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Italy: Eni and unions sign agreement to ‘help’ nearly 1,000 workers retire and hire 300 young people
Eni and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions signed an agreement to ‘help’ about 1,000 workers through retirement while recruiting 300 young graduates and ‘stabilizing’ temporary...
14 June 2013
United States: AFL-CIO uses participatory democracy to prepare its 2013 Convention
Weaker than ever, the American union movement needs to get young people and minorities to join while defending its position in sectors where it is still present. This difficult task will be the...
13 June 2013
Denmark: boosting the fight against social dumping
The Parliament recently adopted a reform of the Register of Foreign Service Providers, with which the labor inspectorate is able to sanction businesses that break the law. The Ministry of Finance...
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13 June 2013
France: Claire Tourmieux, partner at the Flichy Grangé law firm, explains the labor market reform
After the law on secure employment is adopted, in the next few days, several labor law aspects will be completely different. Particularly, the mass layoff procedure will be completely reshuffled...
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13 June 2013
Germany: new setback for the CGB Christian union
Seized by the majority services union, Verdi, the Federal Labor Court of Erfurt issued an appeals judgment, on June 11, stating that the small health union, Medsonet, affiliated with the Christian...
12 June 2013
EU: new action plan to boost the steel industry
11 years after the Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel Community expired, the European Commission presented, this Tuesday, its new action plan for the European steel industry. The...
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12 June 2013
Great Britain: major ruling on collective redundancies
Employment lawyers have widely hailed a legal decision over redundancies at the former Woolworth retailer as a landmark ruling. In the case of the shopworkers’ union, USDAW v. WW Realisation 1 Ltd...
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12 June 2013
Germany: one of the biggest low-wage sectors in Europe
In 2010, 22.2 percent of German employees received a low income. Germany has the 7th biggest low-wage sector in the EU. This is the result of a new study released on June 10 by the WSI Institute...
11 June 2013
Great Britain: the use of ‘Section 188’ to impose less advantageous changes upon employees’ working conditions continues
It seems that the use of ‘Section 188’ is growing, even in the private sector. While it used to be more common in the public and non-market sectors, this provision allowing employers to amend...
11 June 2013
EON SE: commentary of the agreement on employee participation in the new European company
On October 16, 2012, EON SE signed the agreement on employee participation. On November 15, 2012, the company officially became a European company and the SE’s EWC met for the first time in...
11 June 2013
Lafarge: group management, EWC and EFBWW European federation sign declaration on wellbeing at work
On May 23, the management of Lafarge Group, its EWC and the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW) signed a declaration on wellbeing at work. This declaration comes on top of the...
10 June 2013
Spain: textile/clothing collective agreements renewed in spite of disagreements among employers
The CIE employers’ organization and the Fiteqa-CCOO and FITAG-UGT unions signed the new collective agreement for the textile industry on June 5. Employers in the fashioning and weaving industry...
10 June 2013
Germany: 5.4 percent wage increase over 24 months in the insurance industry
Insurance social partners reached, on the night of June 7, a deal for a 5.4 percent wage increase divided in two over 24 months. The agreement covers about 95 percent of the sector’s employees...
10 June 2013
Belgium: government puts social partners in charge of coming up with the single status for blue- and white-collar workers
About 30 days before the deadline set by the Constitutional Court to get rid of the differences between blue-collar and white-collar workers, the government failed to agree, during the Council of...
10 June 2013
Great Britain: government publishes regulations reforming employment tribunals procedures
The British government has published the latest regulations on employment tribunals procedures, which was one of the expected reforms for 2013. Pointing to mediation, the new regulations should...
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7 June 2013
Denmark: government and social partners want to reform vocational education
The agreement signed on June 4 by the government and most political parties, reforming “vocational academies,” is in line with the government’s objective of improving the vocational education...
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7 June 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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Italy: collective agreement for rubber and plastics sector focuses on new skills
A month ahead of schedule, the Federazione Gomma Plastica employers' organisation and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions have renewed the collective agreement for the rubber and...
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Italy: banking group Intesa Sanpaolo sharpens focus on quality of life at work
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