ mail as well as through...
20 June 2013
Spanish businesses are getting into 2.0 recruitment methods
Recruitment 2.0 has not been rapidly embraced by firms in Spain, a relatively recent phenomenon, but they are starting to (Ref. 130413)
20 June 2013
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...