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At its second reading in Parliament on March 7, the bill presented by the Labor MP John Heppell which aims at extending to investment funds the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)...

10 March 2008

Denmark: unions revive the issue of ethical investment by pension funds

The two union confederations LO and FTF are ready to amend the guidelines of the policy of the mandatory ATP (Arbejdsmarkedets Tillægspension - supplementary pension investment fund) after what...

27 February 2008

Spain : the fashion sector mobilizes to promote the corporate social responsibility

Specific measures for small firms. The participants also recalled that CSR policies are a necessity not only in third countries but also in Spain and Portugal where a host of small workshops...

20 February 2008

EU: ETNO and UNI Telecom adopt a statement on social responsibility

During the last sectoral social dialogue committee which took place on December 4, 2007 in Warsaw, European social partners in the telecommunications sector, the ETNO for employers and the UNI...

12 February 2008

Luxembourg: employers commit to corporate social responsibility

The union of Luxembourg enterprises (UEL), the Grand Duchy's employers' organization, decided to promote a "true sustainable development culture" with the creation of the "National Institute for...

25 January 2008

Spain: government and social partners signed a corporate social responsibility agreement

According to the agreement signed by the social dialogue follow-up commission, the government must create a CSR national committee, in which the most representative employers' and union...

7 January 2008

Germany : Siemens has already sanctioned 470 workers implicated in a corruption affair and encourages whistle-blowing among other employees

dal has assumed unexpected proportions. The biggest German technology group acknowledged on November 8, 2007 having discovered in its accounts suspicious transactions amounting to 1.3 billion...

12 November 2007

EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields

Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and...

30 October 2007

Italy: CGIL started talks on internal divisions after the referendum on the social protocol

The union's management accepted, on October 23, to launch a reflection on the results of the referendum on the social protocol which split the Cgil (see our article No. 070747). Some people...

26 October 2007

Great Britain: the union TUC launched a website to inform Polish workers of their rights

The trade union confederation TUC - along with the Polish union Solidarnosc and the British public information service Citizens Advice- launched, on October 25, a website for Polish people...

25 October 2007

Netherlands: frozen stock options for managers selling their company

The Dutch parliament decided, on October 17, 2007, to freeze the stock options and social shares belonging to managers of companies listed on the stock market as soon as they become the target of...

18 October 2007

Poland: campaign to certify worker friendly companies

The Solidarnosc union launched, on October 15, a national campaign to certify companies favourable to workers, a sort of label granted to companies which respect workers' rights. The action is...

15 October 2007

EU: unions from the cement sector ask for an efficient enforcement of international framework agreements

During the first world conference on cement, organized on June 22 and 23, 2007 in Portugal by three trade union federations (the European Federation of Building and Wood Workers - EFBWW, the...

9 July 2007

Inditex: the textile group wants to assume its global corporate social responsibility

Inditex is taking seriously its role of global company and its social responsibility policy. The textile group, which owns Zara and which recently intervened in favour of the defense of employees'...

4 July 2007

Germany: the corporate governance code limited to two years the period to calculate the benefits paid to managers

Gathered on June 14, 2007, the governmental commission on good governance adopted several measures, including the limitation of executives' retirement benefits, the appointment modalities for the...

22 June 2007

Thomson: free share handing out to the group’s employees

The French group Thomson decided, on June 21, 2007, to carry out a free distribution of shares in favour of all of Thomson's employees on June 1, 2007, as well as employees from its involved...

22 June 2007

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