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United States: machinists at Boeing give up traditional pension to maintain production for the future 777X
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has just made a major compromise for Boeing. In return for producing the future 777X in Washington State, where the company...
6 January 2014
Sweden: the agreement signed in the banking industry provides for a guaranteed wage increase over 3 years
The Finansförbundet union caused a sensation in September when it decided to terminate the agreement binding it to the BAO employers’ organization but only on the ‘remuneration’ chapter. ...
23 December 2013
Hungary: new union landscape
Announced on May 1, 2013, the merger between the largest union confederations, MSZOSZ (national confederation of Hungarian unions), SZEF (Forum for union cooperation) and ASZSZ (Confederation of...
23 December 2013
Greece: overnight, Hellas Online, the telecom operator, fires its employees and has them re-hired by a subcontracting firm
Hellas Online, one of the key internet and telecom providers in Greece, has decided to outsource some of its activities to focus on its core business. This strategy affects nearly 60 percent of...
20 December 2013
Loomis AB: international framework agreement signed with UNI Global Union
On December 19, UNI Property Services and the Swedish Transport Workers’ Union (STWU) signed a global agreement with the Swedish cash transportation company, Loomis AB. Mostly present in Europe...
20 December 2013
Great Britain: more than 2 million employees have already enjoyed the reform of automatic enrollment to a pension fund
More than 2.2 million British people started paying contributions to a pension fund within the framework of the auto-enrollment reform. The reform aims to ‘force’ British workers to save for...
20 December 2013
Meliá and IUF sign global framework agreement which will apply to all hotels under Melia’s brands, whether they are owned, managed or franchised
The IUF (Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel global union federation) and Meliá Hotels International, the Spanish-headquartered hotel chain with over 38.000 employees worldwide, have signed, on December...
19 December 2013
Japan: lifetime employment, an endangered moral contract
In a country famous for “lifetime employment,” it seems that job security in japan has now become obsolete. With exports falling because of the Japanese bubble burst in 1989 and the economic...
19 December 2013
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
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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
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
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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