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Chile: 4 billion dollars to whip up economy and employment
Chilean MPs unanimously approved the government's plan to face the downturn. It contains two types of commitments: protecting existing jobs, by introducing tax advantages for businesses, and...
15 January 2009
Italy: in Milan, unions and local authorities create a fund to help workers in danger of social exclusion
The Milan city
hall and the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions presented to the press, on January 12,
2009, the Fondazione per il Welfare
Ambrosiano. The creation of this foundation was proposed by...
14 January 2009
Netherlands: telework is booming
Telework and working from home, encouraged by employers' organizations and unions to reduce traffic, have been booming. At the end of 2007, half the businesses employing more than 10 people...
14 January 2009
Poland: creation of a Confederation of Metalworkers’ Unions
On January 7, 2009, the representatives of three metalworkers' unions (the Federation of foundry unions, the union of electro mechanic industry, the Federation of "Metalworkers'" unions) approved...
14 January 2009
Germany: the Grand Coalition adopts new partial unemployment measures
Whereas, in December, the number of jobseekers went back over the 3 million bar, the Grand Coalition agreed, within the framework of its second revival plan adopted on January 12, 2009 (see our...
14 January 2009
Germany: the Grand Coalition agrees on a second revival plan with a historical scope
Nine months before the federal legislative elections, the Chancellor, Angela Merkel (CDU), presented, on January 13, 2009, the main measures of the "largest revival plan in the history of the...
14 January 2009
EU: a collective agreement transposing a EU directive can apply to employees who are not union members
Whereas the Court of Justice gave a rough ride to Scandinavian social relations systems with the Viking and Laval cases, it recognized their specificities in a decree on December 18, 2008...
14 January 2009
Portugal: Tyco Electronics appeals to partial unemployment for six months for part of its staff
The factory making electronic components for cars, Tyco Electronics of Evora, south Portugal, decided to appeal to partial unemployment for six months. Negotiations helped reduce the staff...
14 January 2009
Italy: EDS and HP unions announce new strike
On January 8, 2009, unions were disappointed when they came out of the meeting with representatives from Electronics Data Systems (EDS) and Hewlett Packard (HP) Italia about the restructuring plan...
14 January 2009
Great Britain: government announces new financial incentives to recruit difficult publics
As of April 2009, job placement agencies will be able to award employers who recruit and commit to train job seekers who have been out of work for six months or longer a financial incentive of up...
13 January 2009
Spain: the UGT union demands a revised tax system for economic redundancies benefits in the name of equality
Faced with more and more collective redundancy procedures (EREs), the UGT union wants an emergency reform of the tax status for layoff pay to ensure fair treatment for those who loose their job...
13 January 2009
Netherlands: works councils directly informed by the labor inspectorate
From now on, the labor inspectorate itself will inform works councils of the results of its investigations on working conditions, pay levels and illegal labor. Piet Hein Donner, Minister of Labor...
12 January 2009
Germany: Gesamtmetall wants the government to give more support to “employment pacts” signed in businesses
The tariff agreement on job security (Tarifvertrag Beschäftigungssicherung) in force in the metallurgy and electronics sector, enabling companies facing a dropping demand to reduce working time...
12 January 2009
Denmark: companies’ social commitment can be a burden for employees
Danish businesses are making more and more room for diversity, but this commitment can also be a burden for employees. This is the observation that came out of the annual report of the National...
Italy: focus on the Mobilità procedure
The Mobilità procedure was introduced by Law 223 of July 23, 1991 to solve problems related to the lack of legislation on mass layoffs, following European Directive No. 129/1975 reconciling...
12 January 2009
EU: the Commission consults the European social partners on second-hand smoke at work
The European Commission launched a consultation to improve the legal framework on the prevention of workers' exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. It reminds its detrimental effects and...
12 January 2009
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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...
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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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025