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Greece: unhoped for agreement on a new national agreement for three years
Content of the agreement. This agreement, retroactive on January 1, 2010, provides for a wage freeze in 2010, a minimum 1.5% wage increase in 2011 and 1.7% in 2012, based on the percentage of...
20 July 2010
Austria: government to introduce controls and fines to fight wage dumping
€240 million shortfall. As in Germany, where the idea of minimum wage to limit cheap competition from workers from the new Member States is spreading, Austria is trying to protect itself from the...
19 July 2010
France: interview of Marcel Grignard, CFDT deputy national secretary
the pension reform, which is getting all the attention from the press and politicians in France because of the country’s news, the CFDT’s congress (in Tours from June 7th to June 11th...
16 July 2010
Greece: the drop in tourism worsens the economic situation and will also have an impact on the social situation in the fall
Cancellation wave. A government spokesman explained that, in May, “there were thousands of cancellations, with tens of thousands of euros lost each eek. Images of broken shop windows, or of...
16 July 2010
Italy: tourism social partners sign a unitary agreement for the renewal of the sectoral collective agreement
Tourism social partners – Filcams CGIL, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs-Uil for unions, AICA and Federturismo (affiliated with Confindustria) for employers – signed, on July 9th, a unitary agreement for...
15 July 2010
Germany: collective negotiations started in the rail sector and promise to be complicated, and risky for users
The issue of containing “social and wage dumping” caused by the arrival of private rail operators in Germany is going to prevail during the collective negotiations which started on Monday, July...
13 July 2010
Italy: Fiat launches the industrial program for its Pomigliano d’Arco site
After two weeks of “suspense,” on Friday, July 9th, Fiat officially launched its restructuring program, “Fabbrica Italia.” During a meeting with the leaders of the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil, Fismic and...
13 July 2010
Great Britain: BT avoids a strike by granting an annual 3% wage increase
Successful negotiations. BT initially offered to increase wages by 2% this year and 3% net year (see our dispatch No. 100422). However, the CWU threatened with a historical strike and got a better...
13 July 2010
Italy: Labor Minister publishes employee “participation code”
On Wednesday, July 7th, Minister for Labor Maurizio Sacconi sent the social partners the first draft of the “profit-sharing code,” an “open” document which will be improved and updated via their...
12 July 2010
Dekra: the German certification company becomes a European company
Involvement with the supervisory board. Within the framework of the transformation into a SE, the company maintains its dual structure as well as an equal supervisory board. For the first term...
9 July 2010
Greece: adoption of the pension act and general strike
Big mobilization. This 24-hour strike paralyzed maritime, rail and air transport throughout the country. Over 80 domestic and international flights were cancelled and 110 were delayed because air...
9 July 2010
Italy: formal internal opposition building up within the CGIL
Analysis. For the founders, the Fiom’s “clear” position on the restructuring of Fiat’s Pomigliano site (see our dispatch No. 100480 on the opposition of the plan providing a drawback on social...
8 July 2010
Portugal: CGTP calls for national day of protest
Day of struggle. The CGTP ruled out full paralysis of the country but wants to “issue a warning against attempts to reform the Labor Code and the possibility of wage cuts,” declared Carvhalo da...
8 July 2010
Germany: social partners agree on a 22-month wage freeze for 50,000 Lufthansa employees
In March, Lufthansa’s key objective was to cut by 10% the unitary costs of wages paid to ground personnel, while Ver.di was mostly banking on guarantees for job security. In the end, on Tuesday...
8 July 2010
Italy: the “Pomigliano effect” against the “Pomigliano model”
“The outcome of the referendum sounded the alarm.” Susanna Camusso, CGIL deputy general secretary, who should replace current general secretary Gugliemo Epifani at the end of his term in...
7 July 2010
Great Britain: government no longer excludes hardening the right to strike
Introducing a participation rate. Considered as one of the strictest in Europe, the right to strike could become even stricter. On June 21st, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) threw a...
7 July 2010
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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
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...
20 October 2025
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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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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
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026