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Lithuania: new Lithuanian Federation of Manufacturing Unions
Long negotiations for this merger. During the negotiations before the official decision, the leaders of the Lithuanian Chemical Industrial Workers Trade Union Federation (Lietuvos chemijos...
18 July 2012
G4S : EWC agreement revised
Transnationality. The revised Agreement contains new definitions of information/consultation which reflect some of the recent changes in the European legislation and confirms the nature of the...
17 July 2012
Spain: public employees down in the street against new austerity measures
Spontaneous gatherings. These spontaneous gatherings, rather unusual in Spain, started on Friday, July 13, as soon as the reform passed. At the same time, a group of employees working at Moncloa...
17 July 2012
Estonia: collective agreements have a hard time proving they are efficient
After two studies written in 2010 and X-raying the country's social relations, the Estonian Minister of Social Affairs presented, on June 11, 2012, a new, shorter study entitled "The Role of...
16 July 2012
Italy: Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and rail CCN renewed
The final signature should be by July 20 in order to get a following from the association of rail subcontractors, Fise-Uniferr, from Legacoop-Servizi and from Confcooperative-Federlavoro. Unions...
13 July 2012
Germany: Deutsche Bahn and Federal Employment Agency sign national recruitment agreement
The DB’s personnel management is currently facing two challenges: demographic ageing (many people retiring) and the company’s international growth. At the end of 2011, DB CEO Rüdiger Grube...
13 July 2012
Ireland: home stretch for the reform of labor institutions
Sent to Parliament for consultation last week, the bill proposes merging the five existing institutions: the Employment Tribunal (an independent tripartite body in charge of conciliating...
12 July 2012
Spain: commentary of the law reforming the labor market adopted on June 28
The Law 3/2012 introduces quite a number of small amendments compared with the decree adopted in February (for the detailed commentary of the text, see our dispatch No. 120125), most of them of a...
12 July 2012
Spain: unions call for demonstration against new austerity package
New austerity package. The managing committees of the two union federations met on the 11th to analyze the new adaptation program the government presented in Parliament that same morning. The...
12 July 2012
Great Britain: Frances O’Grady, expert in union campaigning, will become the new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress in January 2013
Before joining the TUC in 1994, O’Grady worked for the TGWU union (now part of Unite) from 1989 where she worked on successful campaigns to stop the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and...
11 July 2012
Austria: 3.45 percent average wage increase in tourism and the hotel business
3.45 percent average increase. It took the social partners in the Austrian tourism industry, which employs 200,000 people, five meetings before they could agree on a pay agreement on Tuesday...
11 July 2012
France: busy social program for the new government
Form and content. Regarding form, the social conference which took place in Paris on July 9-10 at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Conseil économique, social et environnemental...
11 July 2012
Sweden: government proposes bill limiting the number of fixed-term contracts to comply with Community provisions
The main goal of this bill is to respond to a criticism expressed by the European Commission after the TCO union filed a complaint in March 2010. Indeed, Swedish regulations on temporary...
10 July 2012
BNP Paribas: new European agreement on employment management
This
agreement “sets out the rules and processes to be observed by BNP Paribas Group
companies in Europe with regard to:
10 July 2012
Great Britain: government to encourage employee ownership
After it received the Nuttall report, the government issued a call for evidence on employee ownership. It also announced the creation of a special institute and of a new guide for businesses...
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10 July 2012
Belgium: social partners agree to reform time credit
Time credit for no motive. In Belgium, time credit allows suspending, totally or temporarily, one’s labor contract. It can be combined with other leaves, such as parental leave or a leave to...
10 July 2012
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EU: right and far right join forces in parliament to dismantle sustainability due diligence
On 13 November, the European Parliament approved the report by EPP MEP Jörgen Warborn on the proposed omnibus directive, clearing the way for trilogue negotiations. Backed by the far right, the...
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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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Germany: EU pay transparency directive to force companies to ‘get tough’
Germany introduced a pay transparency law in 2017, meaning companies are already somewhat familiar with the issue. However, the broader scope and stricter requirements of the EU directive, the...
24 October 2025
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EU: omnibus bill stalls in parliament
On 22 October, members of the European Parliament narrowly voted against a negotiating mandate that would have opened trilogue talks on the omnibus directive, which seeks to dilute the corporate...
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23 October 2025
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France: cabinet adopts suspension of pension reform
On 23 October, the French Council of Ministers approved an amendment to the social security financing bill (PLFSS), confirming the suspension of the 2023 pension reform until 2028. This measure...
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