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Germany: IG-Metall wants to reform its structures and focus on recruiting members
ll, the largest trade union in Germany (2.3 million members), announced that his organization was going to change its structure and improve the resources granted to local offices. They will have...
15 September 2009
Germany: substantial conflict could burst between Verdi union and the Deutsche Post
tember 14, 2009 in Berlin, Andrea Kocsis, VP of the Verdi services union, accused the Deutsche Post AG of using the economic crisis as an excuse to attack employees’wages and working...
14 September 2009
Italy: beginning of negotiations between the social partners on employee profit-sharing
distribution of profit to workers” – demanded by Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi to reach a ‘joint opinion’ with the social partners within two months – has been...
14 September 2009
Austria: Austrian Railways (ÖBB) were illegally gathering information on their employees’ health
l of absenteeism, the ÖBB’s personnel service pressured employees to know why they were on sick leave. Classified in the employees’ personal files, such data wasn’t kept...
14 September 2009
Poland: social conflict around the privatization of the ENEA energy group
ing, to privatize the ENEA energy group, relations between the government and the group’s unions have been particularly tense. Unions denounce the conditions of the privatization, in favor...
14 September 2009
Great Britain: government toughens legislation on the recruitment of foreign workers
announced, on September 7, that employers will have to advertise jobs in jobcenters for a month (instead of two weeks) prior to recruiting workers from outside Europe. The goal is to limit the...
14 September 2009
Germany: Supreme Court increases liability for compliance officers
e first time, the Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) condemned a compliance officer to pay a fine for failure to prevent an infringement made by employees. This decision should put more...
14 September 2009
Italy: towards a separate agreement for the renewal of the metalworking CCN
f the metalworking national collective agreement resumed on September 10, the Federmeccanica employers’ federation announced that it would only base the negotiations on the joint platform...
14 September 2009
Germany: Minister for Employment and Social Affairs presents a bill to reduce the gender pay gap
The social-democrat Minister Olaf Scholz introduced a bill on "wage equality" to "protect women against wage discrimination." The bill provides for an extension of WCs' intervention and...
11 September 2009
Spain: unions of the Santander bank propose closing agencies on Saturday to save money
unions of the Santander bank opened talks which should lead to closing the 3,000 national agencies on Saturday, therefore allowing the group to save 17 million euro. Unions proposed this solution...
11 September 2009
Italy: tense start for Fiat with short-time working, Mobilita procedures and overtime
‘s unions are mobilized against Mobilita procedures, short-time working and “unilateral posting” of workers. On September 9, the mobilization of workers at Case New Holland in...
11 September 2009
EU: ECJ subtly defines when the decision of the parent company sets off the obligation to consult workers
rday, September 10, the European Court of Justice introduces details, sometimes subtle, on when the obligation to consult workers in the event of mass layoffs decided by the parent company...
10 September 2009
Austria: collective bargaining about to be tough in metalworking and civil service
s’ unions will open negotiations with their wage claims in preparation for the annual collective negotiations which will start on October 9, 2009. Negotiations in civil service and trade...
10 September 2009
Germany: SPD and unions to help employees save their company
ement often “employee capital interest act” two social-democrat ministers, Olaf Scholz (Employment and Social Affairs) and Peer Steinbrück (Finance) presented, on September 8, the...
10 September 2009
Netherlands: bankers propose limiting their bonus to one year’s pay
ks (NVB) presented a spontaneous and non-binding code of conduct on September 9 in Amsterdam to limit administrators’ premiums to one year’s pay. This symbolic progress doesn’t...
10 September 2009
Italy: dialog slowly but surely resumes between the Confindustria and the CGIL
o (Lombardy) on Sunday, the leader of Confindustria (employers’ federation) and the leader of the CGIL, the largest Italian union, started patching things up while a major disagreement on...
9 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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Pascale Rauline (Axa EWC): “European charter formalises ongoing and accelerated social dialogue on AI”
On 27 November, Axa and its European works council (EWC) signed a charter setting out principles governing the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and guaranteeing social dialogue on the...
3 December 2025
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Germany: crisis-hit industries cast shadow over 2026 bargaining cycle
In 2026, collective wage agreements for nearly 10 million employees in Germany are set to expire. With upcoming negotiations in crisis-hit 'pilot' sectors such as chemicals and metalworking, the...
2 December 2025
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Bulgaria: government approves bill to encourage sector-level collective bargaining
On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...
2 December 2025
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EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI
On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...
18 December 2025
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Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement
Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching...
12 December 2025
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France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval
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