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Great Britain: apprenticeship will have to last at least 12 months
Last December, Hayes announced that apprenticeship for all 16-18 year-olds would have to last 12 months. On April 1, he announced that this requirement would also affect those aged 19 and over...
4 April 2012
Sweden: trade employers’ organization signed new wage agreement with supervisory staff representatives but is facing a call for strike for employees
Satisfactory agreements for managers and graduates. The new wage agreement signed between Svensk Handel and the Unionen and Akademikerförbunden union organizations applies to executives, store...
4 April 2012
Germany: the German army and businesses exchange staff more and more often
On March 14, at the Köln-Wahn barracks, Cassidian and the Luftwaffe signed a cooperation agreement. It applies the advice contained in the directive released on February 1 by the German Ministry...
3 April 2012
EU: new directive on electromagnetic fields by October 31, 2013
Application moratorium. The European Commission suggested extending the moratorium for the application of Directive 2004/40 on the protection of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields to April...
2 April 2012
Austria: 3.5 percent wage increase in banking
On April 1, the wages of the 80,000 banking employees went up by 3.5 percent in average. This is the result of the wage agreement signed between the GPA-djp union (private sector employees) and...
2 April 2012
Germany: 6.3 percent increase for public workers to influence other sectoral negotiations
Who can beat 6.3 percent? It took 40 successive hours of negotiations for Frank Bsirske, leader of the Verdi union, the representatives of civil service employers, the Federal Minister of the...
2 April 2012
International: overview of global union alliances
“United stand.” A direct consequence of globalization, union action transcends borders in the form of international union alliances. The last to date, the Ikea Global Union Alliance...
2 April 2012
Poland: toward retirement age at 67
A political agreement on the principle of retirement at 67. On March 29, the leaders of two political parties – Donald Tusk for PO and Waldemar Pawlak, former Minister of Economic Affairs, for...
2 April 2012
Germany: unions’ globalization strategy helped by Bob King, leader of the American auto workers’ union, joining Opel’s board
of the American United Auto Workers (UAW), will become a full member of the supervisory board of Adam Opel GmbH. Sources tell Planet Labor that both General Motors and the German IG-Metall union...
2 April 2012
Germany: 10,000 employees fired by Schlecker causes political and ideological turmoil beyond the trade industry
10,000 compulsory redundancies. Receiver Arndt Geiwitz, who took in his hands the fate of Schlecker, which announced that it was closing 2,200 stores after the judicial settlement, postponed, in...
30 March 2012
United States: German personalities campaign against T-Mobile USA, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary, accused of anti-union practices
On Wednesday, March 28, a group of German academics, lawyers, and union and political representatives published, in the New York Times, an open letter to “T-Mobile USA and other US subsidiaries of...
30 March 2012
Spain: government maintains reforms, social unrest grows
Demonstrations took place in several towns across the country with the catchphrase: “Quieren acabar con todo” – they want to end it all. The El Pais daily says 170,000 marched through Madrid...
30 March 2012
Great Britain: government wants to introduce regional pay rates across the public sector
Prior to the Budget of 21 March 2012, the government had asked the four Pay Review Bodies for NHS workers, schoolteachers, operational staff in public sector prisons and civil servants to examine...
29 March 2012
Great Britain: Supreme Court rules in favor of asbestos victims
“The negligent exposure of an employee to asbestos during the [insurance] policy period has a sufficient causal link with subsequently arising mesothelioma to trigger the insurer’s obligation.” ...
29 March 2012
United States: two years after passing, the health insurance reform is still bitterly debated
The nine judges (five Republican, four Democrat) who will examine the health reform passed by Barack Obama two years ago (see our dispatch No. 100249), who were notably seized by 26 States...
29 March 2012
Austria: union membership stable after 20 years down
Stabilization is almost established. The Austrian Trade Union Confederation says a ‘turn’ was made in 2011. After seeing its size shrink for 20 years, the ÖGB only experienced a 0.4 percent...
28 March 2012
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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...
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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