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Belgium: unions are looking for candidates for the 2012 employee representation bodies’ election
s of Works Councils (WCs) and Committees for prevention and protection at the workplace (Comités pour la prévention et la protection au travail, CPPT) will take place in May 2012 in...
6 October 2011
EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks “EWCs should be a platform for unions’ work”
lanet Labor during the Congress of the European services’ union, Uni Europa, which took place in Toulouse, France, on October 4-5, Oliver Roethig, the federation’s new regional...
6 October 2011
Germany: Daimler staff get job security until 2016
000 German employees: they are safe from layoffs until December 31, 2016. After relatively quick negotiations, the carmaker’s management and central WC agreed, on October 5th, on the renewal...
5 October 2011
Luxembourg: social partners are back at the bargaining table
ad been on hold for a year and a half. The government, employers’ representatives and unions finally met on September 29th. While the very existence of automatic indexing is no longer in...
5 October 2011
United States: employment is still the key priority in the auto industry with the agreement signed with Ford
three weeks ago, Ford is the second American carmaker to reach an understanding with United Auto Workers (UAW). The tentative agreement, even if it doesn’t provide for a general wage...
5 October 2011
Denmark: “cooperation” and “renewal” on the menu of the new government’s program
iations, the leader of the coalition that won the legislative election of September 15th, Helle Thorning-Schmidt (social-democratic party) introduced, on Monday, October 3rd, her government and...
4 October 2011
Morocco: child labor at stake again
A problem hard to measure. In 2006, Human Rights Watch published the results of a survey which showed that approximately 600,000 children were working and that there were 66,000 ‘little maids.’ ...
3 October 2011
Danone: global agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress
gned its ninth global agreement with the International Union of Food Workers (IUF). After social dialogue, diversity or even the steps to take in the event of a change in operations affecting...
3 October 2011
Italy: Fiat to leave Confindustria on January 1, 2012
, announced today October 3rd that it was leaving the Confindustria employers’ organization on January 1, 2012, which means that it will no longer be subject to the national metal collective...
3 October 2011
Spain: draft agreement on the 16th collective agreement in the chemical industry signed in spite of union division
luded, on September 29th, between Feique, the chemical employers’ organization, and Fiteqa-CCOO, the chemistry federation of Workers’ Commissions – the sector’s key union...
3 October 2011
Axa: the French insurance group is the first in the industry to sign a European agreement on the anticipation of changes
insurance group, Axa, signed with Uni Europa and the four trade unions represented within the group, a protocol on the anticipation of changes. The latter places the European Works’ Council...
3 October 2011
Germany: GDL union says many train drivers are leaving businesses that refuse to sign the interconfederal agreement
L train drivers’ union and private rail companies since… the summer 2010 is starting to leave its mark. The GDL claims that more and more train drivers, infuriated by the...
30 September 2011
ArcelorMittal: European agreement on the anticipation of change and social dialogue put to the test
While the management of the steel group recently announced the temporary closure of some sites, the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the EWC want to improve social dialogue on this...
29 September 2011
Romania: new employers’ representation structure
Four Romanian employers' organizations - Conpirom, Romanian Employers, the National Union of Romanian Employers and UGIR-1903 - created, earlier this week, a new merged structure. Christened...
29 September 2011
Italy: union break at the Italian post
on break is the reverse of what is happening elsewhere. The CGIL signed an agreement with the group’s management on awarding the 2011 result bonus (PDR) early, while the SLP-Cisl...
29 September 2011
Germany: after negotiations failed, IG-Metall union calls Airbus’ 16,000 employees for strike action
union, which has been bargaining for over a year for the renewal of an agreement on the continuation of employment for the 16,000 employees of Airbus’ German subsidiary, announced, on...
29 September 2011
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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...
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31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
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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