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Germany: Opel GmbH to pay retrospectively for extra company pension to 20.000 pensioners
After two rulings at the federal Labour Court rendered in 1993 and 2002 by virtue of the principle of equal treatment among workers, Opel negotiated with its EWC a retroactive payment of an...
2 January 2008
Italy: social partners from the electric sector renew their collective agreement’s economic part
The agreement to renew the national collective agreement was signed on December 18, 2007. Unions are satisfied with this text which grants an average 116 euros increase for the 2008-2009 period...
2 January 2008
Sweden: reactions to the Court of Justice’s decision in the Laval Partners case
The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities concerning the case P Baltic Bygg and its parent company, the Latvian group Laval Partneri (see our article No. 071034), whose...
21 December 2007
Spain : the agreement which will supervise sectorial company negotiations in 2008 was signed
Social partners decided, for 2008, to renew the interprofessional agreement on collective negotiation signed in 2007, with a few novelties in terms of work-life balance, and harassment as part of...
20 December 2007
Germany: GDL breaks negotiations with the Deutsche Bahn and starts a new strike
The train drivers' union GDL unexpectedly broke the negotiations started on December 4 with the DB, which had enabled to stop strike movements in Germany. The union announced that train drivers...
20 December 2007
Sanofi-Aventis : final stretch to the creation of a European negotiation body
The European Mine, Chemistry and Energy Federation (EMCEF) is consulting its members about the draft agreement creating a European dialogue body within the pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis...
19 December 2007
Italy : renewal of the economic part of the collective agreement in the energy and oil sector
The unions greeted the conclusion of this agreement which occurs in a context of tense relations between the employers’ union Confindustria and other employers’ unions, and amid renegotiation of...
19 December 2007
Germany: controversy on the introduction of minimum wage for temporary work
A few days after the Bundestag adopted, on December 14, 2007, a particularly disputed minimum wage in the postal sector (see our articles No. 071031 and 071004), a new conflict burst out among the...
19 December 2007
CPI: agreement on the creation of a EWC
The French printing group CPI (4.000 employees) signed an agreement establishing a European Works' Council, on December 13, 2007, followed by the council's first meeting. The goal is to introduce...
19 December 2007
Italy: report on the evolution of industrial relations in 2007
According to the last report from the research institute Censis on the country's social situation, industrial relations in 2006 were marked by a considerable decrease in the number of collective...
17 December 2007
Denmark: DSB signed an agreement to compensate asbestos victims
Employees from the DSB, the Danish national railroad company, who have developed or will develop a pathology after being exposed to asbestos for work, will get from their employer one and a half...
17 December 2007
Hungary: 2008 tripartite wage negotiations blocked
During the last tripartite negotiations (employers,unions,government), social partners could not reach an agreement concerning wage increases for 2008. Unions stand their ground, refusing to go...
17 December 2007
Italy: partial but not definite agreement to renew metalworkers’ national collective agreement
Whereas strikes keep going throughout Italy, to support negotiations on the renewal of metalworkers' national collective agreement (see our articles No. 070946, 070906 and 070820), which expired...
17 December 2007
Germany: the jobs of Pin Group’s 9.000 employees threatened
A few days after the Bundestag gave the green lights, on December 14, 2007, to the introduction, on January 1, 2008 of a minimum wage in the postal service, negotiated by the Verdi union and an...
14 December 2007
Germany: IBM introduces a new “global” pay system in exchange for a disputed wage agreement
At the end of September 2007, the Verdi union got a 4% wage increase for IBM Germany's employees. In exchange, the services sector union stopped opposing the introduction of a new pay system based...
14 December 2007
Italy: social partners from banking sector renewed their collective agreement for three years
Social partners from the banking sector (Associazione Bancaria Italiana – ABI for employers and the Dircredito, Fabi, Falcri, Fiba, Fisac, Silcea, Sinfub, Ugl, Uilca unions) signed, on December 8...
13 December 2007
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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