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Lithuania : real estate development and emigration lead to a shortage of contruction workers
The real estate industry will lack 8000 qualified construction workers next year. Some mesaures have been taken, in order to attract foreign workers from non EU countries. (Ref. 06162)
20 February 2006
Estonia: it is still illegal to strike in the public sector
Trade unions keep trying to change the law. But government and Parliament do not want to give civil servants the right to strike. (Ref. 06160)
20 February 2006
Austria: Labor law is amended to restrict competitive clauses and reimbursement of the cost of occupational training
New provisions aim at protecting workers terminating their job contract. (Ref. 06161)
20 February 2006
Bulgaria: trade unions act against labour law violations by an Italian company
The death of two sisters, both workers for the Euroshoes factory in Doupnitsa (small city in the south-west of Bulgaria), lead to a wave of inspections throughout the country and launched a debate...
20 February 2006
The employer cannot make depend a right derivated from the employment relationship with the end of a maternity leave
The Court of Justice of the European Communities ruled on a lawsuit that opposed a Spanish public health institution to one of its female public servants who asked for her maternity leave to be...
17 February 2006
Germany: press review -February 11 to 17, 2006
The strike in the public sector extends and makes Germans angry. (Ref. 06153)
17 February 2006
European deputies remove the country of origin principle from the “Services” directive
European deputies adopted, Thursday February 16, in first reading, the proposal for a Directive relating to the liberalization of services in the EU. They removed the very discussed "country of...
17 February 2006
Portugal Telecom : code of conduct on social responsibility signed with Uni
While France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and Telia/Sonera are still negociating global framework agreements, the Portugsese group of telecom signed a code of conduct about fundamental rights and...
16 February 2006
Netherlands: law simplification and reforms
Before the legislative elections of May 2007, Aart Jan de Geus, the Minister for social Affairs and Employment, will have a difficult decision to take - to open or not the labour market to workers...
16 February 2006
“Services” Directive : interview of Stephan Rodrigues for e-europnews
Lawyer at the Paris Bar, established at the Brussels Bar and associated to the Lallemand and Legros office (Brussels), Stephan Rodrigues comments on the vote, by European deputies, of the...
16 February 2006
Poland: annual negotiations on salaries coming to an end
After March 10, if there is no agreement between trade unions and the employer, the latter can fix himself the rate of increase of the average salary. (Ref. 06157)
16 February 2006
Regulation creating European Globalization Fund will be adopted on March 1st, 2006
The European Commission has announced the adoption, on March 1st, of the regulation creating a European Globalization Fund (see. Réf. 06118). We reveal the principal points of this text which...
16 February 2006
The delay of social security contributions payment does not obstruct the award of public contracts according to CECJ
The Court delivers its first judgment on the option to exclude service providers from a procedure for the award of public service contracts when they have not fulfilled obligations relating to the...
15 February 2006
Italy : the training for employees who work at a height defined
The agreement appoints the organizations in charge of providing training courses about work at a height : regions , automous provinces, Ministry of Labour, l’ISPESL (National Institute of...
15 February 2006
Poland: State, employers and trade unions will negotiate a new social pact
The trade unions and the employers' organisations argue in favour of a new social contract which would tackle labour and employment issues. (Ref. 06148)
15 February 2006
The European Parliament does not insist on the revision of the Directive on the European works councils.
By adopting the report prepared by Jean-Louis Cottigny, in reply to the communication of the European Commission on restructuring in March 2005, the committee on “Employment and social affairs” of...
15 February 2006
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On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025