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Germany: big energy producers are getting ready to cut staff
generator in Germany, confirmed that it intended to cut 11,000 jobs, 6,000 of which in Germany. A social plan will be presented at the end of October, but this decision is rejected by the Verdi...
11 October 2011
Netherlands: government ready to talk retirement with young people
ocial Affairs Henk Kamp wants to see more young people at the negotiating table on retirement. However, people under 25 only account for 4% of union members for 36% of 25-45 year-olds and 60% of...
11 October 2011
Sweden: technology social partners lay foundation for coming sectoral negotiations
titive while dealing with employees’ interests? It is the underlying question for the coming negotiations in the technological industry. Following the claims released on September 20th by...
10 October 2011
Morocco: new assistance to boost youth employment
yers’ organization recently signed a new agreement. For the permanent recruitment of a young people for more than 12 months on ANAPEC benefits (the National Agency for Promoting Employment...
10 October 2011
EU: electricity social partners want to be closely involved with the ongoing “stress tests” in the nuclear industry
ean electricity social partners (Eurelectric for employers and EMCEF and EPSU for unions) met for a social dialogue meeting. The nuclear industry stood out with, among other things, a draft joint...
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10 October 2011
Germany: IG-Metall Conference celebrates the success of its strategic shift
e, organized every four years, started on Sunday, October 9th in Lüdenscheid and will end on the evening of October 15th. The 481 delegates will have to vote nearly 500 motions. These include...
10 October 2011
Hungary: government prepares reform to reduce the prerogatives and protection of employee representatives
tional Economy presented, last week, a tentative Labor Code reform envisaging the removal of layoff protection for some categories of employees (workers on parental leave, seniors, union...
10 October 2011
EU: 3rd Uni Europa Congress calls for union for better action
ber 3-5 for the 3rd time, the Conference of the European services workers union, Uni Europa, introduced the “Union-Vision-Action” program for the next four years. For the organization...
10 October 2011
Germany: Deutsche Post extends Job Security Pact until 2015 but decreases entry level pay
Deutsche Post and the Verdi services' union agreed, on October 6th, on a series of measures allowing the company to better face market trends and the development of society. Key measures affect...
6 October 2011
Sweden: Almega employers’ organization wants to upgrade collective agreements
ctive agreements” declared Almega, the key sectoral employers’ organization with 10,000 businesses in services, at its press conference on September 21st. In preparation for the coming...
6 October 2011
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
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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