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The management of Mittal Steel Poland and trade unions signed, March 16, 2006, an agreement guaranteeing employment for workers of IPS Groupe Service, one of its subsidiary companies, until 2009...

17 March 2006

Malta: public opinion unhappy with the pensions reform

The Maltese government’s project to reform retirement pensions causes many criticisms. This reform envisages to make complementary insurance compulsory and to gradually increase the retirement age...

17 March 2006

French Supreme Court validates the law on gender equality in terms of wages

The French "Conseil Constitutionnel" has approved, on 16 March 2006, the law on gender equality in terms of wages, which was passed last 23 February by the Parliament. But the Supreme Court did...

17 March 2006

Germany: Bundestag passes a law aimed at lowering seasonal unemployment for construction workers

A vast majority of the Bundestag passed a law, on 16 March 2006, aimed at fighting against the increasing number of seasonally-unemployed construction workers during winter months (please see our...

17 March 2006

Estonia : trade-unions fear a possible attack on their rights

The Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs has prepared the new draft Employees' Representatives Act, justifing the drafting of the new Act citing the need to transpose into Estonian legislation the...

17 March 2006

Belgium: brewery workers protest against InBev relocation plan

Brewery workers are furious because InBev, one of the biggest beer companies in the world, announced at the end of February that some administrative units will be reorganized, some of them will be...

17 March 2006

Germany: the labour market reform is better than its reputation according to the SPD

During a seminar organized on March 15, 2006 in Berlin by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, close to the Social democrat party (SPD), a series of experts (government, Bundestag, trade unionists...

16 March 2006

Slovene unions are no longer against work on Sundays

Trade unions and employers' organizations will start negotiations on the new collective agreement that will notably establish rules on Sunday and Holiday working hours in stores. (Ref. 06259)

16 March 2006

Hungary: negotiations begin at Suzuki Ltd

Negotiation have begun between the management of Hungarian Suzuki Ltd. and the employees, represented by the LIGA trade union, in order to solve the labor disputes and prevent them in the future...

16 March 2006

The Cottigny report on restructurings and employment is a big surprise

The final text thus goes much further that envisaged (see our article n° 06145) since it asks the Commission to intervene on two “taboo” subjects : restructurings and the revision of the directive...

16 March 2006

Great Britain: a study on the cost of employee fraud for their companies

The cost of fraud for companies increased by 30% over a year to reach almost 1 billion Pounds (nearly 1,5 billion euros) in Great Britain in 2005, according to an investigation of the accounting...

16 March 2006

Germany : lower Saxony, town-scale agreements in public service

After several weeks of strike, the trade union Ver.di and the town employers’ organization of Lower Saxony (KAV) have come to a compromise - on March the 15th - about weekly working time of...

16 March 2006

Czech Republic : German embassy in Prague says Czechs do not use all opportunities to work in Germany

German embassy in Prague claims that Czechs do not use all opportunities to work in Germany. (Réf. 06254)

15 March 2006

Germany : wage negociations in metallurgy become thougher

The conflict in the metallurgical industry , which counts 3.4 million workers in Germany, might get more intense. Faced with the absence of proposal from the employers, IG-Metall answers with a...

15 March 2006

Great Britain: the State is responsible for British employees’ retirement savings losses

Because its responsibility is involved in the disappearance of the retirement savings of almost 100.000 British employees, the government was asked, March 15, to grant compensation to the people...

15 March 2006

Netherlands: three scenarios for reforming the Welfare state

In a report published on March 10, the experts of the central forecasting office (CPB), a consultative body, say new social reforms are needed. Called “ reinventing the Welfare state", this report...

15 March 2006

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