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Siemens: staff representatives want a “global advisory committee” and a global framework agreement
On October 25 and 26, 2007, Siemens' staff representatives from 17 countries gathered in Frankfurt for the third time since 2005. Their goal is to create a global advisory committee for staff...
21 November 2007
EADS: information and consultation procedure for relocations outside the EU
EADS' management and European works council completed the committee's constitutive agreement through a specific information-consultation procedure when there are relocations outside the European...
21 November 2007
EADS: EWC gets code of conduct in terms of confidentiality
Members from EADS' European works council agreed to adopt a code of conduct regarding the respect of the confidentiality of information the management gives the committee. The text was adopted by...
21 November 2007
Italy: Vodafone social partners agreed on activity transfer’s conditions
The management of the telephone company Vodafone Italy signed, with the three main telecom unions, an agreement concerning the transfer of one of the company's activity branches to the Comdata...
20 November 2007
RR Donnelley: UNI Global asks for a global framework agreement
In a letter sent to the executive officer of the international printing group RR Donnelley, signed by 14 union organisations around the world, the trade union federation UNI Global asks for the...
19 November 2007
Great Britain: flexible work, pension rights and dispute resolution on the government’s programme
In her annual speech delivered on November 6, the Queen announced the labour government's programme for the coming months. Labour law is involved, with three key-measures: extending flexible work...
19 November 2007
Italy: increased metalworkers’ mobilisation for the second national strike for the renewal of their national collective agreement
Over 200.000 participants to the 14 regional demonstrations and a support rate of almost 90% to the 8-hour national strike. These are union results for the Friday November 16 mobilisation for the...
19 November 2007
Germany: IG Metall threatens Airbus to strike to ensure the future of employees from four factories on sale
In the "Augsburg Declaration", presented on November 14, 2007, the IG Metall union, Airbus Germany's central works council and the WC of Airbus' Augsburg factory set their conditions so that the...
16 November 2007
Areva: implementation of agreement on equal opportunities, interview with Maureen Kearney
After the European Commission's approval to pay for the implementation plan for the agreement on equal opportunities within the group (see our story No. 070947), Maureen Kearney, secretary of...
16 November 2007
France: lasting conflict on special pension schemes
The strike against the reform on special pension schemes has been going on since November 13 among railway workers and in the urban transports around Paris. Union confederations' leaders, on the...
16 November 2007
Denmark: social partners’ first reactions to legislative elections
After the early legislative elections of Tuesday November 13, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, leader of the liberal party Venstre and leader of the liberal-conservative coalition which has been governing...
16 November 2007
Italy: first employment agency managed by union
The Cisl is starting a pilot experience creating an employment agency in the city of Bolona and is thus becoming the first union to ever propose such an idea. After an experimentation phase, it...
15 November 2007
Germany: bill to “unblock” labour and social security courts
The Ministers' Council (Bundeskabinett) adopted, on Wednesday, November 13, 2007, a bill which concerns both labour courts and "social”"courts (cases depending from social security law). The bill...
15 November 2007
Germany: the federal labour court recognised the preservation of the company’s pension scheme in case of transfers
In a ruling rendered on November 13, 2007, the federal labour court gave satisfaction to an employee whose firm was bought off. It gave him the right to preserve the level of his company pension...
15 November 2007
France: CNE does not comply with ILO rules
Seized with a claim from the LO union, the ILO - International Labour Office - judged, in a report published on November 14, 2007, that the provisions of the ordinance 2005-883 of the French...
15 November 2007
EU: EWC creations and negotiations in the building sector
Whereas two German groups in the building sector signed agreements to create or renew EWCs, the French group Bouygues, also present in this sector launched the negotiation of a new agreement after...
15 November 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