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Great Britain: the government is launching a consultation on minimum wage and illegal labour
Anxious to consolidate the legislative frame around minimum wage, the Ministry of Labour and Industry launched a consultation aiming at working out the means to guarantee fair compensation to...
Spain: two million open term contracts were signed since the reform of the labor market
One year after the agreement between the government and social partners for the reform of the labor market was signed, two million open term contracts were signed, according to the figures given...
Denmark: employers are powerless on their employees’ parental leaves
The Danish Supreme Court wiped out employers' hopes to have a say in the way their employees take their parental leave, even if it causes them troubles in their organization. Employers deplore...
EU: European trade unions are mobilized to defend the public postal service
European trade unions affiliated to the European federation UNI-Europa are considering the possibility to organize mobilization actions throughout all of the EU's countries in order to protest...
EU: the ETUC’s 11th Congress launched the offensive for a social Europe
The European trade union confederation (ETUC) 11th congress, which started today and will end on May 24, groups together 700 participants to define the strategy for European organization of the...
Delphi: the European federation of metalworkers is organizing a new action day
"We are currently confronted to the gradual dismantling to a large degree of Delphi's industrial activity in the EU", declared the European federation of metalworkers (EFM) about the American car...
Germany: the “Riester pension” is approaching the 8.5 million contracts mark
The complementary pension via capitalization adopted in 2002 is appealing to more and more Germans. After a sluggish start, the number of subscribers keeps increasing. For the first trimester of...
Belgium: a new regulations on employees’ support
A royal decree established new duties in terms of workers' welcome and support. This text imposes that the beginner's welcome and support by an experienced worker be organized. Moreover, the...
Tallink: unions are asking for the creation of a European work’s council
Together, sea workers unions from Estonia, Sweden and Finland asked the Estonian marine company Tallink – providing passenger transportation in the Baltic sea – to create a European work's...
Great Britain: a guide on the governance of defined benefits pension schemes
The British pension regulator elaborated a guide for trustees of defined benefits pension schemes confronted to the risk to see a member company's obligations or guarantees diminish, following a...
Great Britain: a consultation on paternity leave launched
The Minister of Labour and Industry launched, on May 14, a consultation on paid paternity leave, which should enable fathers, after six months, to take over from the mother, when the latter does...
Great Britain: racism in companies denounced
Racism at work is the first flak expressed by ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom, according to the commission for racial equality. Out of the over 5,000 complaints it received during the last...
France: Nicolas Sarkozy, the new president, is presenting his reform program
The candidate Sarkozy's reform in the social marked the presidential campaign, placing "the rehabilitation of labour value" as one of his main strengths. Exempting extra hours from taxes...
EU: the Commission adopted a draft directive bill planning sanctions against employers who hire citizens from third countries illegally
The college of Commissioners adopted, on May 16, a draft directive planning sanctions against people employing people from countries outside of the European Union staying illegally in the country...
International: Indian unions are protesting in Rotterdam against the violation of workers’ rights by Unilever’s Indian subsidiary
Members from the Indian union HLEU came to protest, on May 15 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, against Unilever's anti-union practices in India. Their action was supported by the European trade union...
Scor: synthesis of the agreements setting up a common committee for the group’s three European companies
The three agreements on workers' involvement within the European companies Scor global P&C EC, Scor global life EC and Scor EC were adopted by each future EC's special negotiations group. A common...
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...