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France: the bill introducing social VAT and increasing the minimum number of apprentices in businesses was adopted
Social VAT. This was one of the most controversial topics of the social summit of January 18 (see our dispatch No. 120027). The measure aims to reduce labor costs by €13.2 billion in order to...
9 February 2012
Italy: Banco Popolare introduces sabbatical to combine cost cutting and work-life balance requirements
This “agreement is particularly innovative because it combines banks’ need to save money and workers’ private demands.” This is what Fabi’s Banco Popolare coordination said to define the...
8 February 2012
Germany: for the first time, the IG-Metall plans to put agency workers on strike
“Sectoral bonuses” for agency workers in the metal industry. “We now represent agency workers on many sites (…). Thus, in the spring, there will be a few actions involving temporary workers...
8 February 2012
Spain: the social partners adjust the public system for out-of-court dispute settlement to new collective bargaining stakes
The agreement signed on February 7 aims to improve the role and intervention capability of the public mediation and arbitration system (SIMA), introduced at national level via an interconfederal...
8 February 2012
France: focus on recent court rulings on the working time of managers following the Supreme Court decree invalidating the annual working days system in the chemical sector
preme Court rendered a decree where it states that the annual working days system introduced in the chemical industry does not provide enough guarantees regarding the right to time off. Thus...
7 February 2012
EU: European social dialogue launched in the food and drink industry
This social dialogue committee was created after several recommendations by the High Level Group for the Competitiveness of the Agro Food Industry, organized by the European Commission in 2000. ...
7 February 2012
Germany: researchers warn against the limitations of work-study training
The two sides of work-study training. Work-study training, where theoretical training in a professional school is combined with practical training in a company for two to three years, is one of...
7 February 2012
Italy: the transformation of labor at Pirelli at the center of a play
“The factory is a delicate place of activities and relationships, contrast, but mostly dialogue and original syntheses. (…) Representing its dynamics in the theater is a way of giving the public...
7 February 2012
France: cross-industry negotiations on competitiveness-employment agreements should start soon
Hard for the trade unions to turn this offer down, as doing so would have led to an immediate legislative initiative. Indeed, Premier François Fillon told the press that, in the absence of a...
6 February 2012
Apple: China Labor Watch posts open letter to the CEO of Apple on Facebook
Apple is the first company in its sector to be open to the code and investigations of the Fair Labor Association (see our dispatch No. 120031). With this letter, as an answer to the announcement...
Estonia: unions mobilize against the bill on collective agreements
A bill that doesn’t favor negotiations. The current Collective Agreements Act was adopted in 1993 and amended in 2009. It provides that collective agreements come into force the day they are...
6 February 2012
EU: upload of the draft regulation on the protection of private data
The draft regulation adopted on the 25th comes along a communication entitled: “Safeguarding Privacy in a Connected World: A European Data Protection Framework for the 21st Century” which points...
3 February 2012
Great Britain: My Civil Service Pension, first experiment for the “Big Society” concept by Prime Minister James Cameron
Around 450 staff in the Department will cease to be public sector employees in March 2012 and become stakeholders in MyCSP (My Civil Service Pension), a privately-owned mutual that will handle the...
3 February 2012
Portugal: launch of the legislative procedure on the working time amendments coming from the social dialogue agreement
Canceling national holidays. The government has decided to cancel four holidays: Corpus Christi (60 days after Easter Sunday) August 15, October 5 and December 1. Regarding the two religious...
3 February 2012
Belgium: the agreement signed by social partners in the temporary sector allows appealing to this form of contract for integration purposes
New ground for appeal: integration. After years bargaining, the federation of HR service providers, Federgon, and its union counterparts, CSC, FGTB and CGSLB, managed to agree on new regulations...
2 February 2012
Italy: launch of the Regional Observatory on Enel’s working group in Latium
Enel and the regional structures of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions in Latium signed an agreement, on January 27, on the creation of the Confederal Regional Observatory on the group’s industrial...
2 February 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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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
Spain is preparing for the implementation of its national law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will take effect on 7 June 2026. The legislation marks another step forward in...
5 November 2025
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
4 November 2025
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EU: Court of Justice largely upholds directive on adequate minimum wages
On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
12 November 2025
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
4 November 2025
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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Germany: report previews draft bill to transpose EU Pay Transparency Directive
On Friday 7 November, Germany’s commission for a 'less bureaucratic implementation' of the EU Pay Transparency Directive — made up of employer and trade union representatives — submitted its...
17 November 2025