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Great Britain: 4% pay rise for Sainsbury’s supermarket staff
Under pressure from campaigning efforts to raise low pay, Sainsbury’s, Britain’s number two supermarket chain, has raised most of its employees’ pay by 4%. This marks a surprise pay rise given...
31 August 2015
Randstad: a new European Works Council (under European Directive 2009/38/EC) replaces its former agreed voluntary structure
Since 1996 the Dutch multinational employment agency has operated under an agreed voluntary information and consultation structure (the Randstad European Platform). On 10 July 2015, together with...
29 July 2015
Belgium: the government starts shifting the tax burden from employment revenue towards a broader spectrum of revenue sources
“An engine for growth and employment,” is how Prime Minister Charles Michel presented the agreement on the 2015 budget adjustment and the 2016 draft budget that was concluded on the night of 22/23...
24 July 2015
Spain: Coca-Cola’s restructuring plan cancelled and company has to give workers back their jobs if they want
Following the court’s cancellation of Coca-Cola Spain’s redundancy plan the company is preparing to reopen its Madrid site as a logistics center whilst keeping its other three sites shut...
24 July 2015
United States : towards a 15$ minimum wage in New York’s fast-food industry
After almost two years of mobilization, a decision by local authorities on Wednesday will see fast–food workers in the State of New York earning a minimum wage of $15 an hour in 2021 (in 2018 of...
23 July 2015
Great Britain: Lloyds Bank Group derecognizes one of its founding trade unions amid intra-trade union discord
The Lloyds Bank Group is to derecognise its biggest union, the Lloyds Trade Union (LTU) that represents some 30,000 members in the group. This results from a breakdown in industrial relations with...
20 July 2015
Italy: Fim and Uilm present a common platform to renew the national metal sector collective agreement
On 16 July both management centers in Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil approved a common platform to renew the metal sector national collective agreement (from 2016-2018) that comes to expiry on 31 December...
20 July 2015
Great Britain: Unite using social media to campaign Pizza Express to fully pass customer tips to its staff
The upmarket pizza restaurant chain, Pizza Express, which has 400 restaurants and over 10,000 employees, is experiencing a social media campaign to force the company to end its practice of...
17 July 2015
Great Britain: Brexit remains a hot topic for the summer
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Such is the thorny question to which the British will conclusively reply by 2017. This referendum already worries and divides...
16 July 2015
Israel: first agreements over employee transfer conditions signed by Histadrut in the hi-tech sector
On 24 June the Israeli trade union organization Histadrut signed two collective agreements for employees of the Israeli-American company Comverse. The agreements cover conditions for workers due...
16 July 2015
Norway: principle of equal treatment breached to the benefit of temporary work agencies
On 06 July 2015 the Labor Administration adopted a regulation allowing temporary work agencies to waive equal treatment rules under certain conditions. Business leaders bodies have welcomed the...
16 July 2015
Germany: two forward thinkers to take over at the helm of IG Metall from October 2015
IG Metall, the world’s biggest sectoral trade union with 2.3 million members is about to renew its management team. On 14 July management at the union designated its candidate to succeed the...
15 July 2015
International Aerospace industry unions adopt an action plan to bolster their influence and combat precarious work
Representatives of 25 aerospace unions in 16 countries across 5 continents came together on July 01 and 02 for a global conference on strengthening union presence in the sector and structuring...
15 July 2015
Belgium: agreement for the large-scale retail sector on work organization and security inside the shops
Negotiations were long and tense between the union organizations and COMEOS, the commerce sector’s employers’ federation but ended in agreement on 29 June. Disagreement had centered on the issue...
15 July 2015
Russia: economic crisis weighs on the labor market
Recruitment consultancy firm Antal presented the results of a 2015 study on salaries and the Russian labor market. The study included results from 5,000 respondents from different Russian towns...
13 July 2015
Société Générale: a new addendum to the EWC puts in place a single representation entity for the group in France and Europe
On July 09, Société Générale’s Comité de Groupe France (CGF) (French Works Council) agreed to merge with the EWC. The addendum regulating the operations of the new Comité de Groupe Européen, the...
9 July 2015
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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.
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...
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