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Sweden: tracks to reform the layoff act (LAS)
3 ways to make the law more flexible. The first part of the report evaluates the activity of employment tribunals and the way disputes are handled. It seems that they are usually dealt with...
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15 October 2012
Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present
120 female employees from Brazil, Philippines, Spain and Venezuela are currently taking part in “Women and leadership”. They share a common feature. All of them are executives or pre- executives...
15 October 2012
Great Britain: report on pay deals in the British auto industry
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Bentley Motors, Honda, Ford and BMW - 5 pay negotiations, 5 different situations. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and...
15 October 2012
EU: Commission moves to develop innovative manufacturing sectors
Funding. The communication published last Wednesday explains that, “At a time when financial problems persist, Europe needs its real economy more than ever to underpin the recovery of economic...
12 October 2012
Germany: manufacturing social partners ask the government reintroduce short-time working
The economic slowdown in Germany is becoming important enough that the sector's social partners are asking the government to quickly reintroduce short-time working measures. Between August and...
12 October 2012
Great Britain: government moves to free employers from liability for third-party harassment
In May, the British government said that this provision of the Equality Act, voted two years ago (see our dispatch No. 100592), was “impractical” and prepared the ground by launching a...
11 October 2012
Great Britain: strikes are spreading in transportation and logistics
Very few companies now distribute their own goods and products through their own fleet of vehicles. Instead, these services are sub-contracted out to dedicated providers after a process of...
11 October 2012
United States: Walmart faces multiple strikes and the threat of a strike on Black Friday
“Workers from stores throughout the Dallas-area (…) from stores in Miami, the DC-area, Sacramento, Southern California and the Bay-area are (…) walking off the job” announced, on October 10...
11 October 2012
Sweden: new manufacturing employers’ organization
On September 19, employers in the manufacturing industry announced the creation of a new employers' organization, "industriarbetsgivarna" (meaning manufacturing employers), presenting itself as an...
10 October 2012
Italy: Eni signs an agreement with the social partners and the Basilicate region for the “site convention” of the peninsula’s key oil extraction center
Promoting initiatives in the sector. Eni commits itself to carry on investing in the region, notably by doing the 5th gas processing station at the Centro Olio Val d’Agri (COVA) center, and 9...
Denmark: job rotation, a tool to integrate jobseekers on the labor market
Job rotation, a system which allows businesses to recruit jobseekers to replace employees on training, is boosting the reinstatement of 8 in 10 jobseekers who take part, according to a study...
10 October 2012
United States: Bombardier aircraft manufacturer on strike
Since October 8, over 800 employees have been on strike at Bombardier, the American subsidiary of the Canadian aircraft manufacturer, in Wichita, Kansas. This strike is the result of failed pay...
10 October 2012
Austria: 190,000 heating engineers, assembly operators and mechatronics engineers get an average 3.2 percent increase
The social partners in the "Metallgewerbe" industry, which represents 43,000 SMEs and nearly 190,000 employees (heating engineers, assembly operators, mechatronics engineers...) signed a wage...
10 October 2012
Sweden: new bill on temporary work and amendment of the Posting Act to improve equal treatment for workers leased by a foreign agency
A law protecting temporary workers. “The temporary industry is a major component of the Swedish labor market. The bill increases security for agency workers while allowing the sector’s...
9 October 2012
EU: Council of Ministers adopts position on the protection of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields
On October 4, the Employment and Social Policy Council adopted a general approach amending Directive 2004/40 on the protection of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields. The Council's...
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9 October 2012
EU: how is employee participation doing at European level?
Udo Rehfelt. I think it would be useful to remind that, as this special issue points out, these three forms of employee participation have a common ideational and historical link – the European...
8 October 2012
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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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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
19 December 2025
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
15 December 2025