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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
Netherlands: reforming the system to help disabled employees
The measures aims to abolish the 100,000 State-funded jobs for disabled people, to review social benefits for disabled people (Bijstand, 314,000 beneficiaries) and the special system for young...
2 February 2012
EU: first joint executive committee for the EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL to prepare their coming merger
No to austerity. Michael Vassiliadis, current EMCEF President, will be the new federation’s Chairman; EMF general secretary, Ulrich Eckelmann, will be the new general secretary and Bart Samyn...
2 February 2012
United States: National Oil Bargaining Policy shows will to better prevent accidents
United Steelworkers (USW) announced, on Tuesday, January 31, a few hours before the previous framework agreement, in force since 2009, expired, a new three-year deal with Shell, representing oil...
2 February 2012
Morocco: creation of a union-employers social mediation committee
Failure of the conciliation procedures provided for in the Labor Code. The Union of Moroccan Workers (Union Marocaine des Travailleurs, UMT) and the General Confederation of Moroccan...
1 February 2012
Germany: Deutsche Bahn managers will have to take better account of employee and customer satisfaction
Unhappy customers and employees. “Profitable growth can only be obtained with enthusiastic workers and satisfied customers. This is why quality and the satisfaction of customers and employees...
1 February 2012
Great Britain: RMT transport union reaches very favourable deal on a strategic line for the Olympic Games this summer in London
Serco Docklands, which operates the driver-less train service but has on-board train staff, agreed to a rise in the standard overtime rate for about 550 of its employees, making overtime paid at...
1 February 2012
United States: union membership stable around 12 percent
“In 2011, the union membership rate was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010,” the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 27. while in the public sector...
31 January 2012
Belgium: seniors at the heart of the new employment policy
Age pyramid in the company. The Belgian government decided to address the issue of senior employment head-on, while 38.6 percent of 55-64 year-olds had a job in early 2011. As part of a mass...
31 January 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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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...
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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...
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