All articles

Great Britain: employers who don’t pay the minimum wage will be fined much more and quicker
Within the framework of its policy against rogue employers, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has just announced the creation of a £ 225 fine -per worker and per day- for employers who...
EU: European social diary of January 15 to March 21st 2007
We provide you with a diary on the main events concerning social Europe and the institutional appointments. You can forward to us your scheduled events to the following address...
France: law extending employee savings schemes in SMEs is adopted
A law for the development of profit-sharing and employee shareholding, definitively adopted on December 14th and published in the Official Journal, aims at increasing the buying power while...
Spain: building contractors propose a series of measures to avoid work accidents
SEOPAN, the employers' organization representing the major building firms, answer to the report presented by the Ministry of Labour, in November 2006, which analyzed in-depth the causes of 509...
Sweden : trade unions ready for wage negotiations
Trade unions are filling their bank accounts in the perspective of collective conflicts linked to wage negotiations. This preparation is taking place within a tensed social environment, since the...
Poland: a new era for salaries?
e-europnews January 9, 2007, n°070011 -www.eeuropnews.com
British Airways: agreement on the auditing of the pension fund deficit
British Airways announced on Friday January 5th an agreement with the staff representatives in order to soak up within ten years the pension fund's huge deficit, more than three billion euros. The...
EU : old Member States maintain restrictions on freedom of movement for Bulgarian and Romanian workers
Sweden and Finland will be the only two "old" Member States of the European Union not to restrict the access of their labour market to workers of the new Member States which joined the EU on...
GeoPost: launching of a negotiation to set up a European work’s council
The holding which gathers since 1999 all the subsidiary shipping companies of the French group La Poste, in France and abroad, GeoPost, will set up a European work's council during spring 2007. In...
Germany: major trade unions want strong wage increases for 7 million employees
In accordance with IG Metall claims, Verdi (services) and IG BCE, the trade union for chemicals and energy known for its very moderate positions, demand that employees finally be given part of the...
France: government restricts the entry of Romanian and Bulgarian workers
Whereas Bulgaria and Romania have just integrated the European Union, France announced that it would use the possibility offered to Member States to temporarily limit the access to their labour...
EU : Official Journal of the EU publishes several legislative texts
Several European legislative texts have been published in the EU Official Journal including the emblematic "Services" directive and the "Reach" regulation. The legislation on the European...
BenQ: the majority of employees is now employed by two “transfer companies” financed by Siemens
BenQ Deutschland, the former subsidiary company of Siemens, sold one year ago to the Taiwanese BenQ, was placed in legal rectification on January 1st 2007. 2300 of the 3000 employees agreed to be...
EU: regulation on the European globalization adjustment fund is published
Three criteria of intervention. Article 2 specifies the criteria of intervention of the fund and clarifies the concept of "major changes in the structure of world trade" leading to "severe...
News suspended until January 8th 2007
We are suspending our news wire until January 8th. Of course, the web site remains open during this period. E-europnews wishes you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
22 December 2006
Most viewed articles of the month on mind HR
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
1
Italy: artificial Intelligence on the menu of Barilla’s new company agreement
Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...
2 September 2026
2
Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
3
France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
4
Germany: a high-tension start to the social and political year
The German government must finalize its major reforms (pension funding, corporate competitiveness, and labor law) while the chancellor’s popularity hits an all-time low and three regional...
5
Sweden: IF Metall union forced to end industrial dispute with Tesla
The news. After three years of conflict, the Swedish union IF Metall announced it would suspend its strike actions against Tesla starting Wednesday, August 19, after the American automaker...
6
United Kingdom: trade unions can now use electronic and workplace voting
The news. The provisions of the UK Employment Rights Act 2025 authorising electronic and workplace voting for trade union ballots came into force on Tuesday, 25 August. They apply to trade union...