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Belgium: a new collective agreement on the prevention of theft and controls at the exit of the company or workplace
Social partners, who met within the National Labour Council (CNT,) ratified on January 30, the collective agreement n°89, relating to the prevention of theft and controls a the exit of the company...
Czech Republic : the new labour code is in force
The new labour regulations came into effect on January 1, 2007, as initially planned. In the deputies' chamber, the Right wing's efforts to postpone its implementation were vain and the Left...
Italy: several dispositions in terms of security at work
The 2007 finance bill includes several dispositions on health and security at work. They notably plan to extend the obligations of the prime contractors and increase certain fines if the...
Poland: excessive sick leaves are constantly increasing
Excessive sick leaves for non-professional illnesses are, from one year to the other, slightly but constantly rising in Poland. That is what the ZUS (the Polish social security) revealed in its...
Great Britain: a 3.5% increase in wages
The median growth of wages during the last three months is amounting to 3.5% when compared to the same time period a year earlier (from November to January,) according to a recent study from the...
Germany: the Bundesrat gave the green light to the health reform
Two weeks after it was adopted by the Bundestag, on February 2, 2007, the bill on the health reform was ratified, on February 16, by the Bundesrat, the chamber representing the Länder. This vote...
Belgium: new requirements for foreign independent workers and providers of services
To fight against social dumping, social fraud or the exploitation of foreign workers on the Belgian territory, the government elaborated a plan to improve the control of foreign activities in...
EU : Court of Justice defines the concept of establishment for application of the directive on collective redundancies
No autonomy criterion. In this new case, the Court broadens the scope of the definition since it recognises that “an establishment, in the context of an undertaking, may consist of a distinct...
UniCredit: creation of a European WC after the fusion with the bank HVB
The Italian banking group UniCredit (14,000 employees) is creating a European Works Council, following the merger with the HypoVereinsbank bank (HVB) which covers all of the group's European...
EU: European social diary of February 20 to April 24th 2007
e-europnews February 19, 2007, n°070151 – www.eeuropnews.com
Poland: the International Transport workers’ Federation is interceding with LOT’s management to denounce the violation of union rights
The International Transport workers' Federation (ITF) addressed a letter to the air company LOT in which it denounces the fact that the management is confiscating the computing equipment used by...
EU: nine European countries are calling for a revival of social Europe
The Labour Ministries of nine Member States adopted, on February 14, a declaration favorable to a "new impulse for social Europe". A few days to the Council of Ministers of Employment on February...
Netherlands: towards the opening of borders for workers from Eastern European countries on March 1, 2007
The Ministry of Social Affairs published a press release, on February 14, announcing that the Netherlands are ready to open their borders completely, starting March 1, 2007, to workers from the...
EU: the European Federation of Metalworkers meets commissioner Verheugen
An EMF led delegation consisting of trade union representatives and works council members from the European automotive industry met, on February 9, with the Commissioner for Enterprise and...
EU: Uni-Europa Commerce offers to negotiate a framework agreement on violence carried out by third parties on the workplace
During the last session of the social dialogue committee of the commerce sector, on February 8, the European union federation Uni-Europa Commerce offered its managerial interlocutor, EuroCommerce...
Great Britain: the campaign in order to save the Burberry plant is becoming international
The campaign against the closure of the Burberry factory in Treorchy, Wales, grew in importance yesterday, February 14, with strikes in six French, American and English cities. (Ref. 070139)
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British bank Barclays cuts 5,000 jobs to invest in AI
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