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EU: European social partners commit to a minimum on the conciliation between private and professional life
European social partners addressed a joint response to the second phase of consultation on the conciliation between private and professional life, launched on May 30, 2007, by the European...
EU: the CJEC spoke out again on certain administrative formalities concerning the posting of workers
According to the court of justice, the obligation, imposed by the German regulation to foreign service providers, to translate certain social documents and keep them, is certainly a violation of...
France: the state council validates the decree on the posting of workers in airline companies
In a decree passed on July 11, 2007, the State Council – the highest French administrative jurisdiction – validates a decree of application passed on November 21, 2006 as part of the August 2...
Netherlands: a contested bonus leave for Numico’s chair after the takeover by Danone
Dutch unions are protesting against an 80-million euros bonus leave, qualified of "strange and absurd", Danone is going to pay Jan Bennink, CEO of Numico, a company of child food bought over by...
Netherlands: social agreement for KLM-Air France’s flying personnel
Held up at the end of June, an unusual threat to strike among KLM-Air France's flying personnel looks like it might have paid off. Indeed, an agreement was found, on July 16, 2007, between the...
Italy: social partners from the chemistry sectors negotiated guidelines to make it possible to derogate from the branch collective convention
After a year of negotiations, chemistry unions (FILCEM-CGIL, UILCEM-UIL, FEMCA-CISL) recently signed a compromise with the employer's federations Federchimica and Farmindustria, on guidelines for...
EU: the European Parliament adopted the report on the modernization of labour law
During a vote in a plenary session on July 11, the European Parliament adopted, with a large majority, the report of the Polish deputy Jacek Protasiewiscz (PPE-DE) on the green book on the...
EU: the European Parliament insisted on workers’ protection within the framework of transborder posting
As an answer to the recent communication by the European Commission on the evaluation of the national measures of enforcement of the 96/71 directive on the posting of workers (see our dispatch n°...
Suez: interview with Muriel Morin, manager of indusrial relations at Suez group
The French group Suez concluded three transnational agreements, on financial involvement (dispatch n°070625,) equality and diversity (see our dispatch n°070615,) and Employment and expertise plan...
Great Britain: the union confederation TUC warns employers on the security of immigrant workers
Because of a bad English, an ignorance of their rights and a lack of training on security at work, some immigrant workers are much more vulnerable to illnesses, injuries, or even deadly accidents...
Italy: important participation to the general July 13 strike, organized by the Basic Unit Confederation against pensions’ reform
Participation to the general strike proclaimed by the autonomous trade unions CUB, Al Cobas, SDL e USI on Friday, July 13, was higher than expected. Thousands of demonstrators from all...
EU: the European Parliament amended the postal sector’s liberalization plan
European deputies adopted, on July 12, 2007, the report on the directive bill amending the 97/67 directive concerning the conclusion of the Community's postal services' interior market. Pushing...
Spain: launching of a protocol against semicircular lipoatrophy
Catalan regional authorities established an action protocol against semicircular lipoatrophy. This phenomenon would affect at least 620 people in 28 companies, according to the labour counselor...
Great Britain : more jobs for graduates, but first salaries lower
The barometer realized twice a year by the association of graduate recruiters revealed an increase in the number of posts offered to young people freshly graduated, but in certain sectors and...
Spain: publication of the law on the independent worker status
The 20/2007 law, published in the Official Journal on July 12, will come into effect in three months. For the first time, it comprises the status of the 3.118.000 people who work alone. The text's...
Schneider Electric: adoption of an agreement on changes’ conduct
The French group Schneider Electric (117.000 employees) signed an agreement, on July 12, 2007, with the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF,) on changes' foreseeing. The text sets "minimum...
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