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Inditex: international agreement promoting decent labor and collective rights
The agreement signed by Uni Global Union and Inditex on October 2 was prepared in Spain. The two major Spanish trade federations, CHTJ-UGT and Fecoht-CCOO, which initiated the text, rejoice with...
5 October 2009
China: the talent war is getting a face lift
Turnover is dropping. It is around 10% now whereas it amounted to 45% in Shanghai during full growth. Figures are difficult to establish but it is sure that, during this crisis, between...
5 October 2009
Italy: CGIL launches fall mobilizations
“Inappropriate” government policy. Gathered in Rome on September 30, the CGIL’s general management said that the Finance Act presented to the social partners was “inappropriate.” It mostly points...
5 October 2009
Great Britain: government announces new employment measures
Long-term unemployment. Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, announced that jobs created are going to be trebled via Employment Partnerships which tie businesses and the...
5 October 2009
Germany: new government liberal party brings layoff protection and minimum wage back in the debate
Liberals in control. According to some conservative leaders, the arrival of liberals to the government shouldn’t lead to a “social freeze.” This is at least what Jürgen Rüttgers, conservative...
5 October 2009
Denmark: the blockade at the Valbi construction site settled with collective agreements signed for the posted Polish workers
Winning blockade. The massive mobilization from unemployment
members of 3 F Bygge, Jord og Miljøarbejdernes Fagforening (BJMF) and of other
LO unions who refused to work or to deliver equipment...
2 October 2009
Great Britain: labor law amendments enforced on October 1
Minimum wage increase. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) announced that, as of October 1, national minimum wage would go from £5.73 (€6.25) an hour to £5.80 (€6.33) for...
2 October 2009
Luxembourg: interprofessional agreement on harassment and violence at work
Definition. The agreement says that “moral harassment happens when a person from the company repeatedly and/or deliberately makes faulty activities towards an employee or a manager, leading to the...
1 October 2009
Netherlands: intense negotiations before a bill on retirement at 67
Raising retirement age from 65 to 67 should help the State save €4 billions each year, in a country where the population is ageing and where the birthrate is at half-mast. The Social and Economic...
1 October 2009
Brazil: subcontracting employees in Sao Paulo get a 6.53% wage increase
On Monday, September 28, most of the 60,000 metalworkers in Sao Paulo, on strike for ten days, obtained a 6.53% wage increase, i.e. a real 2% increase after removing inflation, and a bonus...
1 October 2009
EU: NGOs and unions join forces to introduce environmental and social issues into the European strategy
Common purpose. The schedules of the ETUC and environmental
NGOs will be tightly linked for the next few months. The international
conference on climate change in December in Copenhagen, puts...
30 September 2009
Sweden: employers and union confederations reveal their goals before the renewal of many collective agreements in 2010
Unions don’t want employees to “pay” anymore. The current context isn’t very prone to unions. Since the economic crisis began, they already had to make numerous sacrifices, like Scania’s employees...
30 September 2009
Netherlands: fewer layoffs settled at court
From 75,000 in 2003, the number of layoffs
challenged in court went down to less than 21,000 in 2008, in spite of the
crisis. Indeed, according to the study commissioned by the Ministry of...
30 September 2009
Denmark: historical ruling on equal pay
“Historical victory for equal pay.” This is how Gita Gruning, leader of the Teknisk Landsforbund union (technicians and designers), qualified the decree rendered on September 24 by the Danish...
30 September 2009
EU: MEPs remove their proposition to include self-employed drivers into the scope of the working time directive for truck drivers
The wind has turned within the European Parliament’s Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. MEPs finally rejected the report recommending the extension of the 2002 directive on adjusting...
29 September 2009
Germany: IG-Metall says the crisis and environmental turn compel to rethink metalworkers’ working time
Massive and durable decline in employment load. “We have to find new working time schemes allowing a) to answer individual flexibility needs and b) to take account of workers’ wage situation” the...
29 September 2009
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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...
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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...
15 October 2025
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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
15 December 2025