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EU: the European Parliament will soon adopt its report in the first reading of the draft directive on the portability of the supplementary pension rights
The European parliament should speak out on April 23, in a first reading, for or against the proposal for a directive on the portability of the supplementary pension rights. The draft report...
2 April 2007
Spain: static electricity present in the new headquarters of Gas Natural might have sickened over 200 employees
The number of victims from the "sick edifice syndrome" is already as high as 204 out of the 1,000 employees working at the headquarters of the company Gas Natural in Barcelona and the management...
2 April 2007
Poland: a bill on the penal responsibility of companies breaking labour law
e-europnews April 3, 2007, n°070305 – www.eeuropnews.com
2 April 2007
Germany: a 3.5% raise for building workers
The IG BAU, the building union, agreed this weekend with the central union of building companies (ZDB) on a 3.5%wage increase for almost 700,000 employees. It is the second large wage settlement...
2 April 2007
Belgium: increase of the minimum cross-industry income
During the National Labour Council which met in a plenary session on March 30, 2007, social partners adopted a labour collective agreement with a view to realizing the first step wanted by the...
2 April 2007
Estonia: the new government wants to enhance flexibility on the labour market
The new coalition government in power in Estonia announced that it wanted to increase flexibility on the labour market. In the meantime, public authorities are concentrating on the reasons of the...
2 April 2007
Arcelor-Mittal: the steel group is organizing an internal seminar with the ILO on the international framework agreements’ legal aspects
On April 3 and 4, the Arcelor-Mittal group's management and experts from the International Labor Organization (ILO) will meet in Torino for a seminar dedicated to juridical aspects and dealing...
2 April 2007
Poland: companies are hardly disposed to respect union rights
In several companies, the anti-union strategy is developing under different forms : employees' intimidation, discriminations against those who try to unionize in the private sector, dismissal of...
2 April 2007
Germany: railroaders from the Deutsche Bahn want a wage increase between 7% and 40%
The common Commission for wage negotiations of Transnet/GDBA, the two main railroad unions, published, on March 30, 2007, its wage requirements, that is a 7% increase for the next "tariff...
2 April 2007
Denmark: proliferation of fake Polish building and construction companies
The growing number of individual companies founded by Polish people in Denmark is getting unions worried. They accuse Danish employers of appealing to such fictitious "companies" to avoid some of...
2 April 2007
Belgium: the Court of Justice is sanctioning the Belgian state because it did not transpose the information-consultation directive
The Court of justice of the European Communities condemned, on March 29, 2007, the Belgian government, because it did not transpose into internal law the March 2002 European directive which plans...
2 April 2007
Airbus: union militants heard by the European Parliament’s left unitary political group
The European left unitary group/European Parliament green north left (GUE/NGL, 41 deputies out of 787, mainly representing the communist parties) organized an audition on Airbus and the Power 8...
30 March 2007
France: the Labour Ministry presented a second case to the European Globalization Fund (EGF) for the automotive sector
After asking for almost 500,000 euros -a request made for one of PSA's subcontracting firm - the French Labour Ministry transmitted a new case to the European Commission, in order to help a...
30 March 2007
Germany: the Labour Ministry is denouncing abuses carried out in terms of internships
The Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Franz Müntefering, criticized on March 28, 2007, abuses certain companies carry out in terms of internship. The Ministry created a website for the...
29 March 2007
Strabag: the European Works Council is opening to Serbian employee representatives
The Austrian construction and public works group -Strabag SE - extended the perimeter of its EWC to workers from companies it has purchased in Serbia. As for the EWC's chair, he visited the three...
29 March 2007
Total: a European-wide agreement on the development of small and medium-sized companies was signed
The management of the oil and gas group Total and the European union federations EMCEF, EMFCAI, and EFEER signed, on March 28, 2007, a European agreement concerning the support the French group...
29 March 2007
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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
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...
20 October 2025
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...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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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...
7 November 2025
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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...
28 October 2025
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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...
15 October 2025
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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...
20 October 2025