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Italy: the Sodalitas Social Award, a ‘barometer’ of the growing interest in corporate social responsibility
The Sodalitas Social Award was awarded on May 29 during the meeting entitled "Sustainability and social responsibility". Revealing Italian companies' growing interest for this field, this national...
Spain: Inditex signs its first gender equality plan
The Spanish textile group signed, on May 22, 2008, an agreement negotiated with trade unions to enforce an active policy of equal treatment between men and women at its logistics platform in...
4 June 2008
Denmark: the new bill on “non-hiring” clauses vividly criticized
Unions say it doesn't protect employees enough, while employers say it goes too far. The new bill introduced by the Minister of Labor, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, on the non-hiring clauses, concluded...
4 June 2008
Great Britain: study about carbon nanotubes’ risks on health
A study carried out by the university of Edinburgh sound the alarm concerning the dangers represented by carbon nanotubes. These first industrial products resulting from nanotechnologies could be...
4 June 2008
Great Britain: Google named best place to work
Careful selection of employees, who are pampered and stay in the company for a long time : these are the reasons for the keen interesting the young American company. A study carried out by the...
4 June 2008
EU: the Parliament is discussing a draft resolution for the posting of workers
The members of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament debated, on May 29, on the draft resolution for the future of collective agreements after the Laval, Viking...
4 June 2008
Arcelor-Mittal: global agreement on health and safety at work
The steel group Arcelor-Mittal (310.000 employees) and three union organizations – the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the American...
4 June 2008
Lafarge: safety month in all the sites of the group
The French group Lafarge (90.000 employees), world leader in construction materials, will organize, in June, a "safety month" in 76 countries where the group is present. At every site, "one or...
3 June 2008
Italy: union and renewal praised at the end of the Cgil national organization conference
The Cgil's national organization conference, which was held from May 29 to May 31, ended with the approval, by a large majority, of the two documents – one political, the other organizational –...
3 June 2008
Spain: union concerns about the public postal sector
The Comisiones obreras union is sounding the alarm about the risk the public postal company Correos is running faced with the government's inertia. According to the CCOO, whereas all EU countries...
3 June 2008
Great Britain: 65 million pounds to train engineers and scientists
The government and employers signed an agreement to improve the skills level of industry, science and recent technologies workers. The government announced this on May 28, a few days after...
2 June 2008
Corporate practices : the German group Henkel boosts and internationalizes its corporate diversity management policy
Henkel illustrates the human diversity policy of the group at its site in Vienna. There, the firm has set up its headquarters for Austria and the east European countries. 10.000 people of 33...
2 June 2008
Germany: the federal government awards best work-life balance employment schemes
The names of the companies who won the "Erfolgsfaktor Familie 2008" contest (see our dispatch No. 080082) were revealed, on May 29, 2008, by the Federal Minister for Families. Created in 2005...
30 May 2008
EU : toward political agreement on June 9 on working time and temporary work draft directives
A last negotiating meeting is scheduled before the council of ministers that is to be held on June 9-10. However, the last meeting revealed a genuine consensus on the proposals presented by the...
30 May 2008
EU: Parliament pressure to increase the fight against discrimination
While the European Commission is thinking about what measures to take in terms of the fight against discrimination in its social package (see our article No. 080369), which is now planned for July...
30 May 2008
Netherlands: government to encourage work after 65
Piet Hein Donner, Christian Democrat Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, presented, on May 28, the details of his plan to encourage senior citizens to work after legal retirement age. The...
29 May 2008
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
4 November 2025
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
Spain is preparing for the implementation of its national law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will take effect on 7 June 2026. The legislation marks another step forward in...
5 November 2025
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
4 November 2025
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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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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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Italy: European pay transparency directive, a major step forward for businesses
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