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Germany: the locomotive drivers’ union (GDL) will launch a national strike
After one week of "missed" appointments between the management and the Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the GDL, and whereas the official "social truce" ended Sunday night, the drivers' unions decided to...
1 October 2007
AXA: European funds for training of the EWC’s members
The European Works Council of the French insurance group AXA will organize a training session, in May 2008 in Warsaw, to ease the integration of the council's new members, following AXA's...
28 September 2007
Denmark: employers’ proposal to face workforce shortage
On September 25, the employers' organization Dansk Industri (DI) presented its "Plan B" which would enable to hire 200.000 new workers in eight years, and this to solve the important workforce...
28 September 2007
Italy : a law forbidding “blank resignation” adopted
The bill, which prevents the practice of "blank resignations", was adopted on September 25, 2007. This practice consisted in having the employee sign a blank resignation letter when they were...
28 September 2007
Hungary: the government continues its efforts to develop telework as an insertion tool
Along the same lines as the policies initiated in 1997 to broadcast teleworking as part of employment policies enabling to keep mothers active or to reinstate people far from the labour market...
28 September 2007
Germany: the federal labour court confirmed that all employees are equal before the Christmas bonus
In a ruling rendered on September 26, 2007, the federal labour court gave satisfaction to 50 employees to whom the employer had refused to pay the Christmas bonus, pretending that they had not –...
27 September 2007
EU: European support for the creation of EWCs in four Austrian financial businesses
The internationalization of Austrian banks and insurance companies experienced important quickening with the EU's enlargement to the east. However, linguistic barriers and the differences in union...
27 September 2007
EU: the Globalisation Adjustment Fund is going to help 4.000 workers in the mobile phone sector
The European Commission approved two new applications for assistance to the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), those introduced by Germany and Finland to help respectively cell phone...
27 September 2007
Belgium: social partners agreed on a profit-sharing system
Belgian social partners signed, on September 27, 2007, a joint declaration which sets the principles for a new system for employees' financial involvement in the company's results. The system...
27 September 2007
Crédit Agricole: negotiation on the establishment of a European works council
With a constantly growing workforce in Europe, the Credit Agricole group launched a negotiation to establish a European works council. After reaching an agreement on the establishment of a special...
27 September 2007
Unilever: European trade unions mobilized against the Dutch group’s restructuring
A coordination meeting between the Unilever group's European trade unions took place, on September 25, 2007, in Amsterdam, on the initiative of the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and...
27 September 2007
Austria: collective bargaining for 180.000 employees in the metal sector started
The first meeting between the sector's social partners will take place on Friday September 28 in Vienna. Even though they have not explicitly given figures, trade unions' claims are pointing...
27 September 2007
Denmark : one third of employees not covered by a collective agreement
According to a recent study, in spite of the important level of unionization in Denmark, one employee out of three is not covered by a collective agreement and four employees out of ten do not...
26 September 2007
Great Britain: a study to encourage companies to deal better with problems linked to alcoholism and drug addiction at work
Facing the escalation of drugs and alcohol at work and of its consequences on attendance and productivity, a recent study by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) advises to...
26 September 2007
Germany : Metro group created a new company to get away from collective agreements
Whereas warning strikes started in the retailing sector after the ongoing branch collective negotiations failed, Metro, one of the most important retail groups in the world, has just created a new...
25 September 2007
EU: the Parliament adopted drivers’ certification as part of the third rail package
The European Parliament adopted, on September 25, 2007, the reports composing the "third railway package", that is to say the draft directives on the opening and the liberalization of the railway...
25 September 2007
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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
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
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 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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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
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