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Austria: GPA-djp union undertakes offensive against the “avoidance of collective agreements and laws” in call centers
According to the GPA-djp, the approximately 250 call centers in Austria employ around 25,000 people and 5,000-6,000 free agents considered as self-employed workers. The number of free agents is...
24 June 2010
France Telecom: global works council for the French telco
Employing 181,000 people throughout the world, 43% of them outside of France and 12% outside European, according to the communiqué released by the group, France Telecom-Orange wanted to create “a...
24 June 2010
EU: social partners’ answer to the consultation on working time
After years of negotiations (which, in the end, failed) on the revision of the 2003 working time directive, the social partners have to express themselves about the EU’s future courses on the...
24 June 2010
United States: UAW concerned with Toyota’s American employees
The auto crisis severely affected unions last year. Today, the powerful UAW only has 355,000 members left, like in the 1940s. At its glory time, in 1979, the UAW had 1.5 million members.
24 June 2010
EU: ETUC and BusinessEurope’s joint interpretation of some of the provisions of the new EWC directive
In the letter sent to the European Commission on June 14th, ETUC Confederal Secretary Catalene Passchier and Jørgen Rønnest, chairman of BusinessEurope’s Social Affairs Committee, explain their...
23 June 2010
Germany: Federal Labor Court cancels the principle of “tariff unity” in businesses
Several rival agreements can now co-exist. Reviewing its case law, the Federal Labor Court rejected, in its decree (Ref. 10 AS 2/10 and 10 AS 3/10) the principle of “tariff unity,” which used to...
23 June 2010
Italy: workers voted yes to the separate agreement on the restructuring of Fiat’s Pomigliano site
The overwhelming majority Fiat wanted to go through with its restructuring plan for the Pomigliano d’Arco site, subject to a separate agreement signed on June 15th by the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil...
23 June 2010
Austria: government and social partners agree to force businesses to publish men and women’s wages
It is notably the publication by the Department for Women of the “Women’s Report” (Frauenbericht), the first in 15 years, that motivated the social partners to bargain with the government for an...
23 June 2010
Great Britain: the conflict between British Airways and Unite keeps dragging on
With no further meetings planned, the Unite union – which represents the cabin crew – is planning to organise a further ballot for strike action which – if producing a ‘yes’ vote - would allow...
23 June 2010
Spain: commentary on the decree-law reforming the labor market
During the last two years, unions and employers have been trying to reach an agreement on the labor market reform. After a decade of impressive economic growth and decline of unemployment levels...
23 June 2010
Germany: DGB demands a review of the bill on the protection of employees’ private data
The DGB finds this bill excruciating. In November 2009, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice created a stir by announcing that they were working on a bill on the protection of...
22 June 2010
Greece: women are the first victims of the pension reform
Strict application of the equality principle. The government justifies those changes by the ECJ’s sentence for failure to respect the fundamental principle of gender equality. After the...
22 June 2010
Romania: union leader quits after failed mobilization against severity plan
Take on responsibility. The leader of the BNS (National Union Bloc), Dumitru Costin, handed in his resignation last week, following unions’ failure to prevent the introduction of severity...
22 June 2010
International: charter to increase the financial sector’s responsibility
In the document adopted earlier this month, the representatives of the Uni-Finance union reminded the need to guarantee stability in financial establishment to safeguard the stability of the real...
21 June 2010
United States: businesses where work is good do better on Wall Street
Every year, Great Place to Work looks at 350-450 businesses. Thus, last year, they surveyed 81,000 employees to better understand businesses’ culture and the trust employees have in their company...
21 June 2010
Belgium: merger between the CSC’s construction and energy-chemistry federations
The largest federation within the CSC. The 234,000 members of CSC Bâtiment-Industrie, which gathers workers in construction, cement, glass, wood, graphics and paper, and the 50,000 members of CSC...
21 June 2010
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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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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
19 December 2025
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
15 December 2025