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Netherlands: government envisions encouraging employees change careers after a certain number of years performing arduous work
wants to reform the labor market from top to bottom to avoid people who are physically or mentally exhausted at the end of their career. The goal is to ensure there will be no exceptions when...
21 September 2009
Great Britain: TUC’s annual congress focused on economic policy
C union was held in Liverpool on September 14-17. Unions called for a new policy protecting jobs, pensions and the middle classes. Gordon Brown promised he would protect jobs in the public sector...
21 September 2009
Great Britain: paternity leave extended in 2011
Agreed effort towards fathers. Initially, the government had planned to extend maternity leave from 39 to 52 weeks at the same time as increasing paternity rights, which will allow parents to...
18 September 2009
Brazil: auto workers at Sao Paulo get a pay raise used as a goal by other metalworkers on strike
union obtained a 6.53% wage increase – higher than inflation – for the 53,000 workers of the car plants in Sao Paulo. However, the new collective agreement doesn’t affect workers...
18 September 2009
Denmark: unions first in line against social dumping
ions have been involved, for two weeks, with the embargo of a construction site in the city of Valby (Copenhagen) to obtain a collective agreement for the twelve posted polish workers...
18 September 2009
Great Britain: CWU threatens with national strike
Wildcat strikes throughout the country. Since June 19, 2009, there have been 34 days of strike, from southern England to northern Scotland, in over 235 Royal Mail establishments. The last...
17 September 2009
EU: the social agenda presented by Jose Manuel Barroso, reelected as the head of the European Commission
Social dumping. Mentioned in his political trends, the notion of basic social rights of workers took, within the last ten days before his investiture, a new dimension in the candidate’s words. “We...
17 September 2009
Italy: Fiom-CGIL confirms intention to launch a national strike in metalworking on October 9
ccanica employers’ federation rejected the proposition made by the Fiom-CGIL, largest metalworkers’ union, to conclude a temporary agreement to avoid the adoption of a separate...
16 September 2009
Portugal: new act introduces new tax system for golden parachutes
(No. 100/09) introduces a special tax system for managers’ benefits if they leave the company earlier than expected. It also amends corporations’ tax code to introduce a 35% tax for...
16 September 2009
EU: BusinessEurope wrote a note on the impact of the new EWC directive on existing agreements
ch led to the new revised EWC directive, the European social partners are taking care of after-sale services by making their lawyer work on the effects of the new text. The European Trade Union...
15 September 2009
EU: ECJ rules that employees whose sick leave overlaps with annual leave set early can take the latter some other time
Facts. In the case brought before the Court, the claimant asked his employer for a new period of paid leave because he was on sick leave due to an industrial accident which took place shortly...
15 September 2009
Spain: Supreme Court decision makes mass layoffs more flexible
h 18, 2009, aimed at “harmonizing case laws,” the social chamber of the supreme court set the principle according to which the opening of a procedure for mass layoffs (employment...
15 September 2009
General Motors: Magna’s takeover of Opel creates fear
d by the German government for the recovery of the German carmaker Opel bring fears of a restructuring program affecting, at first, employees in Belgium, Spain and Hungary. On Monday, September...
15 September 2009
Netherlands: for the first time, unions are going to discuss the wages of ING’s managers
ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands, agreed they would talk, in October, about huge wages within the bank, as part of the extension to December 31, 2011 of the current collective agreement...
15 September 2009
Mexico: university study shows that young skilled Mexican workers are fleeing
rs is blaming employers for not taking advantage of the full potential of the country’s workforce. Their study shows that young Mexicans in proportions which have never been seen before...
15 September 2009
EU: tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote for the investiture of Jose Manuel Barroso, who is trying to win as many votes as possible over
should invest Jose Manuel Barroso as Chairman of the European Commission. Last week, the applicant to succeed himself was heard by political groups to present his program and try to win over MEPs...
15 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...
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
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