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France: Saint-Gobain signs new agreement on diversity
Sensitive urban zones. This first axis developed in the agreement is the “commitment to an active policy supporting the integration, in the Group’s undertakings, and maintaining ailing profiles...
10 September 2012
Great Britain: the pay gap between white workers and ethnic minorities is widening
A gap that has more than doubled. Research by Dr Malcolm Brynin and Dr Ayse Güveli, from the University of Essex published, in the last issue of the British Sociological Association’s journal a...
6 September 2012
Austria: the Austrian post signs a company agreement on a new working time scheme
Taking actual working hours into account. After 10 months negotiating and 30 meetings, the management of the Austrian post, employee representatives and representatives from the post and telecom...
6 September 2012
Netherlands: FNV union organizes estates general to end its divisions
The Dutch Labor Federation (FNV), the country’s key union, decided to organize a “Parliament” between in 19 affiliates to do a democratic reform and settle internal differences on the pension...
6 September 2012
Denmark: government takes measures to better prevent mental and physical wear-out
To
provide workers with a “good, long life at work,” the government wants to help
businesses improve prevention and make sure that “motivated employees” from
certain categories (seniors, sick...
5 September 2012
Germany: Federal Labor Court adjusts the payment of corporate supplementary pension to new statutory retirement age
Synchronizing company and statutory retirement. “As a rule, the judges want
sync between statutory and company pensions” Inken Gallner, spokeswoman for the
Federal Labor Court, said about the...
5 September 2012
Greece: Troika asks government to liberalize the labor market faster
Working time. The Greek and British press have reported letters sent last week
to the Ministries of Finance and of Labor asking to bring the work week up to 6
days across the economy to boost...
5 September 2012
Italy: tough autumn for the Italian labor market
Metal and steel. From Alcoa to Sardinia, where about 1,000 direct and indirect
workers could lose their job at Fincantieri, which is planning to cut 1,300
jobs out of 9,000 across the country...
5 September 2012
Great Britain: “zero hour” contracts growing and spreading in various industries
Previously, zero hour contracts have been predominantly used in the service sector and on the low-paid fringes of the health service such as contract provision of cleaning, security and meals...
5 September 2012
EU: new online tool against health and safety risks for workers in leather and tanning industry
Test. Funded by the European Commission, the app is hosted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (OSHA), based in Bilbao. Since 2010, it has been helping EU Member States and...
5 September 2012
Germany: Deutsche Bahn to introduce new part-time apprenticeship for single parents
1.6m single parents. “These days, vocational training must be compatible with raising a kid” explained DB Personnel Director Ulrich Weber when launching “2012, the apprenticeship year” on...
5 September 2012
EU: coming proposal to introduce quotas for women on boards
According to the Financial Times, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding should propose, in October, binding rules to increase the number of women on the boards of large and medium-sized...
4 September 2012
Great Britain: this summer, cleaning workers scored several points on pay
eaning workers in London over the summer could herald a significant change in the balance of power in the sector. For the last few years, the campaigns of the London Citizens group, made of up of...
3 September 2012
Portugal: more strikes in oil, energy and transportation
The federation of heavy industry and oil unions, Fiequimetal, issued a three-day strike notice for September 17, 18 and 19, 2012. It is calling for wage increases and protesting against the new...
3 September 2012
Safran: European negotiations to integrate young people in the company
The international high tech supplier and the European manufacturing federations, IndustriALL European Trade Union, should meet on September 20 to negotiate a European agreement on the integration...
2 September 2012
Italy: new interconfederal agreement gives union headquarters the authority to validate the authenticity of consensual resignations and terminations
Confindustria, the employers' organization, and the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions signed, on August 3, an agreement allowing unions to confirm the authenticity of resignations, a procedure introduced...
31 August 2012
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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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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025
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France: Adecco steps up commitment to temporary workers with disabilities
On 9 September, temporary work agency Adecco France and representative trade unions signed a new open-ended agreement to support the recruitment and retention of temporary workers with...
18 November 2025