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Denmark: government to adopt experimental measure allowing employees to finance the company with their salaries
The growth plan for the food industry, presented by the government on December 16, includes an experimental model allowing employees to invest part of their remuneration into the company to...
18 December 2013
Germany: negotiations for the introduction of minimum wage in the meat industry have failed
Even though their positions were closer, the food and catering union (NGG) and the food employers’ organization (VDEW) failed, on Tuesday, December 17, to adopt a collective agreement introducing...
18 December 2013
Spain: CCOO tightens union structure and announces merger between several federations
CCOO is reducing its structure, centralizing services and preparing to merge certain federations to become more effective and flexible to facilitate union work in businesses. The construction and...
18 December 2013
Solvay: Global Corporate Social Responsibility Agreement signed with IndustriALL Global Union
The merger between Solvay and Rhodia is a successful example of integration in terms of social dialogue culture. The global CSR agreement signed yesterday, December 17, by Jean-Pierre Clamadieu...
17 December 2013
Austria: key social points of the new government’s program
The new Austrian government that came out of the election of September 29 has been in force since Monday, December 16. The previous Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, M. Rudolf...
17 December 2013
Spain: union and employers’ organizations subject to new transparency regulations
The transparency act, which determines the conditions to access information about the management and usage of public money came into force on December 10. It contains the obligation for union and...
17 December 2013
Great Britain: BMW and Unite sign agreement on the permanent recruitment of 1,000 agency workers
Following a deal struck between the Unite union and BMW, 1,000 agency workers will be given permanent contracts with guaranteed job security beyond 2020. Seven hundred are to be made permanent...
16 December 2013
Germany: Andrea Nahles, 43, SPD general secretary, becomes the new Minister for Employment and Social Affairs
After the members of the social-democratic party, SPD, agreed, on December 14, to the coalition contract negotiated since the end of September by the Christian Unions (CDU/CSU) and the SPD, Angela...
16 December 2013
Italy: Alenia Aermacchi strikes deal with unions on new hours system in aviation industry
On November 14, Alenia Aermacchi signed, with the Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions and the employee representatives of its Grottaglie undertaking (Taranto), an agreement on the organization of labor that...
13 December 2013
Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway and social partners sign agreement preventing social dumping
On December 10, Metroselskabet signed a partnership agreement with union and employers’ organizations to improve joint actions against social dumping, to that the sites comply with the country’s...
12 December 2013
Germany: the number of apprenticeship contracts reaches another record level in the chemical industry
On December 11, the IG BCE union and the sector’s employers’ organization, BAVC, gave a unanimously positive report of their collective agreement on apprenticeship, signed in 2003 and renewed...
12 December 2013
Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules
Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...
12 December 2013
Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement
After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...
11 December 2013
Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry
On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...
11 December 2013
Great Britain: groundbreaking deal in working conditions and job security at the now privatised postal operator, Royal Mail
The now privatised Royal Mail has agreed in principle a ground-breaking new agreement on terms and conditions of employment with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for the company’s 139,000...
10 December 2013
Belgium: draft social agreement on the restructuring of ArcelorMittal’s Liege sites
After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains...
10 December 2013
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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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Germany: standoff over national plan to boost collective bargaining
Under the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, Germany is required to produce an action plan to boost collective bargaining coverage. That plan has stalled, however, after being blocked by the...
9 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