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Italy: Manageritalia and Confcommercio renew national collective agreement for service managers
Increased social protection, training and retraining for unemployed senior executives, incentives to appoint young people to managerial positions and a EUR 390 wage increase are the strong points...
6 October 2011
United States: about fifteen unions show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has evolved. About 15 unions (SEIU, CWA, UAW, United Federation of Teachers...) declared solidarity with the young protesters who have been occupying Zuccotti Park, close to...
6 October 2011
Austria: unprecedented clash in metal collective bargaining
ers’ unions announced a figured wage claim for collective negotiations before. Never had they called for a strike after the first bargaining meeting either. Now they have, after the meeting...
6 October 2011
Belgium: unions are looking for candidates for the 2012 employee representation bodies’ election
s of Works Councils (WCs) and Committees for prevention and protection at the workplace (Comités pour la prévention et la protection au travail, CPPT) will take place in May 2012 in...
6 October 2011
EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks “EWCs should be a platform for unions’ work”
lanet Labor during the Congress of the European services’ union, Uni Europa, which took place in Toulouse, France, on October 4-5, Oliver Roethig, the federation’s new regional...
6 October 2011
Germany: Daimler staff get job security until 2016
000 German employees: they are safe from layoffs until December 31, 2016. After relatively quick negotiations, the carmaker’s management and central WC agreed, on October 5th, on the renewal...
5 October 2011
Luxembourg: social partners are back at the bargaining table
ad been on hold for a year and a half. The government, employers’ representatives and unions finally met on September 29th. While the very existence of automatic indexing is no longer in...
5 October 2011
United States: employment is still the key priority in the auto industry with the agreement signed with Ford
three weeks ago, Ford is the second American carmaker to reach an understanding with United Auto Workers (UAW). The tentative agreement, even if it doesn’t provide for a general wage...
5 October 2011
Greece: government to make company negotiations simpler
the troika demanded the non-renewal of national sectoral collective agreements for three years to neutralize pay evolutions, and the government implemented a new series of measures, which notably...
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4 October 2011
Great Britain: government wants to double the qualification period for unfair dismissal tribunal claims
Reaction to the reform has been mixed, with CBI director-general, John Cridland,
responding that the ‘Extending the qualifying period for unfair dismissal is a
very positive step. We have been...
4 October 2011
Denmark: “cooperation” and “renewal” on the menu of the new government’s program
iations, the leader of the coalition that won the legislative election of September 15th, Helle Thorning-Schmidt (social-democratic party) introduced, on Monday, October 3rd, her government and...
4 October 2011
Morocco: child labor at stake again
A problem hard to measure. In 2006, Human Rights Watch published the results of a survey which showed that approximately 600,000 children were working and that there were 66,000 ‘little maids.’ ...
3 October 2011
Danone: global agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress
gned its ninth global agreement with the International Union of Food Workers (IUF). After social dialogue, diversity or even the steps to take in the event of a change in operations affecting...
3 October 2011
Italy: Fiat to leave Confindustria on January 1, 2012
, announced today October 3rd that it was leaving the Confindustria employers’ organization on January 1, 2012, which means that it will no longer be subject to the national metal collective...
3 October 2011
Spain: draft agreement on the 16th collective agreement in the chemical industry signed in spite of union division
luded, on September 29th, between Feique, the chemical employers’ organization, and Fiteqa-CCOO, the chemistry federation of Workers’ Commissions – the sector’s key union...
3 October 2011
Great Britain: enforcement of the agency workers directive and minimum wage increase
workers starting a new assignment will have the same rights as permanent workers in their company. Besides, minimum wage will increase by 15 cents (17.4 eurocents). (Ref. 110585) Agency workers...
3 October 2011
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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...
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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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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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EU: right and far right join forces in parliament to dismantle sustainability due diligence
On 13 November, the European Parliament approved the report by EPP MEP Jörgen Warborn on the proposed omnibus directive, clearing the way for trilogue negotiations. Backed by the far right, the...
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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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Germany: EU pay transparency directive to force companies to ‘get tough’
Germany introduced a pay transparency law in 2017, meaning companies are already somewhat familiar with the issue. However, the broader scope and stricter requirements of the EU directive, the...
24 October 2025
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Germany: ‘active retirement’ law adopted to encourage seniors to remain in the workforce
On 15 October, Germany’s cabinet approved draft legislation on ‘active retirement‘, which is expected to pass swiftly through Parliament. The bill would allow people who continue...
20 October 2025
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EU: omnibus bill stalls in parliament
On 22 October, members of the European Parliament narrowly voted against a negotiating mandate that would have opened trilogue talks on the omnibus directive, which seeks to dilute the corporate...
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