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Great Britain: thousands of workers face monitoring stress
According to a study paid for by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), there is a 7.5% increase in work strain for employees whose work is checked by information and communications...
17 January 2008
Nokia: the EMF denounced violations of the directive on EWCs
European trade unions immediately reacted when the giant Finnish phone company announced, on January 16, the closure of one of its German sites. The European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF)...
17 January 2008
Italy: renewal of the economic part of the Gas and Water sector’s collective agreement
An average 113 euros wage increase for 2008-2009 and a joint opinion to face the sector's difficulties and limit the consequences the liberalization of the market has on employment. These are the...
16 January 2008
Italy: unions worried about Alitalia’s jobs after privatization and Air France-KLM’s buyout
The Cgil, Cisl and Uil unions are not satisfied after their first meeting, on January 16, 2008, with the President of the Council, Romano Prodi, about Alitalia's privatization and its possible...
16 January 2008
EU: MEPs ask the Commission to go further in its new health and safety at work strategy
On January 15, 2008, MEPs adopted, with a large majority, the report of the UK Labour MEP, Glenis Wilmot, on the Community strategy 2007–2012 on health and safety at work, presented by the...
16 January 2008
Belgium: guide for the protection of people working close to GSM infrastructures
The Belgium Labour Ministry published a guide it developed along with the three large mobile phone operators in Belgium. This guide, written from an evaluation of the risks linked to the presence...
16 January 2008
Netherlands: no more anonymous resumes at Manpower
The temp work agency Manpower draws a negative balance of a six-month pilot project started last June (see our article No. 070523), aiming at presenting anonymous applicants for vacant positions...
16 January 2008
Ireland: the government wants to guarantee the respect of workers ‘rights
During the launching of an information campaign on workers' rights, the government announced, on January 10, a series of labour law reforms. The most important of them aims at strengthening the...
15 January 2008
Denmark: the union confederation HK getting ready for big restructuring
The extraordinary congress of the union confederation HK, the second largest in Denmark in terms of members, elected chairman Kim Simonsen, leader of the unions' "local public administration...
15 January 2008
Luxembourg: individual training leave enforced
The individual training leave provision, introduced by the October 24, 2007 law, came into effect on January 1, 2008. This defined as part of the agreement signed by Luxembourg's social partners...
15 January 2008
Germany: train drivers get an 11% wage increase
Started last March, the longest rail conflict in German history is coming to an end. The train drivers' union, GDL, announced, on January 13, 2008, that he set with the Deutsche Bahn (DB) the day...
15 January 2008
Netherlands: role of the anti-discrimination Commission
The anti-discrimination Commission (Commissie Gelijke Behandeling, CGB), set up in 1994, gives legal rulings that are non-binding but which help building up the caselaw. Its "decisions" are indeed...
15 January 2008
Poland: equal treatment bill in progress
The bill, aiming at adapting Polish legislation to the Community law, establishes the rule of equal treatment in several matters, including access to work, social security and trade union...
14 January 2008
France: social partners agree to modernize the labour market
Employers' and union organizations signed, on January 11, a draft agreement on the modernization of the labour market. Presented as a French enforcement of the EU's flexicurity system, this...
14 January 2008
Italy: negotiations on the renewal of metalworkers’ national collective agreement resumed
Negotiations for the renewal of metalworkers' national collective agreement started again on January 9, with both parties openly willing to sign an agreement as soon as possible. For the first...
14 January 2008
Great Britain: guidance promoting physical activity in the workplace
How to encourage employees to increase their physical activity ? Such is the topic of the guidance proposed by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. This guidance for...
14 January 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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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: a high-tension start to the social and political year
The German government must finalize its major reforms (pension funding, corporate competitiveness, and labor law) while the chancellor’s popularity hits an all-time low and three regional...
26 August 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Sweden: IF Metall union forced to end industrial dispute with Tesla
The news. After three years of conflict, the Swedish union IF Metall announced it would suspend its strike actions against Tesla starting Wednesday, August 19, after the American automaker...
26 August 2026