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Denmark: tripartite agreement over integrating refugees through work
One in two refugees in work. That’s the government’s goal in an agreement concluded on 17 March between the social partners over integrating refugees via employment. Key to the agreement is the...
18 March 2016
Spain: an agreement with Repsol to ensure respect for the working conditions in sub-contracting companies
Management at the oil group together with the union announced the signing of a cooperation protocol to guarantee respect for suppliers’ employees’ rights who carry out services at the...
17 March 2016
Germany: Minister for Labor, Andrea Nahles, wants to establish “chosen working time” for all, in the medium term
Almost one year after the starting gun was fired in April 2015 for a ‘national dialogue’ over the future of the world of work in the digital age, Andrea Nahles, Federal Minister for Social Affairs...
16 March 2016
United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize in order to reap benefits from the new economy
Belonging to a union as a way to ensure that everyone gains from the new economy. Thus is the message from the Silicon Valley Rising movement, which, as is characteristic of the American...
16 March 2016
Great Britain: trade unions adjust their organization strategies in the face of challenging circumstances
With each under new leadership, three unions are currently undertaking organisational redesign programmes in an effort to re-imagine their role and stave off further decline and by increasing...
16 March 2016
Danone signs a global framework agreement on sustainable employment
On 15 March the giant food-products company together with the sector’s international union federation, the IUF, International Union of Food and Allied workers, announced the signing of a tenth...
15 March 2016
Germany: significant social conflict looms for Volkswagen, already beleaguered by the ‘Dieselgate’ affair
Already caught up in a massive scandal over tampered diesel engines, Germany’s automobile group Volkswagen risks having to deal with considerable social conflict. IG Metall has announced that...
15 March 2016
Spain: UGT’s new leader announces a union that is more transparent and more open to civil society
Josep Maria Alvarez was elected secretary general of the union confederation following a tight vote during the union’s 42nd congress. The Catalan is taking over at a difficult time for the union...
14 March 2016
United States: the IAM machinists union renews its unionization campaign in Boeing’s South Carolina factories
Boeing’s machinists union, the International Association of Machinists (IAM) is renewing attempts to gain a presence in its North Charleston site in South Carolina. The IAM’s campaign halted in...
14 March 2016
Italy: Unicredit signs a first of its kind collective agreement over surplus executive employees
On 08 March Unicredit together with the unions signed an agreement on managing ‘surplus’ executive staff. This is the first of its kind agreement in the sector addressing executive staff...
11 March 2016
Argentina: moderate wage agreement for retailers sets the tone for other sectors
Argentina’s annual salary negotiations have started with the first agreement being concluded without a hitch. On 03 March, the retailers union the country’s largest in terms of membership (1.2...
11 March 2016
France: at least 250,000 in the streets protesting the labor law reform bill
On 09 March 2016, several hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of 130 towns and cities throughout France demanding that the labor law reform bill be withdrawn. The...
10 March 2016
Great Britain: trade unions becoming more politically active and establishing specific political funds
The Society of Radiographers has joined the ranks of those unions with a political fund to allow it engage in political campaigning. Members of the Society voted by 93% (with a 24% turnout of its...
10 March 2016
Germany: work travel distances have greatly increased (DGB Study)
In February, the German Confederation of Trade Unions published a key study on German worker mobility using data supplied by the Federal Statistics Agency, the main result of which is that...
10 March 2016
Italy: the CGIL is to present a citizen’s initiative draft law that ‘reunifies’ labor rights
The CGIL union has established a committee tasked with collecting signatures in support of a citizen’s initiative draft law that completely rewrites Italy’s Labor Code and that sees itself as an...
9 March 2016
Denmark: a marked reduction in the number of conflicts in the private sector
In 2015 the number of strike days in companies belonging to the DA, Denmark’s main employers’ confederation hit its lowest level in twenty five years. According to researchers the drop is as much...
9 March 2016
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Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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EU: social partners split over competitiveness and action on job quality
The European Trade Union Confederation and BusinessEurope have published their response to the consultation document on the European Commission's upcoming EU quality jobs initiative. The two...
4 February 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026