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Great Britain: government wants to boost apprenticeship to make up for the talent shortage
Quantity. Play on the quantity and quality of professional training: this is the double objective of the government which launched, in November 2010, its strategy for training and apprenticeship...
9 February 2011
Germany: IG-Metall union calls for 5% wage increase for 130,000 employees in textile and clothing
Employees’ high expectations. Helga Schwitzer, in charge of collective bargaining within the IG-Metall’s steering committee, justified the wage claim by reminding that employees bore most of the...
8 February 2011
EU: Sylvain Lefebvre, EMCEF political secretary, says new EWC directive “gives impetus to bargaining”
Globally, the new EWC directive gives impetus to negotiation, to our representatives, and to trade union organizations, either to improve existing agreements, or to establish new ones. At...
8 February 2011
Germany: Volkswagen staff get 3.2% pay rise
Compromise. Pointing to the German carmaker’s good results in 2010, the IG-Metall’s collective bargaining committee announced, on December 6th, that it intended to claim for a 6% wage increase...
8 February 2011
Netherlands: tough negotiations at NXP, Philips subsidiary
Negotiations for the future collective agreement at NXP should be difficult. This metallurgic company created in 2006 to outsource Philips’ production of semiconductors is owned by American...
8 February 2011
EU: the social models of the 27 Member States at the heart of the debate on the future European economic governance
Unofficial list. For the “Pact for Competitiveness” she proposed, the Chancellor considers that “the model chosen should come from the country that meets the most requirements,” namely Germany. ...
7 February 2011
Portugal: rotating and partial strikes all week against austerity
Transport affected. The Monday, February 7-Friday, February 11 is going to be a week characterized by partial strikes in transportation and at the Portuguese post. The first to enter the contest...
7 February 2011
Germany: government wants to introduce “flexible quotas” to increase the number of women on companies’ boards
The French example. For once, France is an example for Germany since it signed, in January, the introduction of a statutory and mandatory quota of 40% of women by 2017 (20% in 2014) at the head...
7 February 2011
Belgium: FGTB and CGSBL reject cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
Refusal. After consulting its members, the FGTB refused to sign the draft cross-industry agreement 2011-2012 the social partners concluded in mid-January (see our dispatch No. 110040). On...
7 February 2011
Italy: social partners in “logistics, transportation and goods delivering” industry renew CCN with a unitary agreement
On the night of January 26th, Aite, Aiti, Ansep-Unitam, Assoespressi, Assologistica, Federspedi, Fedit, Fisi, Federlavoro, Legacoop servizi, Produzione e servizi di lavoro-AGCI, Anita, CNA-Fita...
3 February 2011
Romania: fierce negotiations on the new Labor Code
Lingering negotiations. On Wednesday, February 2nd, a new meeting took place between union representatives, Labor Minister Ioan Botis and Premier Emil Boc but it didn’t achieve the negotiations...
3 February 2011
Hungary: new regulations concerning full-time job combined with parental benefit
Mothers or fathers are entitled to parental leave until the child reaches the age of three. Over this period they are also entitled to parental benefit from the Hungarian Government, which amount...
3 February 2011
Morocco: youth social exclusion is destabilizing Morocco as much as other North African countries
High youth unemployment and precarious employment make a cocktail for social uneasiness. In 2008, the unemployment rate for the 20-29 age group was 30% in Tunisia, 21.5% in Algeria and 17.6% in...
3 February 2011
Denmark: government presents bill on pension reform
Increase the workforce by nearly 70,000 people in 2020 while “improving” government finances by nearly DKK 18bn (€2.414bn) in the same year. This is the double objective targeted by the...
2 February 2011
Great Britain: TUC develops work program to coordinate affiliates’ industrial action against the government’s policy
Last September, at its annual congress the TUC committed itself to coordinate the resistance of its affiliates’ members’ action against the government cuts (see our dispatch No. 100656). This...
2 February 2011
Spain: government, employers and unions sign “grand social pact”
Exercise of shared responsibility. Bringing this pact into the tradition of social dialogue which, since the transition to democracy, has been “one of the elements that helped permanently...
2 February 2011
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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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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...
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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