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Daimler Chrysler reduces the duration of its Board Members’ mandates
“This change only refers to renewal of positions. The maximum duration of the mandate was already limited to three years within the framework of a first appointment to the board” said a spokesman...
28 August 2006
Agfa Gevaert announces 1560 job cuts in Europe
The group installed, in Antwerp, announced a vast restructuring in order to safeguard the company's competitiveness. Belgium is the country the most concerned by this process. (Ref. 06824)
Poland: the American company Dell creates 12,000 jobs
Dell is going to create 12,000 jobs in Poland. Following negotiations, the American company is moving into Lodz, the second largest town in the country with a million inhabitants. This investment...
The European social Diary of August 29 to November 23, 2006
We provide you with a weekly diary on the main events involving social Europe and institutional appointments. You can forward us your schedules of events to the following address...
28 August 2006
Germany: Faced with an uncertain return to work, the employees of the Deutsche Bahn AG (railways) and of Volkswagen, clutch at ways to secure their jobs
Deutsche Bahn – What future for the workers following privatisation? – Though clearly better off than their automobile colleagues, the 230,000 ‘rail workers’ are, nevertheless, worried about their...
European Social Partners report progress on a voluntary agreement on « work-related stress»
The European Social Partners will add the finishing touch to a report tabling the first ‘"scene" in the application of their voluntary agreement on work-related stress completed in October 2005...
The Netherlands: Polish dockers not wanted
On 22nd August, the two biggest union groups in the Netherlands and the Dutch employers' association (AWVN) clashed over the disembarking of Polish dockers in Dutch ports. (Ref. 06818)
Great Britain: The TUC recommends those over 50 stay in work in order to defuse the pension time-bomb
The TUC condemns the fact that more than a million Britons aged between 50 and 65 are out of work against their wishes because employers will not keep them on. The Congress calls for the...
Germany : the adoption of the minimum wage in the industrial cleaning sector (850.000 employees) reignites the debate over a legal minimum for all employees
Last August 23, the German cabinet decided to extend to the industrial cleaning sector (Entsedegesetz) the law on questions linked to the posted workers within services provision. As is already...
Finland: the legislation related to the CSR to be amended
Finland is about to amend the Social Enterprise Act, in force since 2004, supposed to solve the unemployment of people in difficulty but which appeared to be quite inefficient. (Ref. 06815)
24 August 2006
Germany: the Federal Employment Agency forecasts a record surplus of 9 billion euros by 2006
It has been known since last spring that the Federal Employment Agency will finish the year with a very positive balance sheet. Officially, the BA announced a surplus of 4.5 bn...
France: reform of the Department of Employment
New role supporting the implementation of rights at work.  From now on the General Management of Work (DGT), which replaced ‘work relationship management’, “prepares, encourages and co-ordinates...
Spain: 50% of employees are not managing to reconcile working and family life
Difficult to reconcile. A majority of waged workers in the private sector, 56.7%, recognise that it is difficult for them to take days off for family reasons. In the public sector, the number of...
Slovakia: new Government promises changes
New Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, in the government's statement released this month mentioned changes to the Labour Code and to the tax system and system of social benefits. The government...
Lithuania: employees asked to say « no to envelopes»
The Lithuanian institutions of inspection launched several actions in order to fight against the practice of the "envelopes", i.e. dissimulation of part of the wages. The first devices set up at...
Great Britain: Influx of workers from the new EU member states reignites the debate on immigration
The political debate.  Faced with this massive influx, which reignites the debate over the weight of immigration, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, Alistair Darling, appears to not be...
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