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Denmark: Labor Minister wanted to improve the psychological environment at work
Earlier this month, Labor Minister Mette Frederiksen, determined to see the number of workers affected by violence at work drop, presented three initiatives aiming to improve the psychological...
27 August 2012
Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore
Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...
27 August 2012
Italy: operations at Ilva Tarente will resume if it gets up to date
The two ordinances, signed on July 26 by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Tarente Court, Patrizia Todisco, within the framework of the investigation on the “environmental disaster...
27 August 2012
Portugal: labor cost 10 percent higher than the average in the Euro zone
Portuguese competitiveness is slowly going up, the Central Bank of Portugal having published slightly decreasing unitary labor costs. However, it is still higher than the average in the rest of...
27 August 2012
France: PSA Sevelnord agreement revives debate on competitiveness agreements
On July 12, PSA Peugeot Citroën announced 8,000 job cuts across the country and the closing of the Aulnay site (Seine-Saint-Denis), which employs 3,000 people. For the Sevelnord plant in Hordain...
24 August 2012
Germany: 9,300 Opel staff on short-time working
6 percent net loss of income. What a sad birthday! On the brand’s 150th birthday – Opel was created on August 23, 1862 –, the company’s management announced, with unions’ consent, that it was...
24 August 2012
Great Britain: 2011 strike statistics released
The government has published its annual statistical analysis of strike activity for 2011, showing that nearly 1.4 million days were not worked as a result of 149 strikes involving 1.53m workers...
23 August 2012
Italy: Manpower’s new group agreement improves work-life balance
Saying that unions had shown “true realism and responsibility” in the context of “deep” crisis in the sector – which has also affected American temporary work giants –, Cristian Sesena, Filcams...
23 August 2012
Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices
Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...
23 August 2012
Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world
The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...
23 August 2012
United States: bitter conflict end for Caterpillar
Caterpillar, the American giant, and the leaders of the IAM union have just signed a 6-year pay deal which is going to leave the union a bitter aftertaste. This agreement covers 780 workers at...
21 August 2012
Portugal: crisis brings working time up to 41 hours a week
In Portugal, the number of people working in average 41 hours a week has increased since the end of 2011. According to an employment survey carried out by the National Statistics Institute (INE)...
20 August 2012
Great Britain: latest union membership figures released
In 2011, there were 172 unions with 7.26m members, of which fourteen unions with more than 100,000 members accounted for 86% of all membership. This represented a decline from 7.32m the previous...
20 August 2012
Hewlett Packard: employee representatives vote the termination of the anticipation agreement establishing the EWC
CFE-CGC, the French union organization, announced in a press release published on July 26 that 95 percent of the EWC members of the computing group had decided to terminate the agreement...
20 August 2012
Great Britain: the annual report of the ACAS conciliation and mediation service shows an increase in cases of pre-employment tribunal claims
The pre-Employment Tribunal claims are open to both employers and employees to use to avoid lengthy and costly employment tribunals which have dramatically increased over the last ten years and...
20 August 2012
Siemens: new international framework agreement
In that agreement Siemens commits itself to fundamental workers’ rights such as equal opportunity and freedom of association and collective bargaining. The Agreement refers to the fundamental...
19 August 2012
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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...
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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...
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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
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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