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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
Great Britain: Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs invites employees to give up their rights in exchange for free shares
George Osborne wants employees to "become owners" of their company. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to foster a new type of industrial relations where employees give up part of their...
8 October 2012
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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EU: insurance sector social partners commit to addressing violence and harassment at work
The news. The trade union UNI Europa Finance and the employers’ federations Insurance Europe, Amice and Bipar signed an addendum to their 2022 joint declaration on diversity and inclusion on...
18 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026