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Morocco: Abdel-Ilah Jennane, Executive Director at the Diorh-IRH firm, says that”most often, moving failures in Morocco are based on little things”
tor of the Moroccan human resources firm Diorh-IRH, gives a few keys for a successful move and mentions the rise in skilled Moroccan workers’ expectations. (Ref. 100365) Which advice would...
Germany: Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn complete their data protection systems and turn over a new leaf on past scandals
New “Committee on Data Protection” for DB. Even though Deutsche Bahn is facing a new corruption and bribery scandal, this time affecting a subsidiary, DB International, the company announced the...
Air France/KLM: renewal of the agreement on the EWC
The protocol for the group European works council of Air France KLM, renegotiated in 2006, already contained, anticipatory changes introduced by the new EWC directive. The transnational decision...
Russia: new federation of manufacturing unions
The FNPR, a sectoral and social partnership union. Heir to soviet unionism, with its 27 million members – i.e. a great majority of the 46% of union members in the country – the Federation of...
Air France/KLM: framework agreement to supervise the European-wide reorganization of sales agencies in airports
With the prospect of changing the role of sales agencies in airports (ATO), which will follow different modalities and rhythms, Air France KLM’s European group committee (CGE) and management think...
Germany: 3rd interim employers’ federation (iGZ) signed minimum wage agreement with the German Confederation of Trade Unions
For the second year in a row, the introduction of universal minimum wage was one of the central claims of the German Confederation of Trade Unions during Labor Day demonstrations. However, since...
United States: a woman at the head of the powerful SEIU union
A growing trade union. Until now, Mary Kay Henry, 52, was in charge of the organization’s health unit. She got promoted when Andrew Stern, charismatic and controversial leader of SEIU, who...
Denmark: experts say nanotechnologies could be as dangerous to workers as asbestos
Booming in Denmark, nanotechnologies and nano-products is revolutionizing a wide range of industrial products and processes, from food packaging to surface treatment, to the textile, chemical...
Caterpillar: unions lay the foundations for a global union network
Tense dialog with the management. 70 American, European and Japanese Caterpillar representatives met on April 28-29 under the aegis of the IMF in Echirolles, Izere, France. The aim of this meeting...
Great Britain: unions set the creation of green jobs as their priority but forget the fight on working conditions
The key policy demand from the union movement upon the three major political parties in the current general election has been job creation. In the current context of unemployment rising to 2.5m...
Germany: Hans Böckler foundation reveals that the European Company status isn’t used to reduce employee representativeness
134 “real” SEs. The analysis presented on April 23rd by the legal department of the Hans Böckler foundation is based on recent data (March 2010) about the adoption of the SE status in the EU since...
Norway: unions want to debate the issue of support to employees caring for elderly parents during the ongoing negotiations
Worrying prospects. For several years now, all studies on the issue converge. A study carried out by the Institute for Applied International Studies of Oslo (FAFO) in 2007 showed that a little...
Great Britain: Royal Mail workers say yes to the agreement signed between the management and the CWU
CWU satisfied. “This is a strong ballot result for a strong deal” declared Dave Ward, CWU deputy general secretary. “And we're delighted that our members have fully supported this hard fought for...
EU: new strategy and adapted workers for green cars
40 actions. “The global car fleet is predicted to grow from 800 million to 1.6 billion vehicles by 2030. This doubling of the global car fleet calls for a step change in technology to ensure...
EU: the Parliament’s committee on social affairs changes its mind regarding the working time of self-employed drivers
Rejecting the draft directive. The European Commission’s proposal to amend the 2002 road transport working time directive was rejected again, on April 28rth, by the European Parliament’s committee...
Sweden: after 11 days of strike, the paper workers’ union gets raises up to 3.5% for low wages
Tough negotiating conditions. The strike was tough and had an important number of followers. On April 5th, the union sent a slowdown notice (refusal to work overtime) for the entire paper...
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: a high-tension start to the social and political year
The German government must finalize its major reforms (pension funding, corporate competitiveness, and labor law) while the chancellor’s popularity hits an all-time low and three regional...
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Sweden: IF Metall union forced to end industrial dispute with Tesla
The news. After three years of conflict, the Swedish union IF Metall announced it would suspend its strike actions against Tesla starting Wednesday, August 19, after the American automaker...