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Spain: big telephone companies review their collective agreements
Telefónica, Vodafone and Ono have signed new collective agreements. The three texts follow the same scheme, maintaining employment and with a wage moderation policy where pay is linked with the...
24 April 2013
Italy: tourism employers suspend conventional wage increase and anger unions
Employers’ organizations in the tourism industry decided to suspend payment of the 3rd part of the wage increase provided for in the sector’s national collective agreement from April on. The...
24 April 2013
Italy: Finmeccanica signs agreement on new industrial relations system to better manage future restructurings and improve competitiveness
Finmeccanica, one of the largest industrial groups in Italy, is banking on social dialogue and the involvement of employee representatives to better manage restructurings in some units. This...
23 April 2013
Sweden: agreement in the construction industry tries to define chain of responsibility in cases of subcontracting
The parties said that the agreement signed on April 8, 2013 between Sveriges Byggindustrier, the Swedish Construction Federation, and Byggnads, the Swedish Building Workers’ Union was a...
23 April 2013
Spain: competitiveness agreement at Ford Almussafes
The management of Ford’s plant Almussafes, near Valencia, and the UGT and CCOO unions signed a five-year draft competitiveness agreement to help secure the group’s industrial future. The...
23 April 2013
Portugal: new leader for the General Workers’ Union (UGT) and maybe a tougher stance
The General Workers’ Union (UGT), the second largest union federation in Portugal, has chosen a new general secretary. Carlos Silva, 51, a banking executive, wants to revive debates on collective...
22 April 2013
Austria: 2.8-3/2% wage increase with “free time” option in electrical engineering
The social partners in the electronic and electrical engineering industries reached an understanding, on Friday, April 19, for a wage increase between 2.8 and 3.2% depending on the categories. ...
22 April 2013
Spain: new agreement reviews the general convention in the construction industry
The National Construction Federation (CNC) and the FECOMA.CCOO and MCA-UGT unions signed the partial revision of the sector’s general agreement, which provides for a 0.6% increase in pay scales in...
22 April 2013
Norway: 2013 general agreement provides for a 3.4% increase protecting the buying power of lowest-paid staff
A general agreement was concluded after tense negotiations because of the mediators. Signed between LO (Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions) and its counterpart on employers’ side, NHO...
22 April 2013
Aperam: establishment of a European Works Council
The Luxembourg company created in 2011 after the subsidiarization of the stainless steel division of ArcelorMittal is about to set up a EWC. The negotiated agreement is tainted with the concern...
18 April 2013
Germany: women’s full-time employment rate has dropped between 1991 and 2011
Figures published by the WSI Institute of Economic and Social Research in the Hans-Böckler Foundation show that, with increased labor market flexibility in Germany over recent years, more women...
18 April 2013
Italy: GDF SUEZ Energia Italia tries telework as an alternative to transfers following from restructuring
On April 10, GDF SUEZ Energia Italia and the trade unions signed a framework agreement on telework as an alternative to job cuts and transfers resulting from the group’s restructuring in Italy. ...
17 April 2013
Sweden: SEF electricians’ union saves agreement forcing employers to take union contributions directly from salary
The SEF electricians’ union and corresponding employers’ organization (EIO, the Swedish Electrical Contractors’ Association) have finally reached an agreement, thus avoiding a major strike planned...
16 April 2013
Belgium: unions divided over the single employee/worker status
The social partners recently failed to reach an agreement on the matter of harmonizing statuses for blue-collar and white-collar workers, thus passing it on the government which still needs to...
16 April 2013
Great-Britain: Unite holds its course
The existing general secretary of Unite, the biggest union (with 1.4m members and the biggest affiliate to the Labour Party) has been re-elected for a five year term of office. Len McCluskey beat...
15 April 2013
Sweden: 6.8% wage increase over 3 years for the 500,000 manufacturing workers
Mediators helped reached an agreement in the first weeks of April between the different union and employers’ organizations in the industry. It provides for a 6.8% wage increase over 3 years in...
15 April 2013
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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