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Great Britain: “Petroleum Driver Passport” coming soon
This is the biggest consequence of the major conflict between Unite the union and the seven main fuel distribution companies in 2011 and 2012. The Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition...
5 December 2013
Germany: IG-Metall enters windmill maker Enercon, a previously unapproachable stronghold
At the end of November, workers at the 9 undertakings of the biggest wind turbine maker in Germany, Enercon, elected, for the first time ever, a works council. The election – launched in...
5 December 2013
Italy: after its historical breakthrough at the union election of Ilva in Taranto, the USB independent union is looking more and more like the union alternative
The Unione Syndicale di Base (USB), which ran for the first time for the RSU election in Ilva in Taranto – the largest factory in Italy – on November 27-29, is becoming the second largest union...
4 December 2013
Amazon: the Verdi union in Germany, Solidarnosc in Poland and OSPO in the Czech Republic join forces against online sales company
While the German employees of the biggest online store on the planet, Amazon, are dreading the opening of 2 new sorting sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, which could cause some sites to...
4 December 2013
Great Britain: Labour Party leader reviews reform of the union-party relationship
The leadership of the Labour Party is taking steps to avert a showdown with affiliated unions over reforming the union-party relationship, which aims to limit unions’ influence within the party...
3 December 2013
Spain: Mercadona retail chain’s new agreement provides for wage increases that aren’t linked with inflation
Disconnecting wage increases from CPI is one of the major injunctions made by Brussels in the name of internal devaluation, judged as inevitable for the country to renew with competitiveness. And...
3 December 2013
Italy: wave of strikes in local public transport
After the meeting at the Ministry of Labor failed on November 28, local public transport (LPT) unions confirmed the national 4-hour strike of December 16 to support the renewal of the national...
3 December 2013
Portugal: difficult social dialogue over the extension of pension contributions
The social partners started discussing retirement with unions in total rejection. The CGTP and UGT refuse the draft bill planning to increase retirement age to 66 in 2014. The government intends...
3 December 2013
Germany: Verdi services union signs collective agreement with two Deutsche Post subsidiaries
After a major conflict punctuated by several days of warning strikes at national level, the Verdi services union announced, on December 2, that it had signed a collective agreement with two...
3 December 2013
Spain: new professional categories in the hotel industry make functional mobility easier
On November 26, union and employers’ organizations in the hotel industry signed the new chapter of the national sectoral agreement that supervises the working conditions of 1 million employees in...
2 December 2013
Germany: temporary recruitments are Daimler’s answer to regulatory pressure on service provision contracts
The “Grand Coalition” made up of conservatives and social-democrats isn’t in power yet but is surely getting there. Its program, revealed on November 27, contains the introduction of statutory...
2 December 2013
Belgium: federal recovery program provides for contribution cuts of €1.3bn
On Friday, November 29, the federal agreement agreed on measures to support competitiveness and employment on financial (labor, energy or capital cost) and non-financial aspects (innovation...
2 December 2013
Great Britain: private sector wins employees’ trust
Private sector workers feel safer about their job than in the public sector, according to the latest Workplace employment relations study. In spite of the crisis, the private sector played its...
2 December 2013
Spain: Cemex workers agree to cut pay by 25 percent
Workers at Cemex’s Alicante plant have accepted the company’s offer to cut pay by 25 percent. The 5 other Spanish plants of the Mexican cement group already gave in to the management’s demands...
29 November 2013
Prosegur: Spanish private security giant accused of violating workers rights in 4 Latin American countries
UNI Global Union filed a complaint for violation of the OECD’s guidelines with the Spanish national contact point, as this is where Prosegur’s headquarters are located. The private security...
29 November 2013
Great Britain: parental leave and working mothers at the center of the political debate
British employers are carefully watching the papers to know what the government is going to decide in terms of parental leave. Indeed, this issue has become the bone of contention within the...
28 November 2013
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
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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...
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