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Corporate practices: how the SICK AG sensor producer managed to reduce stress and noise in its offices
Keeping employees healthy. Special award in 2005 for its ‘lifelong learning’ concept, award for its measures in favor of senior workers in 2006 and 2008, award for its equal opportunities policy...
28 October 2011
United States: National Labor Relations Board under heavy Republican fire
Undo what the NLRB has done. Anticipating its coming paralysis (see our dispatch No. 110509), the NLRB has been multiplying strong actions and rulings facilitation unionization. But this was...
28 October 2011
International: dialogue between temporary union and employers’ representatives, in the ILO’s bosom, is stuck on collective bargaining
Convention No. 181. In 2009, employers’ representatives, including the International Confederation of Private Employment Agencies (CIETT), and unions, notably represented by UNI Global, met in a...
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27 October 2011
Great Britain: “Swedish derogation” legally allowing businesses to avoid the Agency Workers’ Act
have asked their temporary work agencies to permanently hire the workers they send them, so that they don’t have to pay agency workers as permanent workers, which has been required by law...
27 October 2011
Italy: towards the application of the “Pomigliano model” in all Fiat undertakings in Italy
Uil, Fim, Uilm and Fismic unions on October 25th, Fiat confirmed its programs for its Italian undertakings and got unions’ consent for the negotiation of a single collective agreement for...
27 October 2011
Italy: the city of Milan and unions sign an agreement on continuous dialogue
After the center-left won the municipal election last may, the Italian economic capital is launching a new season of union relations, with the watchwords “Dialogue, involvement, sharing.” Mayor...
27 October 2011
Italy: CGIL youth kick off the new campaign “Rights and no words”
The tone was set by a flash mob in downtown Rome on the morning of October 24th, where young activists dressed as cooks got a pan out and gave passers-by notes on which were sentences summarizing...
26 October 2011
Great Britain: employers launch protocol removing disabled candidates’ recruitment barriers
Adjust recruitment. The EFD is an association of employers who work on facilitating recruitment and businesses with people with a disability. On October 20th, affiliated employers met and...
26 October 2011
EU: CSR is back on the social agenda
New definition. The Commission starts with an updated definition and lists the actions it intends to take. Now, CSR means “the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society,” a much...
25 October 2011
United States: Facebook as the new partner of employment services
One year after the first complaint lodged by an employee fired because he criticized his employer on Facebook, the American government wants to use this social network as an instrument to combat...
25 October 2011
Italy: Fiom-CGIL metalworkers’ federation gives positive report of the national Fiat/Fincantieri strike
With the motto “Democracy, contract, labor,” the Fiom organized the first national demonstration of Fiat’s workers on the Piazza del Popolo also involving the workers of Fiat and Fincantieri’s...
25 October 2011
ThyssenKrupp: IG-Metall union wants to help the American USW union settle in the German steel plant in Alabama
Bullying measures. This conflict isn’t new. For several years now, the IG-Metall has been blaming the German steel giant (180,000 employees, €42 billion in sales in 2009/2010) of “riding...
25 October 2011
International: creation of a trade union federation dedicated to telecom and information technology
On October 20th, in Mexico, about 170 representatives in the sector validate the merger between UNI Telecom and UNI IBITS, the two branches of the international service union, UNI Global. The new...
25 October 2011
Great Britain: unions diversify strike tactics
In mid-October, Unison members at Barnet council in London held a second one-day strike against the proposed contracting out of services and job cuts. In order to get their message across to the...
24 October 2011
Germany: Act on reducing working time to care for a dependent person to come into force on January 1, 2012
Reconcile work and caring for a dependent person. Kristina Schröder (CDU) thinks that the new law is an “innovative system” meeting real needs. Thus, the Minister claims that, out of the 2.4...
24 October 2011
Greece: the law giving preference to company-level wage negotiations passed
Article 37 of the law introducing new austerity
measures, which notably affects the signing of company agreements and their
relation to sectoral collective agreements, is the one that made the...
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24 October 2011
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
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
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...