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Brazil: Renault employees on strike to increase profit-sharing
The 3,500 metalworkers of Renault’s Curitiba factory, in the Parana State (south of the country), approved, on Monday, May 17th, the continuation of the strike launched on Friday, may 14th. The...
12 May 2010
Great Britain: the train drivers’ union, Aslef, makes a bid to run the franchise for the East Coast rail
Aslef intends to make a bid as a people’s cooperative to show that the line can be better run than by a conventional profit-seeking company. The cooperative will be owned and run by its members in...
12 May 2010
Belgium: new flexible work organization at Audi
Stick closer to demand. “When you start producing a new model, demand is extremely high, everyone wants the brand new fashionable car. After this production peak, usually, demand slows down, so...
11 May 2010
Netherlands: burnout cases are escalating
According to the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases (Centrum voor Beroepsziekten, NCvB), an organization that publishes national statistics and organizes targeted monitoring campaigns...
11 May 2010
Germany: IG-Metall and employers want to renew minimum wage in electrical engineering
A procedure renewed every time. This sector is mostly made up of SMEs, i.e. around 76,000 businesses employing nearly 310,000 people. They are mostly electrical engineers, IT experts and...
11 May 2010
Russia: quick overview of industrial relations
Legislation really favorable to employees. The Labor Code adopted in 2001 guarantees “social partnership” via privileges granted to “pan-Russian” unions (covering a majority of the federal...
11 May 2010
Italy: division at the end of the CGIL’s 16th Congress
The 16th CGIL Congress, organized in Rimini between May 5 and May 8 under the catch phrase “to defend work and free rights,” was tainted with the crisis, but not the economic crisis alone. Indeed...
10 May 2010
Great Britain: union alliances and users associations to protect jobs in public services in the face of planned budget cuts
there is currently some elementary appreciation that to effectively fight the cuts and privatisation agenda that the new government will implement in the public sector alliances of the providers...
10 May 2010
Corporate Practices: one year later, Scania is learning the lessons from the implementation of the 4-day week as an answer to the economic crisis
An atypical decision necessary to safeguard skills. By deciding to maintain its staff in spite of a major drop in orders, Scania adopted a human resources policy clashing with the idea that...
10 May 2010
OECD: towards an update of guidelines for multinational companies
Global context. After a major consultation, the Member States agreed on a mandate to improve the OECD’s guidelines aimed to promote responsible entrepreneurial behaviors across the world. The...
Bolivia: general strike following the refusal to increase wages beyond 5%
On May 1st, the Bolivian government declared that the wage increase in the public and in the private sector amounted to 5% in 2010 and 3% for the military and the police, and there is no...
7 May 2010
PSA Peugeot Citroën: amendment to the worldwide framework agreement on social responsibility
This amendment was negotiated with the representatives of the international and European metalworkers’ federations (IMF and EMF) in the name of the 90 trade unions present in the 31 countries...
6 May 2010
EU: medium term forecast of skills supply and demand in Europe up to 2020
Modest job creation. The Cedefop’s first observation is clear: by 2020, Europe still won’t have fully recovered from the economic crisis. “Despite indications that world economy is now emerging...
6 May 2010
Great Britain: Alliance Trust, Burberry, IBM and National Grid rewarded for their gender policy
Female FTSE 100 award. Alliance Trust, the investment company, as well as Burberry, won the award for parity in their boards. Within the FTSE 100, they are the ones with most women on their boards...
6 May 2010
International: UN report prepares the ground for an international strategy on businesses and human rights
“Protect, respect and remedy” is based on three independent principles: the State’s duty to prevent human rights abuses committed by third parties, notably businesses; their responsibility to...
Germany: IG-Metall leads new offensive of German unions against temporary work
Launch a general debate to change the law. Sponsored by no less than three former Employment Ministers from the social-democratic and conservative governments of Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and...
5 May 2010
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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...
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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...
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