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Spain: Parliament ratifies last Labor Market Reform Act
ament validated a new chapter of the Labor reform. The decree contains a series of emergency measures encouraging youth employment, prolongs the EUR 400 subsidy for jobseekers about to lose their...
15 September 2011
Germany: IG-Metall union starts next Congress with more and younger members
four-year Congress, on October 9-15, 2011, the management of the Metalworkers’ Union Federation is starting to leak the first elements of its evaluation. For the biggest sectoral union in...
15 September 2011
Italy: measures of the budget austerity plan affecting the social sphere
e since the beginning of the Berlusconi administration, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the new budget austerity plan last night (September 14th). The law aims to save over EUR 53M in...
15 September 2011
Great Britain: key unions ballot for strike on November 30th
ld a ‘crisis’ annual conference at its London headquarters on September 12-14. With a vastly reduced number of delegates (600 down to 300) from its 58 union affiliates comprising 6.2m...
15 September 2011
Germany: DBG reveals that, in spite of the lack in skilled manpower, the quality of cooperative education has not improved
he Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) revealed, on September 14th, its “2011 Annual Report on Cooperative Education” (Ausbildungsreport 2011), which evaluates the quality of...
14 September 2011
China: the modalities of the new obligation to subject foreign workers to the Chinese social security still need to be clarified
2010 Social Insurance Act, enforced on July 1st, provides, for the first time ever, for the mandatory subjection of foreign workers to the Chinese social security, when they used to be...
14 September 2011
EU: towards a general principle taking account of the period of temporary employment in the seniority of a worker with a permanent contract
ptember 8th, the Court of Justice of the European union (CJEU) stated that the internal promotion of a worker with a permanent contract should take into consideration seniority years performed as...
14 September 2011
South Africa: three-year agreement in the industry
neering Industry Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA, the steel employers’ organization) and several unions (NUMSA, Solidarity, UASA the Union, CEPPWAWU, MEWUSA and SAEWA) signed a three-year...
14 September 2011
Portugal: unions and employers reject the government’s plan to create a compensation fund to pay for layoffs
d the government’s draft on the creation of a compensation fund to partly pay for workers’ layoffs. The social partners demand new guarantees as to its efficiency. (Ref. 110539)...
13 September 2011
Spain: unions are worried about the new constraints announced by the carmakers
several carmakers announced that they intended to reduce operations in their Spanish sites. They are asking that businesses don’t make employees alone pay for the consequences of the drop in...
13 September 2011
Netherlands: bill on the right to flexiwork and telework
and telework by 2013 is the target of a bill introduced on September 12th in Parliament and which has the support of a majority of MPs. (Ref. 110537) Since 2009, the Christian Democratic Party...
13 September 2011
Turkey: new “National Employment Strategy”
Party (Muslim/conservative, AKP) won, on June 12th, its third consecutive victory since 2002. Numerous reforms were announced, among which the fight against unemployment, one of the key stakes for...
12 September 2011
International: UNI launches global union alliance for Manpower staff
d, on September 6 in Nyon, an international union network for Manpower. In doing so, the union representatives are hoping for better follow-up of the memorandum of understanding signed in 2008...
12 September 2011
Great Britain: creeping discontent in the construction industry after eight contractors proposed to cut hourly rates of pay
echanical contractors in the building and construction industry are proposing to cut hourly rates of pay by up to 35% from March 2012. The current industry rate of £16.25 per hour (nearly...
12 September 2011
Germany: Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency calls for better protection against discriminations
the “Equal Treatment Act” celebrated its fifth birthday this summer. On this occasion, the German Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, created within the framework of this law, issued...
12 September 2011
EU: report on European social files
or is taking stock of major ongoing social debates in Brussels. On the menu: extension of maternity leave, Parliament negotiations on draft directives regarding intra-group transfers and seasonal...
12 September 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