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SAS: the airline signed an agreement with unions to reduce costs
On January 11, 2009, Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), which has two head offices, one in Sweden and one in Denmark, signed an agreement with its unions on a new collective agreement to help the...
23 January 2009
Spain: Competitiveness Plan to help auto businesses face downturn
Planet Labor, January 23, 2009, No. 090075 – www.planetlabor.com
22 January 2009
EU: the CJEC opposed to the loss of paid annual leave in the case of absence for illness
The ruling rendered on January 19, 2009 by the Court of Justice of the European Communities (CJEC) is in keeping with the case law interpreting Directive 2003/88 on the organization of working...
22 January 2009
Brazil: one in three businesses prepares layoffs for the beginning of the year
Cutting short rumors
and assessments from independent sources, the Brazilian Ministry of Labor
finally recognized that a record in terms of job cuts was reached at the end of
2008. According to...
22 January 2009
EU: the CJEC will have to determine whether individual employees can object to the non-respect of the information and consultation procedure
A more fundamental question concerns the nature of the
right of information and consultation. Directive
98/59 on collective redundancies imposes a series of obligations on the
employer in terms...
22 January 2009
Germany: Lufthansa prepares for warning strikes
After breaking off, on January 16, 2009, the 3rd negotiation round with Lufthansa, the independent flight attendants' union, Ufo (Unabhängige Flugbegleiter Organisation e. V.), warned that it was...
21 January 2009
Portugal: unions hit by the crisis too
Portuguese unions are directly hit by the crisis because of its impact on employees' contributions. The CGTP (General Confederation of Workers, the largest union in Portugal) is expecting a 1.9%...
21 January 2009
Italy: an email sent by employees criticizing their company is legitimate if the fact stated is true
In a decision rendered on January 15, 2009, the Supreme Court cancelled the sentence for defamation of four former employees who, in an email to the customers of their former company, described...
21 January 2009
Netherlands: banks are reviewing their wage policy
The financial and economic crisis which led the State to step in to support the sector has consequences on wage policy, particularly managers' pay. Banks keep announcing reduced remuneration or...
21 January 2009
Germany: HRDs emphasize the advantages of partial unemployment
According to Professor Gerold Frick, director of the German human resources management association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Personalführung or DGFP), whose members signed the statement, the...
21 January 2009
Germany: booming partial unemployment particularly affects the automotive sector
On January 7, the Federal Employment Agency (BA)
confirmed a sharp hike in requests for short-term partial unemployment
measures. Around 300.000 applications were recorded last December against...
21 January 2009
Germany: BASF to appeal to partial unemployment for the first time since 1993
Currently, only
a few of the 95.000 people employed by BASF worldwide will be partially
unemployed as of February 1 – around 1.500 for the Munster site and 180 for the
Schwarzheide site, which...
21 January 2009
Rio Tinto-Alcan: EWC informed of 2.000 job cuts in Europe
This meeting of
the EWC follows the announcement of the restructuring plan announced on
December 10, 2008. Concerning employment, it provides for 14.000 job cuts
worldwide, including 5.500...
21 January 2009
Portugal: the CGTP demands payment of 191 million euro arrears of lay-off compensation
Portuguese Workers (CGTP) estimates at over 191 million euro unpaid compensation to redundant employees over the last 15 years. It demands the adoption of measures for clearing the courts charged...
20 January 2009
Ukraine: measure to protect the labor market from the crisis adopted
The global financial and economic crisis (added to the chronic political unrest) is badly affecting Ukraine, especially its labor market. According to official declarations, unemployment should...
20 January 2009
Bulgaria: amendments to the Labor Code enforced
The draft law amending the Labor Code (see our dispatch No. 080561) came into force at the end of 2008. Without introducing fundamental changes, it brings about a few important changes: it...
20 January 2009
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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
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...