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Portugal: social consultation starts over the minimum wage
Antonio Costa’s new socialist government has launched a debate on raising Portugal’s minimum wage. The Prime Minister invited the country’s social partners in person to the first social...
11 December 2015
Belgium: social partners conclude an agreement on the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on economic unemployment
In the evening of 09 December, both unions and business leaders concluded an agreement over government proposals on both the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on...
10 December 2015
Great Britain: CWU signs a radical new job security and attendance pattern agreement with BT telecommunications
Members of the Communications Union (CWU) have strongly backed the ‘Transformation Agreement’ their union negotiated with BT Consumer operations, the customer care and service operations wing of...
9 December 2015
Germany: management at Siemens together with the company’s central works council and the IG Metall union collaborate to stimulate employee creativity by way of an ‘innovation fund’
In a joint declaration published on 08 December the Siemens works council (WC) and the IG Metall union announced they had concluded an agreement with management at the German industrial giant that...
9 December 2015
Italy: Michelin comes to agreement with unions over its reorganization plan
Following worker mobilization, the French tyre maker came to an agreement with the unions over reorganization in Italy’s Piedmont region where it employs some 3,700 workers. In the agreement one...
7 December 2015
United States: the UAW strikes an historic victory in the U.S. south during union elections at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee
The United Auto Workers union UAW has finally got its foot in the door of the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee. The skilled trades workers on the Passat assembly line voted by 108 in...
7 December 2015
Netherlands: PostNL signs a new five-year agreement to help manage its upcoming business reorganisation
In October 2015 management at PostNL together with the unions FNV, CNV, and VHP2 concluded an agreement in principle over a social plan for the Dutch postal operator. Employees voted in favour and...
4 December 2015
Finland: negotiations to renew collective agreements and improve competitiveness are going nowhere
Echoing the position it adopted in 2007 the business leaders body for industry, EK, announced at the end of November that it was refusing to negotiate a new cross-industry framework agreement on...
4 December 2015
Spain: political parties present their proposals in front of the general election on 20 December
As campaigning starts for the general election on 20 December, the main political parties are putting forward their proposals to reform labor legislation and free up the jobs market.
3 December 2015
Portugal: the new socialist led government looks to consumption to relaunch the economy
António Costa’s socialist government has announced a series of measures that should relaunch the economic activity in 2016. Measures abolishing certain austerity led taxes and levies imposed...
3 December 2015
Germany: during its ‘Job Summit’, Lufthansa and the unions agreed to deepen their cooperation
Plagued by continuous strike action over the past two years, on Wednesday 02 December, Lufthansa invited the three unions that are established within the company; Verdi (ground staff), Ufo (flight...
2 December 2015
Italy: Enel signs a development and innovation protocol promoting generational replacement
On 27 November, Italy’s energy company, Enel together with the unions signed a protocol on development and innovation that includes a framework agreement on “intergenerational solidarity and...
2 December 2015
Switzerland: the private postal service sign their first ever collective agreement
On Monday 30 November, social partners from the private post sector, the employers’ federation KEP & Mail and two postal sector trade unions Syndicom and Transfair, announced that they have...
1 December 2015
Great-Britain: JCB and GMB union agree reduced working week to save jobs cuts
GMB union members at four JCB companies (construction machinery) have voted to begin a temporary period of short-time working to stave off compulsory redundancies amongst a number of their...
1 December 2015
Argentina: the social consequences of Mauricio Macri’s presidential election win
On 22 December Argentina voted in a reforming liberal as the country’s president. Difficult social negotiations are expected as a result of tough economic measures that will have to be taken and...
26 November 2015
Germany: steel industry wages to rise by 2.3%
75,000 workers in the steel industry, employed by the large steel companies in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, and Bremen that produce most of Germany’s steel, are set to receive a 2.3% rise...
26 November 2015
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5 March 2026
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.
29 January 2026
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...
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026