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Great Britain: unions and employers ask the government to compensate partial unemployment
, the government is going to publish its coming budget, the TUC, the British Chambers of Commerce an the EEF representing the industry, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Work...
21 April 2009
EU: skills and greens jobs on the 2009 agenda of the European Social Dialogue Committee in Electricity
The European Social Dialogue Committee in Electricity met on March 10 to validate its 2009 work program. The Committee, created in 2000, gathers the FSESP-EPSU – the European Federation of Public...
20 April 2009
Germany: several businesses caught storing employees’ personal data again
Lidl discounter in the hot seat again. In early April, several hundreds of listings and forms belonging to Lidl were found in a trash can near a gas station in Bochum. Part of these documents was...
20 April 2009
Germany: firms and unions work hand in hand to put off as long as possible the prospect of massive layoffs
Beyond the debate on bonuses and extravagant salaries of bosses and certain senior executives, the solidarity currently shown by unions and employers is perhaps only fleeting, but it really...
20 April 2009
EU: the Committee on Women’s Rights of the European Parliament proposes to extend minimum maternity leave to 20 weeks
Longer maternity leave and equivalent salary. The MEPs propose to extend minimum maternity leave to 20 weeks instead of 18 as the Commission proposed (currently, maternity leave lasts 14 weeks). 6...
20 April 2009
Germany: IG Metall signs an agreement reducing partial unemployment costs and extending fixed-term contracts
day, April 15th by the IG Metall union and the Sudwestmetall employers’ federation in southern Germany opens the way for the renewal of fixed-term contracts for four years instead of two and...
20 April 2009
Estonia: government suspends State contributions to the second pillar of compulsory pension schemes for two years
unced that, as of June 1, it would stop paying its contribution to the compulsory supplementary pension scheme managed by pension funds. For the moment, the people involved in this program pay out...
20 April 2009
Brazil: 1,200 temporarily laid off at Mercedes Benz
in March, the German carmaker implemented several measures to reduce activity in one of its Brazilian factories making trucks and buses: 10% of the 12,000 workers of the site were laid off for 15...
20 April 2009
Chile: national strike against corporate policy to face the crisis
Chile’s key trade union, CUT (Central unica de trabajadores) called its members for a national day of action on Thursday April 16, which was successful throughout the country. The participants...
20 April 2009
Belgium: negotiations down in the metallurgy sector?
ector is badly affected by the crisis in Belgium, the regional committee of Wallonia-Brussels of the FGTB union said no, on April 15, to the memorandum of understanding in the metal making sector...
17 April 2009
France: Supreme Court draws a line between outplacement within the framework of international posting and illegal labor leasing
by the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court can be used to differentiate situations belonging to transnational posting, subject to the provisions of Directive 96/71 and of article L...
17 April 2009
Netherlands: social agreement in addition to economic recovery plan
resented by the Dutch government on March 25 (see our dispatch No. 090335) came with a wide social agreement which the social partners negotiated at length. Its key measure is the increase of...
17 April 2009
Poland: arduous talks on bills deriving from the anticrisis package
veloped their “anticrisis action package”, mostly focused on labor law, the government sent its own propositions for measures. However, during the bilateral meeting of the social...
17 April 2009
Great Britain: restrictions for eastern European workers extended
“I can confirm that members of the A8 [accession states] will have to be working and paying tax in the UK for one year before they become eligible for the benefits” declared a Home Office...
17 April 2009
Italy: Cisl, Uil and Confindustria sign the confederal agreement enforcing the reform of the conventional system
growth, development of employment and increased productivity,” the two union confederations Cisl and Uil and the Confindustria employers’ association signed, on April 15, 2009, the...
17 April 2009
Germany: temp’s Christian trade unions (CGZP) cannot negotiate collective agreements
n court on April 1 is going to revive the controversy on the introduction of minimum wage in the temporary sector. Indeed, competition between collective agreements signed by the CGPZ and the...
17 April 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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Spain: new terms and conditions for in-company training contracts
On 25 November, Spain's Council of Ministers approved a regulation on training contracts. This text defines the terms and conditions for hosting work-study students and interns doing professional...
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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...
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