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Belgium: government chooses its compromise offer to make up for the absence of cross-industry agreement
Application of the agreement. After an umpteenth meeting with the social partners on Friday morning, premier Yves Leterme asked his government to start the implementation of the draft compromise...
21 February 2011
Germany: government agrees to the introduction of minimum wage in interim, surveillance and continuous education
Moderate increase of the Hartz IV allowance. In February 2010, the Karlsruhe federal constitutional court forced the coalition parties to review the amount and calculation modalities of the Hartz...
21 February 2011
Rhodia: renewal of the global agreements on social and environmental responsibility
This new renewal of the agreement, already renewed in 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080333), ads the addendum signed in 2010 which provided for the creation of a “global safety panel” whose mission...
21 February 2011
Denmark: sponsorship, unions’ new “weapon” to recruit new members
Until the summer 2013, the AG København (AGK) handball team will bear, on their T-shirts, the names and logos of the Det Faglig Hus and Krifa unions. Via an unheard-of alliance in Denmark, the...
21 February 2011
Italy: 3rd national conference of call center workers warns about relocations in the industry
The SLC organized the 3rd national conference of call center workers on February 18-19 in Rome. Three years after the stabilization procedures, which led to permanent contracts for nearly 25,000...
21 February 2011
Germany: Hartz IV regulations reforming unemployment insurance didn’t help reinstate long-term jobseekers
Last week, the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur – BA) provided, for the first time, figures published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, confirming that the people who receive the Hartz IV...
21 February 2011
Netherlands: new pilot-project to avoid long-term unemployment
Nine projects were simultaneously launched in Apeldoorn, Eindhoven, Nijmegen, Woerden and other cities, in sectors such as wood, construction, graphic design or health, to help laid off employees...
21 February 2011
Netherlands: negotiations open in the basic metal industry
Negotiations for the new collective agreement started on February 16th in basic metalworking, under the sign of “increasingly worsening deterioration” said Jan Berghuis, negotiator for the...
18 February 2011
Italy: CGIL’s federation of Commerce, Filcams, launches campaign to regulate work on legal holidays
Increasingly, trade workers have to work on Sunday and legal holidays to meet the demand from retailing, small trades, towns, consumers, to the detriment of laws and collective agreements...
17 February 2011
Germany: collective bargaining fails again at Deutsche Telekom, leading to three weeks of warning strikes
“It’s not possible that, until 2012, shareholders will receive annual dividends amounting to €3.4bn while the people who create this wealth leave empty-handed” declared Harald Dressler, one of...
17 February 2011
Germany: working time reduction to care for dependent people subject to company’s consent
Therefore, Kristina Schröder presented a ‘light’ bill on the reduction of working time to care for a dependent family member (Familienpflegeteilzeit), ratified by the members of the coalition in...
17 February 2011
Italy:Uilm held first “cross-territory” national assembly
With the slogan, “What have we done and what remains to be done?”, the Uilm gathered, on February 14-15 in Rome, nearly 200 local union leaders from all Italian provinces as well as the...
16 February 2011
Austria: great internal retraining program in Austrian railway is having a hard time taking off
Trim administration and organize transfers. The issue of personnel costs, i.e. 43% of total exploitation costs, is one of the ÖBB’s numerous problems and forces the public company, every year, to...
16 February 2011
Belgium: mediation on 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement failed
Employers’ support. Will the Belgian government override the rejection of the FGTB, second largest union in the country? The day of consultation on Monday, February 14th (see our dispatch No. ...
16 February 2011
Denmark: labor inspectorate suspended the activity of 85% of foreign businesses controlled last year
“The danger observed was such that nobody was allowed to work again until the site was safer” Hasse Mortensen, lead inspector at the Labor Inspectorate, told Ugebrevet A4, the LO union’s weekly...
16 February 2011
Germany: one plant at a time, Continental Automotive negotiates “derogatory agreements” way below the sectoral collective agreement
Continental is doing better… The official communication of Continental Automotive is trying to look on the bright side. Since the beginning of the year, Continental has been multiplying...
15 February 2011
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Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
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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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Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
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Germany: pensioners in work already common practice, study shows
As the German government steps up measures to encourage people to stay in work beyond the legal retirement age, a new study by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) – an independent...
6 November 2025
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
The Spanish government has paved the way for the creation of a new status for "persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies, institutions or public or private organisations...
7 November 2025
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France: social conference on labour and pensions to proceed without main employers’ group
The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
5 November 2025
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
After lengthy negotiations with the social partners, in mid-October the Luxembourg government submitted two bills to parliament aimed at reforming the pension system to ensure its long-term...
6 November 2025
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France: TotalEnergies steps up commitment on disability
On 9 October, French energy group TotalEnergies and all representative trade unions signed a new four-year agreement on disability inclusion. Taking effect on 1 January 2026, the deal aims to help...
13 November 2025
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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025