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Austria: employment restarting stirs up the debate on flexible working time
New recruitments, less work. In 2008 and 2009, the Austrian economy cut nearly 45,000 jobs. However, with the recovery, statisticians from the Employment Agency (Arbeitsmarktservice – AMS) think...
1 July 2010
Great Britain: unions are not really harvesting the fruit of ten years of “union organising”
The most sophisticated and sustained strategy has been that of ‘union organising’ which has its origins in the renewal strategies developed by unions in Australia and the United States. It began...
1 July 2010
Romania: self-employed workers to pay social contributions
16.5%. As of July 1, 2010, people with income from independent activities will by contributions to social insurances, in the amount of 16.5% of their income, like every other employee. This...
30 June 2010
EU: social agenda of the Belgian Presidency
Within the Council, Belgium is traditionally with the interventionist States on the social sphere. Thus, the Presidency’s program has a very comprehensive social agenda, which doesn’t neglect a...
30 June 2010
Netherlands: regional mobility centers are a success
Over the first four months of the year, the mobility centers (mobiliteitcentra) have seen an additional 44,000 jobseekers and helped 4,200 of them find a job within three months after layoff. This...
30 June 2010
Italy: SMEs social partners in the Vicenza province signed the first protocol on regional bargaining
This is the first agreement of this kind in Italy. Apindustria Vicenza for employers and CGIL, Cisl and Uil for unions signed, on June 11th, a protocol encouraging and supervising local collective...
29 June 2010
Germany: the decline in the workforce reserve by 2025 can only be absorbed with training (IAB)
Women, older workers and migrants don’t compensate demographic ageing. In the study it presented on Thursday, June 24th, the IAB points to a major decline in “underemployment” in the long run...
29 June 2010
Great Britain: government limits the number of non-European immigrant workers
New immigration policy. Home Secretary Theresa May announced this temporary immigration limit on June 28th. The limit was created to avoid increased applications before the permanent limit in...
29 June 2010
Corporate practices: Nordea Finans, the first bank to get the Swedish health label
Give workplaces health certifications. The idea of giving businesses health certifications dates back to 2003 and came from the leader of SEKO (sectoral union in services and communication), Janne...
29 June 2010
Germany: nearly one in ten businesses doesn’t apply mandatory sectoral minimum wage
One in ten businesses cheats. “If we agree on a rule, it has to be applied” declared Ursula von der Leyen when commenting the evaluation presented by the monitoring unit of the German customs...
29 June 2010
Great Britain: increasing victimization of union activists, especially in public services
The significance of each victimisation is not just the individual activist concerned and their job and livelihood. Rather, it also the impact of undermining collective protection for the union...
29 June 2010
Romania: since it can’t cut pensions, the government is increasing VAT from 19 to 24%
No pension cuts. No pension cuts, just a VAT increase. This is the latest development of the difficult anticrisis measures the Romanian government has to take. On Friday, June 25th, the...
28 June 2010
EU: energy social partners request structured dialog with the Commission on the social impact of energy policies
Structured dialog. The representatives of public service workers, the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) and...
28 June 2010
Germany: end of the Cockpit/Lufthansa conflict
Review of the group’s collective agreement. Cockpit spokesman Jörg Handwerg told Planet Labor that he was satisfied with the compromise reached after the conciliation procedure launched in early...
28 June 2010
Italy: great turnout for the general strike the CGIL launched against the government’s economic maneuver
“We’re not an uncomplaining country” declared Susanna Camusso, Deputy Secretary-General of the CGIL, during the interminable demonstration in Bologna (100,000+ participants according to the CGIL)...
28 June 2010
Statkraft: European leader in renewable energy establishes a EWC
Owned by the Norwegian State, Statkraft is the biggest renewable energy company in Europe, especially for the production of water power. Based in Oslo, the company employs 3,400 people in 20...
25 June 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
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...