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Germany: many executives want to switch employers
According to an online study carried out by the Lüneburg University, many executives and technicians are extremely unhappy about their job. 70% of them are thinking about leaving their firm in the...
Spain: professional experience soon to be officially validated
Employees will soon get official recognition for the skills acquired as part of their professional experience. (Ref. 080508)
EU : the Twenty-Seven try to curb the crisis after Ireland’s ‘no’ to the Lisbon Treaty
Since Ireland rejected, last week end, the Lisbon Treaty, the heads of State and government of the Twenty-Seven Member States are looking for an answer to this particular "no" and trying to curb...
BBVA: the Latin American union coordination denounces offenses to union right in the Colombian and Paraguayan units
Union representatives from Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay met in Madrid in the name of the Latin American union coordination of BBVA (BBVA CSLA), which has gathered...
Netherlands: two-week paternity leave
The debate is hardening around the introduction of the two-week paternity leave, presented in Parliament on May 12 by the Groenlinks Green Party, with the support of the Socialist Party (SP) and...
Italy: renewal of agency workers’ national collective convention
The employers' association of temporary work (Assolavoro) and the organizations representing precarious workers (Alai-Cisl, Nidil-Cgil, Uil-Cpo), have just concluded an agreement renewing the...
EU: labor costs rise fast
Hourly labor cost has been increasing since the beginning of 2007, with a 4.3% annual rise up to the first quarter of 2008, compared with 2.9% for the previous quarter. Most new EU Member States...
Germany: Celesio Group commits to promote diversity
The group Celesio AG, one of the two European leaders in pharmaceutical distribution, signed, on June 10, 2008, the "Charter on diversity in German companies" (see link below). With this document...
Germany: last meeting of Nokia-Bochum’s EWC to inform employees about the social plan
The Nokia-Bochum factory will officially close on June 30, 2008. However, the 2.300 employees already stopped working since May 16 and attended their last General Assembly on June 6. The works...
International: the ILO takes up the arms against unionists’ murders in Colombia
The annual conference of the International Labor Organization led to an indictment of violence against union movements in Colombia, where 26 staff representatives were killed since the beginning...
Italy : upsurge in the consumption of drugs in the workplace
“The plant is no longer a community, a place with an identity. Young workers still share the same working conditions, but it is easier for them to get together to sniff cocaine rather than...
France: decree to complete the transposition of the framework directive on occupational safety
In a ruling of June 5, the CJEC condemned France for failure to fully transpose Directive 89/391 known as framework Directive on health and safety at work. French law is blamed for excluding some...
Germany: Ver.di calls for an 8% wage increase and job security in the banking sector
On the eve of the opening of the wage negotiations in the banking sector, on June 19, the commission for collective agreements of the German services union revealed its requirements. Ver.di wants...
Italy: Telecom Italia trade unions mobilized against the restructuring plan
On June 10, in Rome, the National Assembly of Telecom Italia's unions voted the total suspension of industrial relations, the cessation of overtime, and a national strike on July 4 in response to...
Germany: Lufthansa faced with an imbroglio of claims from different trades
Lufthansa is facing two major wage conflicts. Ver.di, the services' union, claims for a 9.8% wage increase for the approximately 60.000 ground and cabin staff and threatened to start a strike if...
EU: the working time and temporary work draft directives as adopted by the Council of Ministers
After a commentary in article N° 080843, we are now publishing the texts, in English, of the consolidated compromises for which EU Labor Ministers signed a political agreement at the EU Council of...
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Spain: government seeks to strengthen protection for employee whistleblowers
On 28 July, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft bill aimed at providing legal protection to employees who report corruption or breaches of labour law, shielding them from potential...
27 August 2026
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Netherlands: Uber fined over 800 million euros for automated algorithmic decisions
The news. In a decision dated 17 August, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined ride-hailing company Uber €825 million for automating decisions regarding driver account deactivations. The...
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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Germany: introduction of the concept of partial incapacity for work
The news. On 10 July, the German Parliament definitively adopted the “Act to Stabilise Contribution Rates in the Statutory Health Insurance System”...