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EU: European and international wood unions adopt a social and environmental action plan
Pessimists. The unions’ forecasts as to the impact of the crisis on employment in 2010 are quite pessimistic: 2 million jobs are at risk this year. Yet, the EFBWW and the BWI think that some...
1 March 2010
Italy: social partners in cement, lime and plaster unitarily renew their collective agreement
Fillea CGIL, Filca-Cisl, and Feneal Uil (unions) and the Federmaco employers’ organization signed a unitary agreement on February 18 to renew the national collective agreement in cement, lime and...
1 March 2010
Netherlands: positive start for the “I Can” campaign helping jobseekers rethink their skills
A survey carried out among 565 people by the Department for Labor and Social Affairs shows than one in four viewers on www.ikkan.nl/talentenvertaler (I can/talent translator) finds more...
1 March 2010
Denmark: pending reform of the staff representation structures in charge of safety at work to adapt them to the needs of modern businesses
“More flexible rules, adapted to modern businesses’ everyday” and to a modern labor market for representation structures in charge of health and safety at work: this is how Labor Minister Inger...
1 March 2010
Deutsche Telekom: in spite of Verdi’s support, its American counterpart, CWA, is having trouble asserting itself at T Mobile
“We split up the roles” explained Ed Sabol, permanent CWA member. “Ver.di bargains with the management, CWA organizes the ranks.” T Mobile’s stores and call centers in the US are not open to...
1 March 2010
Portugal: creation of the Portuguese Confederation of Construction and Real Estate
Defending the sector. The Confederation of Construction and Real Estate (Confederação da Construção e do Imobiliário, CCI), gathers the sector’s employer organizations and trade associations. It...
26 February 2010
Italy: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Prevention sounds the alarm on rising stress at work
Stress at work is becoming one of the main dangers to workers’ health: 43% of employees have psychosocial unrest on the workplace. This is the observation of the National Institute for...
25 February 2010
Opel/Vauxhall: six metalworking union leaders and EMF agree on claims for the group’s restructuring
February 23 by the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF), which gathered union leaders from Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, signed a declaration asking...
25 February 2010
Italy: unions agree to the three-year program on employment of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL-BNP Paribas)
Maintaining benefits. The coordination also said that the elements of understanding of the 2007-09 industrial plan were included as such and that the rules and criteria defining geographical...
25 February 2010
Great Britain: government issues guide on the new fit note for sick employees who can work
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25 February 2010
EU: MEPs from the Committee on Women’s Rights still want to extend maternity leave to 20 weeks
omen’s Rights adopted, on Tuesday, February 23, with 19 votes for, 13 against and 1 abstention, the report developed by socialist MEP Edite Estrela on the draft revision of the maternity...
24 February 2010
Spain: mild support for the demonstrations against the pension reform
on February 23 by Workers’ Commissions and UGT in the country’s largest cities to protest against the draft pension reform were relatively successful. Unions say that 200,000 people...
24 February 2010
Portugal: closer monitoring of businesses appealing to short-time working
mprove control over the application of short-time working in businesses. Unions have been asking for this measure, regularly criticizing abusive appeal to “lay-off.” (Ref. 100177)...
24 February 2010
Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign an agreement for the renewal of the CCN
ental leave, new layoff pay, better monitoring of the health of night workers, new advantages for shift workers, and a new equal pay authority; these are the key novelties of the agreement for the...
24 February 2010
Netherlands: key reforms suspended because of the government’s downfall
lkenende’s center left government on February 20 is going to leave several reforms unfinished. The first is the increase of retirement age to 67, which the Party for Freedom, PVV, run by...
24 February 2010
Germany: following its pilots’ strike, Lufthansa’s management demands legal intervention to guarantee tariff unity
ays, the strike organized by Lufthansa’s pilots only lasted for 24 hours. Cockpit, the airline pilots’ union, and Lufthansa representatives announced, on the evening of Monday...
23 February 2010
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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
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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