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Germany: Deutsche Bahn railways announce 70,000 new jobs over 10 years
s and staff cuttings, Deutsche Bahn announced, last week, that it wanted to recruit about 7,000 employees and apprentices each year during the coming decade. In the meantime, the company and...
6 September 2011
United States: pay gap allegedly bigger because of decline in union membership
union membership had a much bigger impact than anticipated on the rise of pay unfairness in the United States. This is the conclusion of two renowned sociology professors in their latest study...
5 September 2011
Sweden: social partners involved in five-year plan for disabled people
ster of Labor Hillevi Engström officially launched the “New strategy for a policy in favor of people with reduced functions” (nya strategi fôr funktionshinderspolitiken)...
5 September 2011
Great Britain: new consultation on the reform of further education for adults
ealed on August 16th in order to improve workers’ skill levels. Employers took the opportunity to criticize the extension of the apprenticeship tax and called for a voluntary approach from...
5 September 2011
Germany: Bosch Solar Energy signs first company agreement in solar power
h Solar Energy AG, Bosch Solar Wafers GmbH and Bosch Solar Thin Film, Bosch’s subsidiaries in Thuringia, signed the first true collective company agreement in a sector that is promising but...
5 September 2011
Brazil: authorities investigate the use of slavery in Zara’s workshops
bor and the San Paulo administration charged the Spanish clothing giant, Zara, with 52 infringements to labor standards after discovering, in mid-August, three clothing workshops belonging to the...
1 September 2011
United States: National Relations Board to be paralyzed soon
Board (NLRB), which arbitrates conflicts between unions and businesses, could be paralyzed soon. The chair of the NLRB’s board, Wilma Liebman, just left. Another colleague should leave the...
1 September 2011
Great Britain: tricky merger between RMT and TSSA transport and rail unions
Discussions will focus upon closer working
between both unions initially through a federation structure with a view to
moving towards a merger. Both unions also agreed that the door will remain...
1 September 2011
Germany: employees’ good ideas helped businesses save EUR 1.37 billion in 2010
of August by the German Institute for Business Management (Deutsche Institut für Betriebswirtschaft, DIB) reports on the management of ideas in German businesses in 2010. In the 176 companies...
1 September 2011
Sweden: first step towards the possible evolution of the criteria for layoff order
Workers, key union in the country) took the initiative, last fall, and invited the key employers’ organization, Svenskt Näringsliv, to take part in a working group to jointly discuss...
1 September 2011
United States: United Auto Workers (UAW) wants higher wages for new employees
ed Auto Workers (UAW), wants the $14 an hour wage which most entry-levels workers receive to be increased. The UAW is currently bargaining for pay with the “Big 3” (General Motors...
31 August 2011
Belgium: retailing negotiations fail
in the trade industry launched a campaign calling for the resumption of talks on working conditions in the sector. Unable to overcome their disagreements, the social partners terminated the...
31 August 2011
France: administration clarifies conditions to apply “dividends bonus” to French and foreign groups
rmanently adopted the “profit-sharing bonus” to be paid to employees who paid dividends that were higher than the average of the two previous financial years. In a circular letter...
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31 August 2011
Italy: government’s new austerity program tackles labor law
ulative assault against Italy earlier this month has driven the Council of Minister to approve an emergency decree anticipating and toughening some provisions of the austerity program announced...
31 August 2011
Poland: report on working and employment conditions in businesses
the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Dublin) published, on August 24th, a report on work and employment conditions in Polish enterprises. It shows that, since 2005, while working...
31 August 2011
Spain: new training and apprenticeship contracts for people under 30 and suspension of some anti-precariousness measures
government approved new measures encouraging employment and training. Initiatives included in the royal decree include the creation of a new training and apprenticeship contract for people under...
30 August 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