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Belgium: social partners transpose new EWC directive
Effectiveness. The modalities for the information and consultation of workers are determined and implemented in a way that ensures effectiveness and that allows efficient decision-making in the...
3 January 2011
Great Britain: annual working hours are gaining ground
The basic principle of annual hours is that, instead of defining working time on the basis of the standard working week, for example 37 or 39 hours, working hours are distributed out over the...
3 January 2011
Sweden: IF Metall signs highly disputed agreement on apprenticeship and occupational integration
An agreement accused of wage dumping. Pointing to the fact that Sweden has the highest youth unemployment rate in the Nordic countries, IF Metall signed an agreement aiming to facilitate young...
3 January 2011
Italy: Fiat signs new derogatory agreement for Mirafiori plant
The “newco” which will take over Mirafiori’s bodywork plant will be, as anticipated (see our dispatch No. 100895) subject to a new collective contract derogating from the national legislative and...
3 January 2011
Poland: imbroglio around the accumulation of work and pension
The system allowing to combine, under no conditions, salaried activity and retirement pension was introduced in January 2009. Thus, it allowed about 60,000 people to improve their lives, by...
3 January 2011
Poland: 5.24% minimum wage increase on January 1, 2011
This 5.24% minimum wage increase should affect a few thousand workers. These are mostly low-skilled or disabled workers. PLN 1,386 gross (about €347) amount to approximately PLN 1,000 after tax...
3 January 2011
Suspension of the information thread, December 24th-January 2nd
We are taking advantage of this slow period in social news to take a little break. The information thread will be suspended on the night of December 23rd until the morning of Januaery 3rd. The...
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23 December 2010
Latvia: social partners disapprove of fiscal reforms adopted within the framework of the 2011 budget
Employees’ social contributions up by 2% in 2011. Employees’ social contributions will increase from currently 9% to 11% of gross wages, while employers’ social contributions rate will remain at...
23 December 2010
Sweden: new sectoral agreement in communications provides for 2.9% wage increase
A central agreement that fits with market reality. Several unions, SEKO (workers’ unions in, notably, the energy, postal, telecommunications, traffic, road and transportation sectors), ST (union...
23 December 2010
Estonia: unions demand minimum wage increase and social budgets
Too much flexibility, not enough security. The Estonian Trade Union Confederation (EAKL) has recently been drawing attention to several problems. In October, it published a study named...
23 December 2010
Portugal: minimum wage will increase to EUR500 in 2011, but gradually
Gradual increase. Minimum wage in Portugal is going to increase by €10 a month on January 1, 2011, for a total of €485 a month (+5.3% with inflation at 2.2%). Then, it will be increased again in...
22 December 2010
Germany: retail trade prepares for the introduction of minimum wage in the first 2011 quarter
Around €8 an hour. Minimum wage in retail trade? No one was expecting this, even though the social partners have been talking about it since 2008. Josef Sanktjohanser, leader of HDE, confirmed...
22 December 2010
EU: second-phase consultation on the working time directive
Clearly stating that the existence of a European framework on working time will not be questioned, and that the regulations can’t remain as it is, the Commission presents the two possible choices...
21 December 2010
Spain: Catalonian Juan Rosell elected as the new President of the CEOE employers’ organization
Catalonian entrepreneur Juan Rosell was elected with 444 votes in favor (i.e. 62.5% of voters) as opposed to 247 for Santiago Herrero, the other candidate for the Presidency of the CEOE employers’...
21 December 2010
Germany: unions’ view of the bill transposing the EWC directive
In charge of transposing into its legal order, by January 5, 2011, the new Community directive on European Works Councils (2009/38, see our dispatch No. 081026), the German government adopted, on...
21 December 2010
EU: focus on the work done by the group of experts on the implementation of the new EWC directive
Established with a view to “avoiding any contradictions between the various national systems” and providing a single answer to the questions of interpretation raised by Directive 2009/38, known as...
21 December 2010
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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...
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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...
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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: a high-tension start to the social and political year
The German government must finalize its major reforms (pension funding, corporate competitiveness, and labor law) while the chancellor’s popularity hits an all-time low and three regional...
26 August 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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Sweden: IF Metall union forced to end industrial dispute with Tesla
The news. After three years of conflict, the Swedish union IF Metall announced it would suspend its strike actions against Tesla starting Wednesday, August 19, after the American automaker...
26 August 2026