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Luxembourg: tense tripartite negotiations
Employers’ claims. Created in the 70s in the middle of the European steel crisis, these “crisis” negotiations take place within a “national coordination committee” which will render its...
29 March 2010
EU: public consultation on the review of the Statute on the European Company
On September 10, 2009, the European Commission listed 439 SEs in Europe. The Czech Republic had the highest number, 137, followed by Germany, 91, the Netherlands, 22, Great Britain, 16, France...
29 March 2010
Italy: CGIL announces 5,746,167 members, with a majority of pensioners
“We’re the biggest social power in Italy, and excluding us from negotiations and agreements goes against a majority of workers and pensions” said CGIL general secretary Gugliemo Epifani when...
29 March 2010
France: multi-industry agreement on harassment and violence at work about to be signed
A concrete framework to fight against harassment and violence at work. During their last meeting on the subject on March 26, the trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC, FO and CGT) and employers’...
28 March 2010
Great Britain: minimum wage increase and action on default retirement in the 2010 budget
Default retirement. The Chancellor confirmed that the government is decided to scrap or raise the retirement age (currently 65). The final decision will be made this summer. Some employers and...
26 March 2010
Germany: to softly regulate their workforce, businesses make their reclassification companies durable and embark on temporary work
Vivento; from reclassification pole to corporate consultancy to temporary work. On March 22, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and the administration of the Land of Saarland signed a cooperation agreement for...
25 March 2010
Italy: energy and oil social partners reach a unitary agreement for the renewal of their CCN
After electricity (see our dispatch No. 100211) and rubber and plastic (see our dispatch No. 100246), the social partners in oil and energy (Filcem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil for unions and...
25 March 2010
Great Britain: final Parliamentary stage for the Equality Bill
Amendments. Here are the key amendments as regards labor adopted by the Lords after their third and last reading of the bill.
25 March 2010
Germany: new step towards the introduction of sectoral minimum wage in surveillance
High wage increase in eastern Germany. Verdi says this collective agreement will first benefit security officers in new Länder, who will see their wages increase of nearly 33%. With these new...
24 March 2010
Sweden: new agreement for industry and chemistry employees and executives questions usual negotiating schemes
New agreement for employees and executives. On March 20, Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer announced that they reached an agreement with employers in the industry, chemistry and new technologies...
24 March 2010
EU: Commission recommends adjusting the working time directive to new work organizations and workers’ expectations
The communication on the revision of the working time directive, adopted by the College of Commissioners today, March 24, launches the first phase of consultation of the European social partners...
24 March 2010
Austria: postgraduates are plenty but overqualified
Paradoxically, the study, entitled “Between a Shortage of Tertiary Graduates and Precarious Employment,” published by a research institute answering to the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKO)...
24 March 2010
International: International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) to improve union networks in transnational businesses
Aim of the strategy. In December 2009, the IMF’s executive committee decided to improve union presence to counterweight businesses’ managements. The strategy is aimed to the “creation and...
23 March 2010
Germany: Lufthansa pilots threaten to strike again after Easter
This time concerned with not raising the public’s hackles like in February, Cockpit said that the four-day strike would be after the Easter break, between April 13th and April 16th. The union...
23 March 2010
Argentina: bill on telework about to be completed
Legal framework for telework. The Argentinean Parliament is shortly going to receive a bill on the regulation of telework, a system which has gained many followers in this country over the years...
23 March 2010
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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...
26 August 2026
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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...
26 August 2026