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Austria: agreement on the introduction of a 1.000-euro minimum wage for employees
Going over a point proposed by the coalition ruling, Austrian social partners announced that they found an agreement on the introduction of a 1.000-euro gross minimum wage for all employees, at...
2 July 2007
Germany: minimum wage comes into effect in the industrial cleaning sector
Eleven years after the building sector, the industrial cleaning sector is getting a minimum wage, which came into effect on July 1, 2007. Negotiated by social partners, this minimum wage now...
2 July 2007
EU: first phase of the consultation on transborder transfers of undertaking launched
"It is obvious that we can expect production considerations to become more and more mobile in an economic context influenced by globalization, the EU's enlargement, and the interior market's...
2 July 2007
Cytec : the American chemistry group established an EWC
The American chemistry group Cytec (6.700 employees) established a European works council under the aegis of Belgian legislation to ensure the representation of European employees (almost 1.900...
2 July 2007
Italy: towards a new deal for health at work
Almost 1 million industrial accidents and over 25.000 cases of professional or work-related pathologies are recorded every year in Italy. Facing this situation, a decisive step is expected with...
2 July 2007
Rheinmetall: unions denounced the management’s refusal to take responsibility for an international union representatives’ meeting
The International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) denounced the refusal by the management of the German group Rheinmetall (23.000 employees) to financially support a meeting of trade union...
2 July 2007
France: the Finnish company Aspocomp condemned to pay the social plan of its French subsidiary, placed in liquidation
The Cour de Cassation, the highest French jurisdiction, gave a ruling, on June 19, 2007, confirming the condemnation of the Finnish group Aspocomp, the parent company of Ascopomp's factory in...
2 July 2007
Great Britain: Canadians to help English employees acquire technical skills in the nuclear sector
The Canadian company Atomic Energy of Canada passed a "pioneer" agreement with the largest British trade union, Unite, promising to employ 70 to 80 % of local workforce if it wins the contract for...
29 June 2007
Germany: German unions converted to “organizing”
Organizing pressure groups beyond the labour sphere and creating a "social movement" around a claim, the "organizing" concept developed at the end of the 1980s by American unions seduced German...
28 June 2007
EU: the European Commission proposed “flexicurity principles”
In a communication adopted on June 27, 2007, the European Commission defines the flexicurity concept and proposes common principles to help governments elaborate their national employment policy...
28 June 2007
Suez: three transnational agreements to be signed
The French group Suez and the trade union organizations represented within the European dialogue body are going to sign, on July 3, 2007, three transnational agreements on a financial profit...
28 June 2007
Belgium: elaboration of a tool in favour of equality between men and women.
A workgroup composed of social partners and the Institute for equality between men and women elaborated a new evaluation tool for wage categorization. It is the "no-sexism check list in the...
28 June 2007
BASF EC: election of a special negotiations’ body to negotiate staff representation in the future European Company
Last June 12, staff representatives from the BASF group elected a special negotiations' body composed of 31 people coming from the group's different national companies. By the end of the year, it...
28 June 2007
EU: European social partners from the railroad sector adopted recommendations in favour of women’s employment
European social partners from the railroad sector - the European union federation ETF and the managers' organization CER - signed, on June 12, 2007, in Rome, a series of recommendations to favour...
28 June 2007
EU: joint declaration of European social partners on the postal sector’s evolution
After the vote of the members of the parliamentary Commission European Parliament Transportation, on June 18, 2007, in favour of the report on the liberalization of European postal markets by...
28 June 2007
EU: ten member States did not transpose the directive which makes the training of truck drivers mandatory
The European Commission addressed, on June 27, 2007, a motivated notice to the ten member States because they have not notified the dispositions taken to comply with the directive 2003/59 on the...
28 June 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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France: following the post-Covid boom, large companies scale back on remote working
In the post-pandemic context, large French groups multiplied generous remote working agreements before reversing the trend from 2024 onwards. What is the extent of this phenomenon? mind RH...
29 October 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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France: National Assembly votes for mandatory bargaining on sexual and gender-based violence
The news. On 8 October, French MPs voted to extend the scope of mandatory annual negotiations to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). In practice, in addition to pay, working hours and...
9 October 2026
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France: Iliad structures its skills management around AI
The news. On 9 April, Iliad (11,600 employees in France), the parent company of telecoms operator Free, concluded an agreement on jobs and career path management with its representative trade...
21 October 2026
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France: how CDC Habitat aims to better promote the expertise of its employees
The housing division of the French public group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, CDC Habitat (10,800 employees), established new measures on skills in July. They are set out in two agreements...
15 October 2026
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France: La Poste strengthens regional management of jobs and skills
La Poste’s 2026-2028 agreement on the management of jobs, professional pathways and gender diversity in occupations puts the emphasis on supporting mobility and career changes, relying on a...
22 October 2026