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Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the telecommunications’ collective contract
New unitary agreement. In spite of three different claim platforms, the Asstel employers’ association and the Fistel-Cisl, SLC-CGIL and Uilcom-Uil unions concluded, on October 23, a unitary...
28 October 2009
Danone: European Works Council extended at global level
Official opening at global level. As the management of the French food company reminded in a press release published on October 21, the agreement establishing the ICC – Danone’s EWC – originally...
27 October 2009
Great Britain: stage two consultation on the transposition of the European directive on temporary work
Long blocked by the UK within the Council of the European union, the European directive on temporary work (see our dispatch No. 080986) was finally adopted in November 2008, shortly after the...
27 October 2009
Germany: new German government doesn’t envision a break in terms of employment and labor
A rather social message. The first measures announced during negotiations on the new government’s program immediately laid the government’s cards on the table. Angela Merkel and her new ally...
27 October 2009
Netherlands: negotiations on working conditions break
Disagreement on “arduous jobs.” The social climate remains tens after the announcement of the pension reform. Employers’ organizations say that the FNV broke the negotiations to protest against...
27 October 2009
Great Britain: success for the government’s policy in favor of training and skills
Continuous training. The statistics publish are about workers over 16 who aren’t enrolled at school or in a British college. In addition to positive apprenticeship figures, almost 1.5 million...
27 October 2009
Sweden: government proposes to adjust industrial relations system to comply with EU law
Supervising collective
action. In a
decision rendered in December 2007 (Laval,
see
our dispatch No. 071034), the ECJ ruled that, in the case of posted
workers, Swedish unions’ actions to...
27 October 2009
China: surprising workforce shortage for the ‘made in china’
Orders are back but not workers. No answer to his job offers and no one to recruit at the city’s employment fair. Like his colleagues, Yang Zongfu can’t find workers to come work in his jean plant...
26 October 2009
Spain: temp social partners list eight recommendations to bargain for equality programs in the sector’s businesses
These eight recommendations, of a declarative
value, were developed within the equal committee on best practices in terms of
equality programs in the temporary sector. They have to characterize...
26 October 2009
Portugal: Minister for Labor and Solidarity from a European trade union
European trade union leader. Maria Helena André was elected ETUC deputy general secretary in 2003, and reelected in 2007. She was notably in charge of European social dialog. The new Labor...
26 October 2009
Italy: basic unions join forces but are still divided over the creation of a union confederation
“Fully successful”
strike. This is how
Pierpaolo Leonardi, national Rdb Cub coordinator, qualified the general 24-hour
strike launched by basic unions – Rdb, Cub, Cobas and Sdl Intercategoriale...
26 October 2009
EU: national laws making the dismissal of employees on parental leave cheaper in the ECJ’s line of sight
Facts. A Belgian employee fired for economic reasons objected to the amount of compensation she got, based on the part-time salary she received while on parental leave. She asked that compensation...
26 October 2009
Germany: to keep young skilled workers in businesses, the Bavarian idea of “employment bridges” is gaining a following
700,000 specialists needed by 2015. In May, the social partners in metalworking and the Land of Bavaria came up with the idea of an employment bridge for apprentices, skilled workers and...
26 October 2009
Argentina: inflation higher than wage increases
According to the human resources specialist, Ernst & Young, a huge majority of Argentinean businesses increased wages in 2009 for workers who aren’t covered by collective agreements. In a...
23 October 2009
Spain: Magna and Figueruelas unions reach an agreement
Unions are satisfied and think that the new points Magna included into the industrial plan to strengthen the site’s future includes their main claims and offers guarantees to maintain production...
23 October 2009
Italy: the Fiom’s central committee confirms mobilization against the separate agreement on the metalworking CCN
“Deeply negative judgment.” This is how the central committee of the Fiom, gathered on October 20, summarized its point of view on the agreement for the renewal of the CCN signed on October 15 by...
22 October 2009
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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