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Great Britain: flexible work for all from the first day on the job?
Extended rights. Current flexible working rights (flexible hours, work from home) are only available to parents of children under 16 and people taking care of dependent relatives, after at least...
3 February 2010
Italy: unions confirm strike on February 3 after Fiat met with unions and government
The meeting between Fiat, the government and unions, held at the headquarters of the Department for Economic Development on Friday, January 29, didn’t reassure unions, mobilized since the...
2 February 2010
EU: MEPs request better acknowledgement of the impact of the economic crisis on women
Planet Labor, February 17, 2010, No. 100143 – www.planetlabor.com
2 February 2010
Belgium: agreement on working and wage conditions for workers that aren’t covered by a joint committee
Residual committee. In Belgium, employers and union organizations negotiate working and pay conditions within the framework of sectoral joint committees. Yet, CP 100, created in 1074, is a...
2 February 2010
Netherlands: new collective agreement in metalworking and electrotechnical engineering
n the heavy industry in the Netherlands will keep enjoying early retirement at 62 thanks to the new collective agreement signed on January 25 by the FME employers’ organization and the FNV...
1 February 2010
Belgium: workers march and question businesses’ notional interests
Tense social context. These past few weeks, announcements of mass layoffs poured in Belgium. Opel Antwerp is going to close, putting 2,600 jobs at risk. In Jupille, next to Liege, AB InBev unions...
1 February 2010
Germany: Federal Labor Court condemns booming low wages and thinks about removing “tariff unity” in businesses
The annual press conference of the Federal Labor Court was tainted with the economic crisis. Statistics and data Mrs. Schmidt presented on January 27 confirmed that.
1 February 2010
Romania: government prolongs the temporary unemployment system established in 2009
ystem the Romanian government established in 2009 to protect employees in ailing businesses should finally be extended in 2010, following union pressure. Temporarily laid off employees will keep...
1 February 2010
EU: joint declaration from insuring social partners on the sector’s demographic challenges
ialog committee held on January 26, Uni Finance (unions), Bipar (European Federation of Insurance Intermediaries), Amice (Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives) and the CEA...
1 February 2010
Great Britain: fathers can take six months’ paternity leave if mother shortens her maternity leave
ers may be entitled to a six-month paternity leave during the second six months of the child’s life if the mother goes back to work. Three out of these six months will be paid. This measure...
1 February 2010
Spain: government wants to bring retirement age from 65 to 67
f Minister approved a document containing elements to reform the pension scheme. Now, these proposals have to be sent to the Parliamentary Committee of the Toledo Pact which monitors the...
1 February 2010
France: Goodyear Dunlop to stop restructuring of Amiens Nord site until EWC consultation is complete
ary 27, the Court of Appeal of Versailles suspended the implementation of the restructuring plan of the Amiens Nord establishment until the consultation of the EWC is complete. This decision...
1 February 2010
Germany: Minister for Employment Affairs Ursula von der Leyen presents draft jobcenter reform
Unconstitutional mixed
structures.
Flagship reform of the “2010 agenda” of the former green and red Schroder administration, social welfare,
managed by towns, and long-term
unemployment...
29 January 2010
Netherlands: government wants to prevent postal firms from practicing social dumping at all costs
The government appealed to the ruling rendered on January 5 which provided that the State wasn’t competent to force, via a regulation, the Sandd and Selektmail firms to hire 80% of its workers...
29 January 2010
Italy: CGIL declares general strike for March 12
“The need to face the economic crisis and its impact on employment, the urgency to act at once to bring balance to the tax burden in favor of salaried workers and pensioners and amend the...
29 January 2010
Great Britain: job offer, internship or training for every young person out of work for six months
Make sure young people won’t pay for the recession. This program, entitled “Young Person’s Guarantee” is part of the “Backing Young Britain” program that already helped around 100,000 young people...
29 January 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...
31 October 2025
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
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