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Areva: an agreement on equal opportunities; interview with Bart Samyn
After asking Maureen Kearney, secretary of Areva's European Work's Council (see our story n°061234) to comment on the European agreement on equal opportunities closed out within the Areva group...
14 December 2006
Volkswagen: already 700 voluntary departures at Forest plant in Belgium
Workers of Volkswagen's Forest plant who will agree to leave deliberately will be given a departure bonus of 25 000 to 144 000 euros. An agreement on the matter was concluded on December 8th 2006...
12 December 2006
Strabag SE : difficult beginning for the agreement on workers’ representation in the SE
Registered as a European company, on October 12th, 2004, Strabag, the Austrian and European construction firm, finally concluded an agreement on workers' representation in May 2006. Broadly...
11 December 2006
Belgium: trade unions point out wage gap between men and women
According to a survey based on 20000 workers, the gender gap in terms of salaries is 24 % on a yearly basis and 12 % on an hourly basis. The presence of trade unions in the firm has a tendency to...
7 December 2006
Areva: agreement on equal opportunities, interview of Maureen Kearney
Maureen Kearney, secretary of the European work's council of Areva (CFDT), Irish, analyzes the agreement on equal opportunities signed within the Areva group (see story n° 061207). We also publish...
6 December 2006
Belgium: towards a charter of good behaviour to reduce strikes in Walloon public transport
After consultation of management and trade unions of the public transportation network (TEC), the experts of the Laboratory of studies on new technologies, innovation and change (Lentic) will...
5 December 2006
PSA Peugeot-Citroën : international agreement on social responsibility is ratified
Management of the French automobile constructor PSA has informed that the international framework agreement (IFA) on the group's social responsibility is now ratified. It has entered into force in...
4 December 2006
Germany: employers do not rule out a wage increase in 2007 in the Metal industry
After the latest negotiations in this sector, Gesamtmetall and IG-Metall had agreed on April 22 to a 3% wage increase effective June 1, 2006 (see story n° 06400). This was the first time that the...
4 December 2006
Spain: trade unions want to enrich the collective negotiation for 2007
Before the renegotiation of a framework agreement on collective negotiation (which notably sets the foundations of negotiations for salaries), the majority confederations UGT and CC.OO announced...
4 December 2006
Ireland : the Labour court recommends a minimum wage increase
In the framework of the national pact for growth and employment (Towards 2016), adopted by the government and the social partners on September 5 (see dispatch n°06855), the trade unions...
1 December 2006
MAN Diesel SE: the agreement on workers’ representation in the European company broadly designed on the German co-management model
MAN Diesel, a world leader in diesel engines, chose to maintain the existing dual structure. The firm’s head office remains in Augsburg. The directorate is supervised by a board of directors...
30 November 2006
Capio: first European WC in the health care sector
The Swedish company Capio is the first group of the health sector to have concluded an agreement on the setting up of a European WC, according to the European trade union confederation EPSU. Capio...
29 November 2006
Austria: Confederation of Austrian trade unions introduces the outlines of its reform
After a big opinion poll which attracted only 60000 of the 1.3 million followers of the Confederation of Austrian trade unions (ÖGB), the latter has just introduced the first outlines of its...
29 November 2006
Arcelor-Mittal : EMF asks for a negotiation on social dialogue within the new group
In a letter addressed on November 8th 2006 to Arcelor-Mittal President Lakshmi Mittal, the secretary-general of the EMF Peter Scherrer presented the position of his federation concerning the...
29 November 2006
AMCOR: EWC sets new priorities and wants to become global
At its plenary session of November 21, 2006, in Brussels, the European work's council of the Australian packaging group AMCOR elected its new secretary, the French Patrick Bauret (Filpac-CGT) and...
29 November 2006
Areva: analysis of the European agreement on equal opportunities
Anne Lauvergeon, president of the Areva group's executive board and Bart Samyn, the European metalworkers' Federation's assistant secretary-general, signed on November 16, 2006, a European...
29 November 2006
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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
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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...
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: collective agreement for rubber and plastics sector focuses on new skills
A month ahead of schedule, the Federazione Gomma Plastica employers' organisation and the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec trade unions have renewed the collective agreement for the rubber and...
5 January 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