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Denmark: leading women favor executive women’s career advancement within the company
When women get to the head of a business, they help other women upward hierarchal mobility, with a salutary "snowball effect" on equal opportunities, as a new study by the Aarhus University shows...
17 September 2008
EU: labor cost increase is slowing down
According to recent data published by the European statistics office, Eurostat, total hourly labor cost is decreasing, both in the Euro area and in the EU27, in the second quarter of 2008. During...
16 September 2008
Germany: Eurofound’s study on working time revived the debate on “worsening” working conditions
According to the European foundation for improved working and living conditions, German people work much longer than we thought. Armed with this observation, the Confederation of German trade...
16 September 2008
Italy: nine former executives of the old Goodyear factory condemned for the death of 15 workers
Nine former executives from Goodyear's Cisterna di Latina's factory (in the Latium, next to Rome) were condemned to an overall sentence of 20 years and four months of imprisonment for negligent...
16 September 2008
Great Britain: telework is booming
A survey published on September 8, 2008 by the employers' organization CBI shows a major increase in the number of employers giving their employees the possibility to work from home: 46% instead...
16 September 2008
Gaz de France Suez: European representatives meet to improve GDF’s EWC agreement
The representatives of GDF's EWC and of Suez's IED (European Consultative Committee) will meet on September 17-19 during a joint seminar to prepare the negotiation on the EWC of the new group...
16 September 2008
Italy: Confindustria presented its national collective bargaining model to the trade unions
A three-year national collective agreement, more weight to the company level and a seven-month "union peace" during the bargaining for the renewal: these are the main elements of the reform of the...
15 September 2008
Luxembourg: a bill to make the rules applicable to posted workers comply with European requirements
On September 12, the Council of Ministers adopted a bill aimed at ensuring compliance of the Labor Code with European regulations on posted workers as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the...
15 September 2008
Great Britain: lackluster evaluation of the TUC annual conference
Over 700 unionists met in Brighton on September 8-11, 2008 for the 140th TUC annual conference. The different bills announced by the Brown government's Ministers, who followed each other at the...
15 September 2008
Spain: employees look for second jobs
Spanish people didn't wait for the government to announce a recession to get ready to face hard times. Randstad, the temporary work agency, observed, from its own data, that the number of people...
15 September 2008
Spain: the government goes easy on the minimum wage increase
Pedro Solbes, Minister for Economic Affairs, announced that minimum interprofessional wages (SMI) would "increase slower than anticipated with different economic circumstances". The trade unions...
15 September 2008
EU: Dublin Foundation report on working time
In 2007, average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union was 38.6 hours. This is the outcome of the annual survey published by the European Foundation for the improvement of...
12 September 2008
Great Britain: job evaluation guide
How to avoid going to court for wage discrimination ? By establishing job and pay evaluation schemes, answers the ACAS - the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - in a guide published...
12 September 2008
China: Shenzhen adopts two regulations to favor social dialogue in companies
The law on the employment contract and the law on the "establishment and development of harmonious working relationships", adopted by the authorities of the special Shenzhen economic zone, which...
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11 September 2008
EU: European managers propose amendments to the EWC “recast” directive
After the letter the ETUC, BusinessEurope, the CEEP and the UEAPME (see our dispatch No. 080643) sent to Xavier Bertrand - French Minister of Labor and current President of the EU Employment and...
11 September 2008
Companies: benefits and disadvantages of EWCs
After analyzing the direct and indirect costs of a EWC (see our dispatch No. 080674), the study carried out by the GHK Consulting Firm at the request of the European Commission as part of the...
11 September 2008
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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