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France: agreement in metalworking to improve the forecast management of employment and skills in the sector
This agreement is in line with the cross-industry agreement signed in 2008 on that theme. In the preamble, the social partners specify that it doesn’t have to do with the need to reorganize the...
19 May 2010
Great Britain: businesses start lacking skilled applicants
High demand in skilled workers. Nearly 700 employers from all sectors and all sizes, for a total of 2.4 million workers, were surveyed by the CBI, which recently published a new report entitled...
19 May 2010
Argentina: metalworkers get a 26.5% wage increase
The collective agreement in the metal sector in Argentina provides for a first 15% wage increase applied retroactively on April 1, 2010, a second 11.5% increase on July 1st and until March 31...
19 May 2010
Netherlands: employers accuse unions of giving into “extremism”
The two most powerful unions in the Netherlands, affiliated with the FNV, are worrying employers. The offensive tactic adopted by the FNV and Allies (active in industry) for five years, and by the...
18 May 2010
Germany: reelected at the head of the DGB, Michael Sommer calls for a “new social order”
For statutory hourly minimum wage amounting to €8.5. In 2006, during the last congress of the DGB, at the time divided between those in favor of a pragmatic attitude and those in favor of a...
18 May 2010
Greece: overview of the social consequences of the crisis
Because of this bankruptcy, the new Greek government had to implement a drastic severity policy, with a neoliberal background, with the support of the European Union, the European Central Bank and...
17 May 2010
Great Britain: the government coalition’s social program
In answering this question, there is a need to stress the balance between change and continuity. So while there are many changes (see below), these are relatively minor ones and they take place on...
17 May 2010
Morocco: interview with Mohamed Horani, head of the General Confederation of Enterprises in Morocco (CGEM)
the General Confederation of Enterprises in Morocco (CGEM) for one year. At 57, this engineer co-founded and is the CEO of the electronic banking company, Hightech Payment Systems (HPS), where 90%...
17 May 2010
Italy: Milan province signs agreement with the social partners for extraordinary employment support program
Over 1,000 workers affected and a budget exceeding €6m; these are the important figures of the “agreement to support employment, the revival of the economic productive system and against the...
17 May 2010
Portugal: government announces new severity measures to put public accounts back on their feet by 2013
On a diet. Portugal’s Prime Minister, José Socrates, announced an additional series of severity measures to speed up the return to balanced State accounts in 2013. The Stability and Growth Program...
17 May 2010
Italy: five major SME organizations gather within the R.eTe.- Imprese Italia alliance
Give an “identity, a single voice and joint, therefore stronger, representativeness” to small and medium-size enterprises to “modernize the representation of businesses to modernize the Italian...
14 May 2010
Spain: José Luis Zapatero explained his austerity program to the social partners
The controversial points of the austerity program are the following:
13 May 2010
EU: what framework for CSR strategies in trade businesses?
Credibility. “The public credibility of the existing CSR schemes to a large extend depends on union acceptance and engagement” declared Alke Boessiger, Uni-Commerce representative, at the...
13 May 2010
Luxembourg: after the tripartite talks failure, the debate on the social model in Luxembourg is postponed until the autumn
Index. On May 5th, the government proposed to adjust “the index” by modifying the shopping basket which is used as a reference for the indexation (neutralization of the regulated prices, of oil...
12 May 2010
Romania: severe cut on public spending
Minus 25% on wages, minus 15% on pensions. The Romanian government just presented a drastic severity program to prevent the economy from losing control. Indeed, the measures implemented are...
12 May 2010
Germany: working and pay conditions are still uneven in the east and the west
Between light and shade. 284-pages long, the 2010 edition of the WSI’s handbook (WSI-Tarifhandbuch) is dedicated to the evolution of collective agreements signed in eastern Germany. And the...
12 May 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...
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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...
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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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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025