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Italy: Fiat signs separate agreement for its new national collective agreement
The agreement signed yesterday is “a historical turn for our company and its workers” rejoiced Sergio Marchionne, Managing Director of Fiat S.p.A. and CEO of Fiat Industrial. Valid for one year...
14 December 2011
Romania: minimum wage up to RON 700 in 2012
Planned increase. While the measure has yet to be ratified, the announcement is official. Sulfina Barbu, Romanian Minister of Labor, confirmed that minimum wage would go from RON 670 currently...
14 December 2011
Sodexo: new international framework agreement on fundamental rights at work
In this agreement, “Sodexo commits to see to it that all its employees can access the following fundamental rights, while conforming to the local legislation:
13 December 2011
Germany: IG-Metall and Verdi union compete in industrial service provider companies
Outsourcing boom. According to the IG-Metall, more and more businesses outsource a substantial part of their operations to cut costs, and not only non-strategic operations (catering, cleaning…). ...
13 December 2011
Italy: first unitary strike for the Monti administration
After years of union division, the unitary strike against the government’s austerity program (see our dispatch No. 110750) called for by the CGIL, Cisl and Uil yesterday, December 12, was “fully...
13 December 2011
Great Britain: Unite offers membership of 50p per week to appeal to activists involved in social movements
The move is also an attempt to provide an instance of the union movement having its own version of the ‘big society’, the idea promoted by Prime Minister, David Cameron, whereby many of the...
13 December 2011
Sweden: unions are facing competition from private firms
How to offer union-like services without being a union. Currently, there are two reasons why workers should join a union: their collective rights are defended and they get a multitude of other...
12 December 2011
Groupama: amendment adjusting the EWC agreement to the new European Directive
Information/consultation. Thus, employee representatives are assured “information and consultation at appropriate level and in a timely manner.” Information is defined as “the transmission of...
12 December 2011
Germany: Postbank and Verdi put an end to their conflict on the transfer of employees to external companies
In Verdi’s eyes, this conflict on the transfer, announced last summer, of about 1,500 Postbank employees (out of 22,000) to external companies, within the framework of the DB’s takeover of...
12 December 2011
Carrefour: the French company and UNI Global union create Carrefour Colombia union
Global agreement for the creation of Carrefour unions. On December 1, 112 workers of Carrefour Colombia created their own union organization, called Unión de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de...
12 December 2011
SAP: new agreement establishing a EWC
Atypical philosophy of employee representation. After a two-year bargaining and thinking process, launched in 2009, SAP announced that a majority of the 29 members of the SNB agreed on the final...
12 December 2011
EADS: new European agreement on the harmonization of the variable remuneration of Senior Managers
Senior Managers (L4) working in businesses where EADS holds over 50% of the capital in the countries where the country is primarily present (Germany, UK, Spain, France) are going to be subject to...
11 December 2011
ArcelorMittal: what union strategy after European mobilization?
Investment. Unions say there were 40,000 in Liege, Belgium – police say there were 15,000. In Luxembourg, 95% off ArcelorMittal staff allegedly mobilized. The ArcelorMittal also affected sites...
9 December 2011
Italy: 45th Censis report on the country’s social situation
Employment changes. The crisis slowed down in 2010 (153,000 jobs lost as opposed to 380,000 in 2009) and in 2011 (+0.4% employment boost in the first quarter). However, permanent employment...
9 December 2011
France – Great Britain: union finances, a debate on both sides of the Channel
ce, the issue of union funding came (back) up in public debates in recent days. In the UK, it was the result of a report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which led the Prime Minister to support...
8 December 2011
Germany: 4.6% wage increase in two installments in the paper industry
This year, union and employer negotiators in the paper industry (40,000 employees) started the collective negotiations for the renewal of an agreement expiring on November 30 with very different...
8 December 2011
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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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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