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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
EU: the CJEC departs from the rule that the legislation of a single Member State is to apply in favor of a mobile employee
In a judgment of May 20, 2008, the CJEC questioned the rule that the legislation of a single Member State is to apply in terms of social security. Concerning family benefits, the ruling raised...
29 May 2008
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
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
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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...
24 August 2026
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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”...
27 August 2026