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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

Czech Republic: a bill to make the new Labour Code more flexible

The Chamber of Deputies should start dealing with the bill at the beginning of its autumnal session. The Bill is intended to come into effect during the first half of next year.

25 September 2007

Tools : compared study on industrial accidents and managerial liability

This study about seven member States (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands) is the first one e-europnews carried out for its subscribers. This first...

25 September 2007

EU: towards a new consultation of social partners on the revision of the EWC directive

Urged by the European economic and social committee, the European Parliament and trade unions, the European Commission should launch, before the end of the year, a second consultation of European...

25 September 2007

Bulgaria: launching of the first programs paid for by the European social fund

The Department of Labour and Social Policy published call for to tender in the field of the development of human resources which will be paid for by the European Social Fund (ESF). (Ref. 070791)

25 September 2007

Spain: railway trade unions secured their involvement in talks on the transfer of the management of suburban trains to the regions

The trade unions UGT, CCOO as well as the drivers' union Semaf had called for 6 days of strike to protest against the transfer of the management of suburban trains (Cercanias) from the central...

24 September 2007

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