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Italy: Fiom wins first appeal against the application of the 2009 separate agreement on the metal CCN
While the Fiom presented its appeal to the Turin court against Fiat for “antiunion behavior” in the procedure used for the Pomigliano and Mirafiori newcos, the CGIL’s metalworkers’ federation won...
20 April 2011
United States: National Labor Relations Board reminds employees’ rights regarding social media
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other e-novelties didn’t exist in 1935 when the agency was created. However, NLRB representatives think they are perfectly able to deal with this new issue. Last...
20 April 2011
Germany: two temporary employers’ organizations merge before decisive negotiations on equal pay
Employers’ organizations in a hurry. The BZA and AMP implemented the planned merger mentioned last autumn (see our dispatch No. 100692). The new federation is located in Berlin and called the...
20 April 2011
EU: Peter Scherrer, general secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation, says there is “A widening gap between industry-based countries and the others”
Peter Scherrer. No, on the contrary, there is much more of a need for the industry. It can help solve the big problems we are facing in the future with energy, raw materials, waste management and...
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20 April 2011
Portugal: strike notice suspended in chain stores and negotiations starting up
Conciliation. The CESP, union of trade, service and office workers, suspended the strike notice presented for the Easter period, because negotiations with employers reopened. A first...
19 April 2011
Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the collective agreement of the Poste Italiane
After “long and difficult negotiations” during which, according to unions, only “unity and homogeneity” helped overcome “unjustified rigidity” from the group’s management, SLP-Cisl, SLC-CGIL...
19 April 2011
Germany: IG-Metall wants to limit appeal to temporary work as in Thuringia
Combining economic subsidies and volume of temporary employment. On Wednesday, April 13th, the IG-Metall Frankfurt and its general secretary, Armin Schild, met with the Minister of Economic...
19 April 2011
EU: metal social partners eager to know more about the Commission’s industrial strategy
Risk of transverse approach. First, the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) for unions and the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-Based Industries (CEEMET)...
19 April 2011
Italy: ThyssenKrupp CEO sentenced to 16.5 years in prison for murder after the fire in the Turin establishment in 2007
After an investigation completed in record time, the case referred to the assize court with, for the first time in the case of a deadly industrial accident, murder charges for the highest-ranking...
18 April 2011
Netherlands: mandatory registration for all temporary agencies
The Netherlands’ 2,300 temporary work agencies have until January 1, 2012 to enroll with the trade register (Handelregister). For the moment, only 35% have registered. The government wants to...
18 April 2011
Spain: agreement on collective bargaining reform stuck on the fight against absenteeism and the creation of a youth contract
The signature of the social partners’ agreement on the reform of collective bargaining is running a little late. So far, the debate between the social partners focused on the issue of improving...
18 April 2011
Belgium: start of the negotiations for the new collective agreement in electricity and gas
Harmonizing statuses. While energy prices keep increasing, employers plead a wage increase contained in the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement, i.e. 0.3% maximum (see our dispatch No. 110122). ...
18 April 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers’ union and Deutsche Bahn sign three collective agreements
Towards pay unity for all train drivers. At a joint press conference with Ulrich Weber, DB HR manager, Claus Weselsky, GDL leader, rejoiced with the signature of these agreements which put an end...
18 April 2011
EU: chemistry social partners define framework on the competence profiles of two “key” positions
In preparation for demographic ageing and in order to facilitate the movement of European workers within the EU, the chemistry social partners drew up a framework on competence profiles for two...
18 April 2011
Denmark: close watch over the working environment of the LM Wind Power ‘green giant’
Denouncing unprotected styrene exposure for the employees of LM Wind Powers, the Berlingske Tidende daily published, on February 20th, an alarming survey on the working environment in the group’s...
15 April 2011
Italy: social partners sign joint opinion for the transposition of the new EWC directive
Dialogue. The signatories said that the aim of this directive is to “develop, via the involvement of workers, a constructive attitude of change based on effective social dialogue.” They share...
14 April 2011
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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...
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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...