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Daimler Chrysler reduces the duration of its Board Members’ mandates
“This change only refers to renewal of positions. The maximum duration of the mandate was already limited to three years within the framework of a first appointment to the board” said a spokesman...
28 August 2006
Agfa Gevaert announces 1560 job cuts in Europe
The group installed, in Antwerp, announced a vast restructuring in order to safeguard the company's competitiveness. Belgium is the country the most concerned by this process. (Ref. 06824)
28 August 2006
Germany: Faced with an uncertain return to work, the employees of the Deutsche Bahn AG (railways) and of Volkswagen, clutch at ways to secure their jobs
Deutsche Bahn – What future for the workers following privatisation? – Though clearly better off than their automobile colleagues, the 230,000 ‘rail workers’ are, nevertheless, worried about their...
25 August 2006
Great Britain: The TUC recommends those over 50 stay in work in order to defuse the pension time-bomb
The TUC condemns the fact that more than a million Britons aged between 50 and 65 are out of work against their wishes because employers will not keep them on. The Congress calls for the...
25 August 2006
Germany : the adoption of the minimum wage in the industrial cleaning sector (850.000 employees) reignites the debate over a legal minimum for all employees
Last August 23, the German cabinet decided to extend to the industrial cleaning sector (Entsedegesetz) the law on questions linked to the posted workers within services provision. As is already...
24 August 2006
France: reform of the Department of Employment
New role supporting the implementation of rights at work. From now on the General Management of Work (DGT), which replaced ‘work relationship management’, “prepares, encourages and co-ordinates...
24 August 2006
Lithuania: employees asked to say « no to envelopes»
The Lithuanian institutions of inspection launched several actions in order to fight against the practice of the "envelopes", i.e. dissimulation of part of the wages. The first devices set up at...
23 August 2006
Finland: employers frequently violate basic rights of foreign employees
The Finnish newspaper Heslingin Sanomat gave a balance the investigations carried out by the inspectors in charge of monitoring the working conditions of immigrant workers. The results show a...
22 August 2006
Poland : a draft bill on responsibility for acts against employees’ rights
The Labour Inspectorate in Poland has been alarming for some time now that rights of persons performing economically dependent work are not observed. Despite of existence of penal regulations both...
21 August 2006
Netherlands: the trade unions ask for the end of frozen wages
Considering the growth's prospects, which should amount to 3,25% in 2006 (against 1,5% in 2005 and 0,3% in 2003), the Dutch trade unions asked, on August 11, for the end of the wages stagnation...
18 August 2006
Lithuania: trade unions exhort new government to work on social dialogue
Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation (LPSK), trade union "Solidarity" (LPSS) and Lithuanian Labour federation (LDF)addressed Mr. Gediminas Kirkilas, leader of the newly elected government, a...
18 August 2006
Netherlands: a new trade union for flight attendants
On July 26, the Trade union of Dutch flight attendants (UNC) was born on a joint initiative of three airline companies' employees, Transavia, Martinair and KLM Cityhopper. The UNC is supported by...
18 August 2006
Baltic states: unemployment down and income up, forecasts Hansabank
The leading financial group in the Baltic states Hansabank forecasts a significant decrease of the harmonized unemployment level and a strong growth of real wages in each of the three Baltic...
4 August 2006
Great Britain: report on relations in the workplace
The Department of Trade and Industry published the results of a large study on the working relationships in the company, gathering the surveys conducted in 2004. 3000 executives, 1000 staff...
3 August 2006
Poland: working time regulations may be revised
After a major amendment of the Labour Code in 2004 concerning mainly working time regulations, other changes are being prepared by the Polish Parliament.
31 July 2006
Netherlands: strike at Unilever’s finance department
Thirty employees of Finance Focus, the finance department of the industrial group Unilever, went on strike on July 20, in Vlaardingen. On July 26, they gave a petition to Cees van der Waaij, the...
31 July 2006
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Pascale Rauline (Axa EWC): “European charter formalises ongoing and accelerated social dialogue on AI”
On 27 November, Axa and its European works council (EWC) signed a charter setting out principles governing the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and guaranteeing social dialogue on the...
3 December 2025
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Germany: crisis-hit industries cast shadow over 2026 bargaining cycle
In 2026, collective wage agreements for nearly 10 million employees in Germany are set to expire. With upcoming negotiations in crisis-hit 'pilot' sectors such as chemicals and metalworking, the...
2 December 2025
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Bulgaria: government approves bill to encourage sector-level collective bargaining
On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...
2 December 2025
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EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI
On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...
18 December 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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Inditex European works council mobilises on value sharing
In a joint statement, 10 trade unions comprising the European works council of the Inditex clothing group are calling for rallies in Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany...
24 November 2025