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Italy: Fiat signs separate agreement for its new national collective agreement
The agreement signed yesterday is “a historical turn for our company and its workers” rejoiced Sergio Marchionne, Managing Director of Fiat S.p.A. and CEO of Fiat Industrial. Valid for one year...
14 December 2011
Romania: minimum wage up to RON 700 in 2012
Planned increase. While the measure has yet to be ratified, the announcement is official. Sulfina Barbu, Romanian Minister of Labor, confirmed that minimum wage would go from RON 670 currently...
14 December 2011
Sodexo: new international framework agreement on fundamental rights at work
In this agreement, “Sodexo commits to see to it that all its employees can access the following fundamental rights, while conforming to the local legislation:
13 December 2011
Germany: IG-Metall and Verdi union compete in industrial service provider companies
Outsourcing boom. According to the IG-Metall, more and more businesses outsource a substantial part of their operations to cut costs, and not only non-strategic operations (catering, cleaning…). ...
13 December 2011
Italy: first unitary strike for the Monti administration
After years of union division, the unitary strike against the government’s austerity program (see our dispatch No. 110750) called for by the CGIL, Cisl and Uil yesterday, December 12, was “fully...
13 December 2011
Great Britain: Unite offers membership of 50p per week to appeal to activists involved in social movements
The move is also an attempt to provide an instance of the union movement having its own version of the ‘big society’, the idea promoted by Prime Minister, David Cameron, whereby many of the...
13 December 2011
Corporate practices: secrets behind Scania’s ‘perfect’ age pyramid
Currently, Scania Group is one of the leaders in the manufacture of heavyweights, buses, vans, as well as industrial and marine engines. It also offers and sells a wide range of maintenance...
12 December 2011
Sweden: unions are facing competition from private firms
How to offer union-like services without being a union. Currently, there are two reasons why workers should join a union: their collective rights are defended and they get a multitude of other...
12 December 2011
Denmark: large businesses and government are banking on CSR
The Commerce and Companies Agency (Erhvervs- og Selskabsstyrelsen) recently published an analysis on the impact of the “årsregnskabslov,” the law of December 16, 2008 which forces large businesses...
EU: gas social partners officially ask the Commission to improve the social dimension of its future energy strategy
Initiatives. “The recent proposals of the European Commission (…) do not take sufficient account of the profound changes in the energy industry and their impact on the companies, employment and...
12 December 2011
Groupama: amendment adjusting the EWC agreement to the new European Directive
Information/consultation. Thus, employee representatives are assured “information and consultation at appropriate level and in a timely manner.” Information is defined as “the transmission of...
12 December 2011
Germany: Postbank and Verdi put an end to their conflict on the transfer of employees to external companies
In Verdi’s eyes, this conflict on the transfer, announced last summer, of about 1,500 Postbank employees (out of 22,000) to external companies, within the framework of the DB’s takeover of...
12 December 2011
Carrefour: the French company and UNI Global union create Carrefour Colombia union
Global agreement for the creation of Carrefour unions. On December 1, 112 workers of Carrefour Colombia created their own union organization, called Unión de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de...
12 December 2011
Portugal: new bill adding 30 minutes to the workday
f Ministers adopted a bill increasing the workday by 30 minutes in the private sector, with no financial compensation. (Ref. 110768) Private sector. The decision of the conservative Portuguese...
12 December 2011
SAP: new agreement establishing a EWC
Atypical philosophy of employee representation. After a two-year bargaining and thinking process, launched in 2009, SAP announced that a majority of the 29 members of the SNB agreed on the final...
12 December 2011
EADS: new European agreement on the harmonization of the variable remuneration of Senior Managers
Senior Managers (L4) working in businesses where EADS holds over 50% of the capital in the countries where the country is primarily present (Germany, UK, Spain, France) are going to be subject to...
11 December 2011
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31 October 2025
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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
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