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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
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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
Germany: the reform of the low-wages sector is still stuck on minimum wage
Two summit meetings took place this week in Berlin. Despite pressures from some economic sectors and its "social" wing, the conservative party is still refusing an agreement on the introduction of...
29 March 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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Spain: government seeks to strengthen protection for employee whistleblowers
On 28 July, the Spanish Council of Ministers approved a draft bill aimed at providing legal protection to employees who report corruption or breaches of labour law, shielding them from potential...
27 August 2026
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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Netherlands: Uber fined over 800 million euros for automated algorithmic decisions
The news. In a decision dated 17 August, the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined ride-hailing company Uber €825 million for automating decisions regarding driver account deactivations. The...
24 August 2026
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Italy: Crédit Agricole introduces a handbook on managerial behaviour
The document adopted in mid-July by Crédit Agricole Italia and the main banking trade unions goes beyond the proper use of meetings and emails. This six-point handbook aims to foster constructive...
3 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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Germany: introduction of the concept of partial incapacity for work
The news. On 10 July, the German Parliament definitively adopted the “Act to Stabilise Contribution Rates in the Statutory Health Insurance System”...
27 August 2026