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Poland : government to amend law on workers’ information and consultation
The government is preparing a bill to amend the April 7, 2006 law on workers' information and consultation (see our article No. 06556) to make it comply with the European law, notably concerning...
Germany: PIN AG to apply new legal postal minimum wage, TNT still refuses
PIN AG, first private company in the postal sector in Germany, currently in bankruptcy reorganization proceeding, finally decided to apply the new legal minimum wage which came into effect on...
Poland: few companies promote equal opportunities
For the second edition of a contest to promote gender equality, organized by the employers' confederation Lewiatan, model companies in this area were rewarded. However, research conducted on this...
Germany: Deutsche Telekom to hire 4.000 and dismiss 32.000 in 2008
A true rejuvenation cure : Thomas Sattelberger, Deutsche Telekom AG's HR manager, announced, on January 18, 2008, that the company was going to employ 4.000 employees this year, mainly young...
Hungary: illegal labour damages the economy
Despite the government's efforts to combat illegal labour, a very common phenomenon, transgressions of labour law are still increasing, according to the last figures of the labour inspectorate...
Slovakia: mounting pressure in ongoing wage negotiations
Social partners have not yet reached a wage agreement for 2008. unions are asking for a 7% wage increase and threaten to launch a general strike in February, whereas employers are standing on...
Italy: social partners signed the agreement for the renewal of metalworkers’ national collective agreement
After about seven months of negotiations and several strikes, the employers' organizations Federmeccanica and Assista and the three unions of the sector, Fim, Fiom and Uilm, signed the agreement...
Netherlands: Unilever’s employees building their own factory
Employees from the three factories of which Unilever announced the closure in October in the Netherlands - in Delft, Loosdrecht and Vlaardingen - are thinking about starting their own business...
Germany: IG Metall and Nokia’s WC to fight
Whereas Nokia's management already started to dismiss some of the approximately 1.000 temp workers it employs at Bochum, the IG Metall and the WC announced that they want to fight "at all costs...
Spain: Correros ‘ unions mobilized against the liberalization of the postal sector
Correros unions - the Spanish public operator - are mobilized against what they see as the forced liberalization of the postal sector. They launched a campaign against the fact that private...
Great Britain: the Institute of Occupational Health and Safety warns workers about musculoskeletal disorders
More than one million people are concerned by musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Muscles, joints and tendons are severely tested by bad positions and during extended periods in front of the...
Ireland: Health and Safety Authority’s work program for 2008
The Health and Safety Authority – HSA* - published its work program for 2008. Some of the key-objectives are: a 10% increase of inspections on the workplace and the development of policies centred...
Denmark: senior citizens’ unemployment rate decreasing for two years
Seniors particularly enjoyed the country’s excellent economic situation : in the past two years, their unemployment rate has been divided by more than two. To take advantage of this "grey gold...
EU: a preliminary ruling about jurisdictions conflict
Pending case at the French Supreme Court. In this case, an employee had first been employed by a French company for several years before being employed by a company from the same group, based in...
EU: unions worried about the Commission’s plans to combat climate change
One week before publication of the European Commission's series of measures in terms of energetic policy and fight against global warming, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and the...
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