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United States: historic victory for the UAW at Volkswagen in the South
On 19 April, the United Auto Workers (UAW) achieved a historic victory in the Southern United States by winning the membership of 5,500 employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee...
22 April 2024
Czech Republic: bill tabled to increase the ‘flexibility’ of labour relations
Czech labour minister Marian Jurečka has submitted to the chamber of deputies a series of amendments aimed at making the labour code "more flexible". The draft text makes it easier to take...
19 April 2024
Netherlands: Senate votes against minimum wage increase above regular indexation
In January, the government announced an additional statutory minimum wage increase of 1.2% with effect from 1 July 2024, in addition to the half-yearly indexation based on contractual wage trends...
19 April 2024
Chile: gradual transition to 40-hour week
From 26 April 2024, companies will have to adhere to the “40-hour law”. The working week will be reduced from 45 hours at present to 44 hours, before falling to 42 hours in April 2026...
18 April 2024
Michelin paying living wage worldwide as of end of 2023
The tyre manufacturing giant has been certified as a "Global Living Wage Employer", attesting to its worldwide implementation of a "living wage". Since the end of 2023, the company's 130,000...
18 April 2024
EU: declaration to strengthen Social Europe gets almost unanimous backing
At a high-level conference organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, on April 16 in La Hulpe, the Commission, member states and the social partners pledged to continue work on...
17 April 2024
Netherlands: compensation paid to companies hiring older employees to be scrapped
A bill to phase out so-called “labour costs compensation” (Loonkostenvoordelen, LKV) was approved by the Dutch Senate on 16 April. This financial benefit paid to employers when they...
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17 April 2024
Canada: Sustainable jobs Council to launch with social partners
On 15 April, Canada’s House of Commons approved on third reading a bill to support the creation of sustainable jobs for workers and growth in a low-carbon economy. The text, which still has...
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16 April 2024
France: joint negotiations on universal time savings account (CETU) and professional retraining
At the initiative of the U2P, the employers' organisation representing very small businesses and craft trades, the trade unions – CFDT, CGT, FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC – are once again meeting to...
16 April 2024
Portugal: new government aims to improve quality of employment
Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, the centre-right leader who won the parliamentary elections on 10 March, presented his roadmap to parliament on Thursday 11 April. The minority government's...
15 April 2024
Italy: generational renewal agreement penned at BNP Paribas subsidiary
The agreement signed on 9 April by BNL-BNP Paribas, the Italian subsidiary of the French banking group, and all the unions in the banking sector provides for 908 voluntary early retirements and...
15 April 2024
France: final adoption of text opening up right to accrue paid leave during stoppages due to non-occupational illness
Following on from the Senate, the French National Assembly adopted the government’s amendment on paid leave on 10 April. The text will bring French domestic legislation into line with EU law...
12 April 2024
Romania: minimum wage to rise by 12% on 1 July 2024
The minimum wage in Romania will rise from 3,300 leu (€664) to 3,700 leu (€744) from 1 July this year, an increase of 12.12%. The increase was set following discussions between the...
12 April 2024
France: Publicis regulates teleworking without rolling back this right
Publicis chief executive Arthur Sadoun signalled a return to the office for the communications group's staff in statements to the media in autumn last year, however the firm struck an agreement in...
11 April 2024
Netherlands: government seeks to simplify leave system to promote work-life balance
In a letter sent to the House of Representatives on 10 April, the government has proposed simplifying the various forms of leave available to help achieve a better work-life balance. In recent...
11 April 2024
France: negotiations on keeping older workers in employment fail
Negotiations initiated by the social partners at the request of the government to accompany the recent increase in the legal retirement age and to prevent burn-out have ended in failure. The...
10 April 2024
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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: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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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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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025