National industrial relations

On 08 March the TIM telecommunications group together with the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl, Uilcom and UGL Telecomunicazioni unions signed an agreement providing for 1,300 voluntary early retirements by...

16 March 2021

Germany: Verdi and Talanx unveil pioneering agreement on an equity-based company pension model with no return guarantee

On Thursday 11 March, the trade union Verdi and insurance group Talanx presented a collective agreement to set up a company pension model based on social partnership. Three years after a law...

15 March 2021

Italy: Bayer trials flexible arrangements for working time and location

From 1 April until the end of the year, staff at Bayer’s Milan headquarters will experience a “new way of working”, of which the key feature will be the possibility of alternating between working...

15 March 2021

Italy: an agreement paves the way for vaccinations in Lombardy’s industrial workplaces

On 10 March Italy’s Lombardy region together with the regional branch of the Confindustria employers’ organization and the national association of occupational physicians presented a...

12 March 2021

Great Britain: national collective redundancies, even if decided locally, must be subject to European Works Council information and consultation when at least two countries are concerned (CAC)

On 05 March the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) * issued a decision that included conclusions pertaining to European Works Councils (EWCs) and information and consultation requirements. In its...

11 March 2021

Germany: PepsiCo Deutschland signs a ‘Mobile Working’ company agreement

On 04 February 2021, US food giant PepsiCo’s German subsidiary, PepsiCo Deutschland, announced it had signed a teleworking ‘Mobile Working Policy’ agreement with its Works Council. The agreement...

10 March 2021

Germany: metal sector (teleworkers) warning strikes replacing traditional whistles and leaflets with cooking programs and get fit classes

One cup of olive oil, 2 onions, 2 red peppers,… unusually, these ingredients for a vegetarian recipe are to be found on the powerful German IG Metall (Baden-Württemberg)...

9 March 2021

Germany: social partners at Airbus present working time reduction measure in effort to avoid redundancies

On 4 March, the leadership of Airbus Deutschland and the company’s central works council presented a company agreement – negotiated with the support of the union IG Metall – that, according to the...

8 March 2021

United States: first collective bargaining agreement in the world of tech

It is the first collective agreement struck in the United States tech sector, outside of sales and delivery platforms. Just over a year after launching its campaign dubbed CODE (Campaign to...

5 March 2021

France: the role of alternative measures to redundancies in managing the crisis

Faced with the economic impact of the health crisis, many companies that have found themselves compelled to curtail their business operations have begun restructuring. Besides making personnel...

3 March 2021

Italy: social partners in the insurance industry define guidelines for agile work in the future

Since the pandemic, 98% of Italy’s approximately 47,000 insurance sector workers have been working remotely. On 24 February, and in a bid to move beyond the smart working arrangements that emerged...

2 March 2021

United States: President Joe Biden’s pro-union video amid the unionisation campaign at Amazon (Alabama)

Joe Biden is seen to be lending full support to the unionization campaign at Amazon’s Bessemer site in Alabama. In a video published on Twitter on 01 March (here), the Democrat president...

2 March 2021

Germany: metal industry negotiations become increasingly strained

With collective bargaining in Germany’s metal industry at a standstill, the IG Metall union has announced that a spell of warning strikes will run from 2 March 2021 until the end of the...

1 March 2021

ASOS: joint statement signed with IndustriAll Global to support the economic and social recovery of the global garment industry

The garment industry has been hit by an unprecedented crisis, resulting most notably from the cancellation of orders by major brands and retailers. Many workers in supply chains have lost work as...

1 March 2021

UNI Global publishes guide for trade unions to defend the rights of remote workers

International trade unions are addressing the issue of remote work. On Wednesday 23 February, UNI Global Union, the international services sector trade union federation, published a set of...

26 February 2021

Belgium: negotiations over a national inter-professional agreement continue to stall with a second day of trade union action on the cards

Amid difficult negotiations over the 2021-2022 national inter-professional agreement, Belgium’s social partners continue to lock horns over the calculated maximum allowed salary increase ceiling...

23 February 2021

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25 September 2026

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

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

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

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

UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027

The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...

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