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Latvia: government decides to maintain employer contribution that finance wage guarantee institution
Latvian government has decided to maintain the amount currently paid by the employers to the wage guarantee institution which protects employees against their company insolvency. (Réf. 06836)
31 August 2006
Lithuania : the most popular ways to motivate employees
The most common means for motivating employees are free courses, training and paying the phone bills, but those are only effective when employees receive a substantial salary. (Ref. 06832)
30 August 2006
Spain : the CCOO battle on the issue of risks prevention at work
The main Spanish trade union Confederation launched a public awareness campaign inviting workers to seriously consider the psychosocial risks threatening them. With this campaign, the trade...
30 August 2006
Slovakia : unions ask government to amend labour law
Answering to the social priorities setted by the new government (see our article n°06811), the Slovak Confederation of Trade Unions demands maximum working hours for employees and limitation of...
30 August 2006
Greece: the government wishes to be more involved in the social dialogue
The Greek government started a series of meetings with trade unions and employers. It expressed its wish to pay more attention to social partners and to foster social dialogue. (Ref. 06827)
29 August 2006
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
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29 January 2026
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France: CDC Habitat defines a framework and means for social dialogue on AI
In an agreement signed on 23 February with trade unions, the subsidiary of CDC (Caisse des dépôts et consignations) Habitat (10,800 employees) guarantees that AI solutions will only...
23 February 2026
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
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Catherine Chavanier (CDC Habitat): “Social dialogue on AI facilitates its deployment”
In February, CDC Habitat (10,500 employees) signed a two-year framework agreement governing social dialogue on AI. Catherine Chavanier, HR Director of the subsidiary of CDC (Caisse des dépôts et...
20 March 2026
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France: bioMérieux’s new disability agreement pivots towards mental health
The news. On 6 January 2026, bioMérieux—an in vitro diagnostics specialist employing 4,400 people in France—signed a new four-year agreement “relating to the employment...
4 March 2026
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Germany: controversial collective bargaining compliance act adopted
On 26 February, the Bundestag approved the Tariftreuegesetz (collective bargaining compliance act), aimed at strengthening collective agreements and tackling social dumping by tying certain public...
26 February 2026
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United Kingdom: launch of consultation on protection against detriment for industrial action
The British government launched a public consultation on 26 February regarding new protections for workers against "detriment" related to industrial action, scheduled to take effect in October...
12 March 2026