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Great Britain: government publishes Pensions Bill 2011
This bill implements the reform enacted two years ago (Pensions Act 2008) to boost private savings, notably via automatic enrolment to professional pensions schemes. If businesses don’t create...
20 January 2011
Spain: outcry against plan to extend stores’ opening hours
When presenting his schedule of ongoing reform on January 11th, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that he would ask the country’s 17 autonomous communities “concerted action regarding the...
19 January 2011
Germany: mass rebellion from banks’ account managers against bill introducing threat of exclusion from public-sector employment
Central register and exclusion from public-sector employment. Banking social partners have declared war against a new provision the government added to the bill on protection afforded to...
19 January 2011
Belgium: social partners sign cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
Indexation and wage norm. The cross-industry agreement signed on Tuesday night provides for a wage norm 0.3% higher than inflation, i.e. a purely symbolic margin. The social partners took...
19 January 2011
Netherlands: special fund to recruit mailmen
In theory, postal firms had until January 1, 2011 to reach an agreement allowing them to recruit 80% of their staff with a labor contract, respecting the collective agreement in force. This...
19 January 2011
Italy: CGIL proposal to change representation and union democracy rules
On January 15th, the CGIL’s steering committee approved the proposal entitled “Democracy and Representation.” Pointing out that “union freedom belongs to all workers and can’t become a variable...
19 January 2011
Great Britain: fathers at the center of the government’s draft reform of parental leave
Paternity leave was already extended. The regulations on additional paternity leave introduced by the last government and adopted in April 2010, considered as better than nothing, are still in...
18 January 2011
Morocco: EU-Morocco partnership struggles to bear fruit on social and labor rights
Initiating synergy between the Advanced Status and Euromed. This first meeting between the Euro-Mediterranean (Euromed) Moroccan network of NGOs and the equal Parliamentary committee for the...
17 January 2011
Electrolux: international framework agreement signed with Swedish metalworkers’ union, IF Metall
A framework agreement that recognizes the role unions play across the world. “This is highly satisfactory and we hope other businesses are going to follow this example” declared Stefan Löfven...
17 January 2011
Germany: new “historical” sectoral collective agreement in local rail traffic
End of wage dumping. With this sectoral agreement, adopted after months of particularly tricky negotiations (see our dispatch No. 100725), the new rail union, EVG (Eisenbahn – und...
17 January 2011
France: Directive 2009/38 on EWCs (recast) to be transposed via ordinance
The amendment added to the bill containing several provisions to make the law comply with EU law regarding health, labor and electronic communication, which has yet to be permanently adopted...
17 January 2011
Portugal: employers recommend temporary flexibility on labor laws
Temporary reform in times of a crisis. The CIP’s new management, which has recently took up its post, recommends a temporary reform of the Labor Code to revive the country’s economy. The point...
17 January 2011
Italy: 54% of Fiat Mirafiori employees approve the separate agreement on the plant’s future
The outcome of the referendum on the separate agreement for the reorganization of Fiat’s historical plant in Turin, Mirafiori, signed on December 23rd (see our dispatch No. 110001) by the...
17 January 2011
United States: CEOs of auto Big 3 want to link workers’ remuneration with the company’s performances
Big bosses in the American automotive industry are dreaming of a new form of remuneration, based on performance, for their plants’ unionized workers. Several mentioned the possibility to...
17 January 2011
Great Britain: government confirms abolition of default retirement age and publishes guide for employers
Removal. It is now certain: from April 6, 2011, only workers who receive compulsory retirement notice and whose retirement date is before October 1st can be let go. From October 1, 2011...
17 January 2011
Great Britain: Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) organises very active campaign to defeat the privatisation of Royal Mail
In parliament, it is using its sponsored MPs to lay down key amendments to highlight the effect privatisation will have in worsening standards of service for businesses and citizens as well as...
14 January 2011
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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...
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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...
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...
15 October 2025
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EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI
On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...
18 December 2025
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Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement
Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching...
12 December 2025
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EU: revised EWC directive published in official journal
The revision of the European Works Councils Directive, adopted by the European Parliament on 9 October, was published on 11 December in the EU’s official journal. Initiated in early 2023 by...
11 December 2025
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France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval
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
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Italy: collective agreement for rubber and plastics sector focuses on new skills
A month ahead of schedule, the Federazione Gomma Plastica employers' organisation and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions have renewed the collective agreement for the rubber and...
5 January 2026
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Germany: far-right-aligned ‘union’ sets sights on Volkswagen works councils
At next spring’s German works council elections, Zentrum – the 'alternative' union aligned with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party – will seek to strengthen its foothold in major...
9 December 2025