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Poland: a bill on workers’ involvement in companies created through cross-border mergers
The Minister of Labour and Social Policy drew up a bill on workers' involvement in companies created through cross-border mergers, aiming at implementing into Polish law some disposals of the...
Linde AG: negociation of a new European works council
Following the fusion, realized on September 6, 2006, between the German company Linde and the British company The BOC Group, the new company, The Linde AG (50.000 employees), specialized in gas...
Fresenius SE : analyze of the agreement on workers’ involvement in the European company
The Fresenius group (107.348 employees,) specialized in medical and pharmaceutical supplies and services, transformed into a European company (Societas Europaea-SE) on July 13, 2007 (see our...
Suspension of e-europnews’ information service
The e-europnews agency will suspend its information service from July 30 to August 17, 2007. As a consequence, you will not receive our information in your mailbox during this period. However, the...
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Alcan: the EWC was consulted on the friendly takeover plan of the Rio Tinto group
The Canadian group Alcan's European work's council met in an extraordinary session on July 25, 2007 in Zurich before the group's CEO, Dick Evans, in order to be informed and consulted on the...
Ireland: planned supervision of temporary work agencies’ activities could be contrary to European law
According to "the Irish Times", the European Commission would have drawn the Irish government's attention at the fact that certain dispositions of the bill on temporary work, which is currently...
EU : towards a liberalization of labour markets in several member States
Suffering from an important workforce shortage, Germany and Austria could soon raise the restrictions imposed on central and eastern European workers on their labour markets. As for Poland and the...
Belgium : a law about the different dispositions concerning labour law was published
A law passed on June 3, 2007, including several dispositions concerning labour law, was published in the Moniteur Belge of July 23, 2007. This text introduces changes to the legislation on the...
Great Britain: first judicial condemnation for the violation of dispositions on workers’ information and consultation
After the Amicus union filed a petition, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (*) condemned for the first time an employer who did not respect his duties resulting from the dispositions concerning...
Italy : social partners agreed to the social pact presented by the government
Union organizations and employers guaranteed the "Protocol concerning foreseeing, labour and competitiveness for tenable equity and growth", presented last Monday by the Romano Prodi government...
EU: interprofessional European social dialogue role players created a website
The three main actors in European social dialogue at the interprofessional level, employers' organizations BusinessEurope and EACSME as well as the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC,)...
Poland : softening of formalities to employ citizens from adjacent countries
By virtue of a decree from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, passed on June 27, 2007 and effective since July 20, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian citizens can work on the Polish soil...
Fesenius: the German group changed into a European Company
The Fresenius group (107.348 employees,) specialized in supplies and medical and pharmaceutical services, changed into a European Company. After the favourable vote from he shareholders' general...
Spain: analyze of the law on the independent worker’s status
The law on the independent worker's status was published on July 12, 2007 in the official bulletin (see our dispatch n° 070629) and will come into effect on October 12, 2007. Francisco Gomez...
Slovakia : the new Labour Code comes into effect in September
After a very intense dialogue connected with a strong battle between the coalition and opposition, trade unions and employers' representatives, the major new measure of 2007, the amendment to the...
Italy: the government and union organizations agreed on the pensions’ reform
After eight hours of tense negotiations, the government and the three unions CISL, UIL and CGIL signed, on Friday July 20, at 5:30 in the morning, the agreement for the pensions' reform, which was...
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...