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Areva, Alstom/Schneider Electric: European negotiation on social guarantees in the framework of the sale of Areva T&D
Social guarantees for T&D employees. The European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) received a unanimous mandate from its members present in the three companies affected by the operation. Thus...
11 March 2010
EU: pending signature of the draft cross-industry agreement on inclusive labor markets
This framework agreement is “based on the principle that ensuring inclusive labor markets implies shared responsibilities of employers, individuals, workers, workers’ and employers’...
10 March 2010
Belgium: Opel Antwerp unions want to look into the possibility to welcome part of the production from other subsidiaries while they find a final solution
m unions rejected their plant’s recovery plan as proposed by Opel. They want to postpone the shutdown of the factory, in exchange for production transfers from Germany and Poland to the...
10 March 2010
Germany: union competition in the temporary sector leads to a high pay raise for employees
Union race. In fact, the BZA employers’ organization announced, on January 26, 2010, that it signed a collective agreement with the DGB for the approximately 200,000 employees of the BZA’s member...
10 March 2010
Corporate practices: Pekkaniska, large Finnish lifting company, is paying employees to improve their health
Unions view the implementation of policies aimed to significantly improve quality of life at work as a necessary requirement for a possible agreement on the extension of careers. However, even...
10 March 2010
Poland: union and employers’ organizations are “renewing” their representativeness
Proven representativeness. Initially, the founding text for union representativeness – Act of July 6, 2001 regarding the tripartite committee and regional social dialog committees – recognized as...
10 March 2010
Great Britain: Royal Mail unions and management sign an agreement on the company’s modernization
Voluntary leaves. After weeks of conflict, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), stepped in, in November, to act as a mediator between Royal Mail and the CWU (see our dispatch...
9 March 2010
Italy: electricity social partners renew national collective agreement with a unitary agreement
“This is a major outcome, achieved thanks to the resoluteness of union organizations which, during these months of difficult negotiations with employers’ organizations and businesses in the...
9 March 2010
EU: ILO thinks that the EU’s case law limiting the right to strike questions the freedom of association protected by international regulations
Facts. The comment of the ILO’s legal experts is included in the international organization’s 2010 report published in late February. It shows that, on October 22, 2008, a BALPA union went to the...
9 March 2010
Great Britain: could businesses have to render accounts on the number of women with managing positions?
This government request is based on the draft Equality Bill currently discussed in Parliament, which will allow positive action in businesses to appoint more women to senior positions. If the...
9 March 2010
Portugal: public aids for businesses training employees on short-time working will now be limited to some sensitive sectors
Objectives. The “Qualification-Employment” program contains measures to fight unemployment by financially supporting the employment/training rotation in the context of temporary reduction of...
8 March 2010
EU: skills and environmental transition at the heart of the 2010 work program of the electricity social partners
Joint declaration. The EPSU, the EMCEF and Eurelectric opened, in 2009, talks around the issue of skills. A toolbox was created to anticipate the transition towards greener production with...
8 March 2010
France: action plan to stop industry’s decline
After the Industry States General gathered, for several months, different roleplayers in manufacturing, the head of State presented, on march 4, an action plan to “redress the French industry...
8 March 2010
EU: permanent adoption of the parental leave directive
This directive gives force of law to the agreement signed by the European social partners (UEAPME, BusinessEurope, CEEP for employers and ETUC for unions) on June 18, 2009, revising their former...
8 March 2010
Italy: Senate permanently approves decree-law reforming labor disputes
“After a very long Parliamentary process, started with the Biagi Act (…), we can finally solve controversy in terms of labor via arbitration;” this is how Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi presented...
7 March 2010
Netherlands: large chocolate producers and retailers commit, with FNV, in favor of “sustainable chocolate”
FNV and Allies general secretary Henk van der Kolk launched this unprecedented initiative, in the form of a “memorandum of understanding” (MoU). This document, which wants Dutch people to only...
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5 March 2010
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In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
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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...
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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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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...
5 November 2025
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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...
20 October 2025