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Germany: IBM introduces a new “global” pay system in exchange for a disputed wage agreement
At the end of September 2007, the Verdi union got a 4% wage increase for IBM Germany's employees. In exchange, the services sector union stopped opposing the introduction of a new pay system based...
14 December 2007
Austria: 1.700 job cuts in the Austrian Post by 2011
Subject to the private sector's competition, the Austrian post (Österreichische Post), which employs 24.000 people, announced on Wednesday, December 12, a savings plan as well as 1.700 job cuts by...
13 December 2007
Italy: social partners from banking sector renewed their collective agreement for three years
Social partners from the banking sector (Associazione Bancaria Italiana – ABI for employers and the Dircredito, Fabi, Falcri, Fiba, Fisac, Silcea, Sinfub, Ugl, Uilca unions) signed, on December 8...
13 December 2007
EU: the European Globalization Adjustment Fund to help Maltese textile workers
The European Commission approved, on December 13, 2007, Malta's request to get help from the European Globalization Adjustment Fund (EGF). The EGF's contribution, of more than 600.000 Euros, is...
13 December 2007
Spain: CCOO campaigning to defend trainees
The workers' commissions union launched the campaign "are you working or studying?" to fight against abuses some trainees are subject to in businesses. The goal is to make aware over 100.000 union...
13 December 2007
Germany: Verdi won in court against Edeka
After a decree on December 11, 2007 at Nuremberg-Furth's regional court, seized by the services' union Ver.di, the regional variety store "Edeka Nordbayern-Sachsen-Thüringen" will, in the future...
12 December 2007
Germany: chemistry and metal unions present their claims for 2008 tariff negotiations
Putting forward the German chemistry's good health, the IG BCE union said, on December 12, 2007, in Hanover, that it would ask between a 6.5 and 7% wage increase for the approximately 550.000...
12 December 2007
EU: the EMF published a comparative note on national legislations about setting up special negotiating bodies
The European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) developed a comparative note with 30 national legislations transposing the directive 94/45 on European works' councils regarding the introduction of the...
12 December 2007
Italy: renewal of the economic part of the national collective agreement in chemicals sector
By anticipating the end of the collective agreement in effect, planned for the end of December 2009, social partners from the chemicals and pharmacy sectors renewed, on December 6, 2007, the...
12 December 2007
Luxembourg: implementation of the directive on working time in road transport
The Parliament adopted, on December 6, 2007, a law to implement the Directive n° 2002/15 of 11 March 2002 on the organisation of the working time of persons performing mobile road transport...
12 December 2007
EU: the CJEC rules on unions’ right to act against social dumping
In the Viking case concerning unions' right to act to force an employer to apply a collective agreement, the Court recognized that a union's right to take a collective action is a fundamental...
11 December 2007
Italy: directives from the Labour Ministry to clarify some provisions of the “123 law” on safety
After the interpretation difficulties of the "123 law" of August 3, 2007 (see our article n° 070690) on safety in the workplace pointed out by the INAIL (National Institute of insurance against...
11 December 2007
EU: the CJEC compared equal pay for equal working hours to reveal gender discrimination
In a case concerning a national pay system which leads part-time workers – notably women – to be less paid than their colleagues working full-time whereas they work, with extra hours, the same...
10 December 2007
Netherlands: bonus to work from home
Deputies from the Christian Democrat Call (CDA), in power, proposed on December 7, 2007, the introduction of a tax-exempt bonus to encourage employees work at home. The goal is to reduce traffic...
10 December 2007
Great Britain: more and more people work over 48 hours a week
A study by the trade union confederation TUC reveals a significant increase in the number of people working more than 48 hours a week whereas figures had been decreasing for ten years. For the TUC...
10 December 2007
EU: the Commission wants to adapt the legislation on the coordination of social security schemes with new forms of mobility
In a communication published on December 10, 2007, about a new action plan to promote employment mobility in Europe, the European Commission announced its work plan to tackle the issues raised by...
7 December 2007
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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