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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
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
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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EU: insurance sector social partners commit to addressing violence and harassment at work
The news. The trade union UNI Europa Finance and the employers’ federations Insurance Europe, Amice and Bipar signed an addendum to their 2022 joint declaration on diversity and inclusion on...
18 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026