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Suez Environnement: signature of a European agreement on gender equality in the workplace
Together, Suez Environnement, the European Federation of Public Service Unions EPSU, and the special negotiation group for the agreement, signed on March 31, a European agreement on gender...
31 March 2015
Sweden: tripartite discussion over improved use of immigrant workers skills
A fast-track (snabbspår) to suitable work. This is what the Swedish social partners are aiming for so that improved integration into the workplace can be achieved for immigrants looking to settle...
31 March 2015
Germany: a 2.8% rise in chemical sector wages plus significant increases in employer contributions to the ‘Demographic Fund’
A 2.8% wage rise over 17 months and over 24 months an almost doubling of employer contributions to the sector’s ‘Demographic Fund’. Thus were the results of collective negotiations in the chemical...
30 March 2015
Italy: renewed union opposition to the Jobs Act
In reply to a call by Fiom, the metals branch of the CGIL union, roughly 15,000 Italian turned out onto the streets of Rome on Saturday March 28 to protest increasing insecurity in the jobs market...
30 March 2015
Safran: European framework agreement for developing skills and career paths
On March 25 the French company together with the European union federation IndustriALL Europe signed an agreement on professional and occupational development. The agreement contains some common...
30 March 2015
Germany: a plethora of different bonuses for workers in automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals
It’s fast becoming a tradition: each good year for the German economy sees a plethora of different bonuses being paid to workers, primarily in the automobile, chemicals and pharmaceuticals...
27 March 2015
Gestamp: the Spanish automotive supplier sets up a EWC
On 29 January 2015, the company Gestamp, a Spanish automobile equipment manufacturer which employs close to 19,000 people in Europe, has signed an agreement to set up a European works council. The...
26 March 2015
United Kingdom: aim of one quarter of company board positions being held by women almost achieved
23.5% of board members in FTSE 100 companies are women, according to the most recent report by Women on Boards. This new figure confirms that the UK is on its way to the goal of 25% of such...
26 March 2015
Austria: one year wage agreement in the electro and electronics industry including a ‘free-time’ option that is guaranteed until 2025
On March 17, the electro and electronics industry social partners agreed to a 2% wage rise for the 50,000 employees in the sector. At the same time the Pro-GE union (industry) and the DPA-dip...
24 March 2015
Great Britain: electronic balloting for strike action on the cards?
With just a few weeks to go before the general election, where a Tory victory would see further restrictions on unions’ right to strike, the LibDem Business Secretary Vince Cable is launching a...
24 March 2015
Great Britain : Community union achieves end of zero hour contracts at postal company, Whistl
The Community union has achieved a breakthrough by negotiating an end to zero hour contracts for its members at Whistl. It has done so through a partnership approach with the employer which has...
23 March 2015
Airbus Group: agreement on employee involvement in the SE (European Company)
At the beginning of March, the aeronautics group, together with the negotiation Group specifically formed for the purpose, signed an agreement covering employee involvement in the future...
23 March 2015
Brazil: 2014, a good year for collective bargaining
On Thursday March 19, the Brazilian trade union related Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (DIEESE) released a report that showed 91.5% of employee/employer...
20 March 2015
ThyssenKrupp: signs a global framework agreement on minimum labor standards.
On March 16, ThyssenKrupp together with the group's works council, the German metal workers union IG Metall, and IndustriALL Global Union signed a global framework agreement on minimum labor...
20 March 2015
Solvay: Forum for international social dialogue set up
For the first time, from 4 to 6 March, the Belgian chemical company organised the “Solvay Global Forum”, platform for international social dialogue. Jean-Christophe Sciberras, Group Director of...
18 March 2015
Ireland: government programme on industrial relations for the coming months
During an industrial relations conference, the TD Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash, discussed the labour programme led by the Irish government, covering the areas of minimum wage and...
17 March 2015
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
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...
8 December 2025
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31 October 2025
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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