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Italy: government agrees to bill introducing a quota for 30% of women on boards
“More than ever, we need to turn our country’s tremendous pool of female human capital, still underexploited, into a card to play in the game of development, competitiveness and social...
26 November 2010
Spain: unions and employers prepare the reform of collective bargaining
Prepare the reform. Reforming collective bargaining should help improve relations within businesses, productivity and competitiveness, and encourage employee participation. Representatives of the...
25 November 2010
France: 2011 social security budget act marked by reduced social niches
After deficits soared in 2009 because of the economic crisis, 2010 witnessed a slight improvement in the situation of French corporate financial statements. Indeed, the deficit of the social...
25 November 2010
Great Britain: new Unite leader Len McCluskey wants to launch a campaign in 2011 to save the Welfare State
The day he was officially appointed Unite general secretary (see our dispatch No. 100825), he told the media: ‘[W]orking people are under massive attack now. This government is expecting them to...
25 November 2010
Portugal: unitary general strike of Wednesday November 24th qualified of the “biggest ever”
Numbers. Unions said about 3 million people adhered to the paralysis of Wednesday, November 24th, out of 5.5 million active people. With this number, they declared that the strike was a perfect...
25 November 2010
Germany: BASF grants job security to 33,000 employees until 2015
Social partnership at the heart of modernization. After Siemens, which offered its German employees employment guarantee tacitly renewable, now BASF is giving 5 years of job security (January 1...
25 November 2010
Romania: slight minimum wage increase
After months bargaining, the Romanian government finally increased minimum wage, from RON 600 to 670 (approximately EUR 143 to 160). This is more than the IMF recommended but less than what...
25 November 2010
Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement in ceramics
After five months bargaining, ceramics unions, who presented three separate platforms, reached a unitary agreement for the renewal of the sector’s CCN, which expired on June 30th. Valid from July...
24 November 2010
Netherlands: “inspiration book” on everyday ecology on workplaces
The inspiration book (“inspiratieboek”) for “sustainable work” published by the FNV in mid-November is presented under the form of a small treaty on ecology at work. It is the result ff a...
Germany: IG-Metall wants to “strike at” the renewable energy sector
Businesses locked on the issue of collective agreements. The warning strikes organized these past few days by the 180 employees of Solibro, subsidiary of Q-Cells, one of the world leaders in the...
24 November 2010
United States: two-tier wage scales gain traction
Harley Davidson. Harley Davidson’s management organized the first round of negotiations. Motorbikes sales, for $35,000 (about €26,000) a piece, slowed down during the recession the market is 40%...
24 November 2010
Great Britain: government in favor of managed immigration
Cap. The UK’s conservative-liberal government agreed to introduce a figured immigration target. With this new strategy, the UK is turning to “managed” or “select” immigration. On November 23rd...
24 November 2010
Italy: Agenquadri general executives’ association renews CGIL affiliation pact
“The union needs project managers and executives, and project managers and executives need the union.” It is with this slogan that the CGIL and Agenquadri, the general association of project...
23 November 2010
EU: target of 40% of women on company boards by 2020
Voluntary measures. Currently, there are only 10% of women on the boards of the largest publicly listed companies in the EU. Besides, they only account for 3% of the presidents of the board. ...
23 November 2010
Great Britain: Tesco chain stores introduce overtime booking system
With some 340,000 staff in employed in its 2,500 stores, Tesco is the biggest private sector in Britain and has in effect created its own form of an internal labour market. Thus, its frontline...
23 November 2010
Great Britain: Len McCluskey becomes the new general secretary of the biggest union in Britain, Unite
This represents a decisive victory for the left, albeit a divided left, for the total left vote was 153,000 votes (McCluskey plus Hicks) while the combined rightwing and centre-left vote was...
22 November 2010
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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
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...
14 October 2025
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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