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Germany: a dual baccalaureat to rescue the apprenticeship system
In a bid to tackle some ingrained trends that continue to direct young Germany school leavers towards third level education and keep them away from the world of work for even longer, several...
26 July 2018
EU: evaluation study on the implementation of Directive 2009/38/EC on the establishment of a European Works Council is now available online
The European Commission has finally made its evaluation study on the implementation of recast Directive 2009/38/EC on the establishment of a European Works Council available online. The report had...
26 July 2018
Belgium: a new ‘jobs deal’ including a controversial faster degression rate for unemployment compensation
In the night hours between July 23 and 24 Belgium’s select ministerial committee secured agreement on the 2019 budget, which in particular includes a ‘jobs deal’, which seeks to remedy certain...
25 July 2018
Mango: the CCOO union announces the signing of an agreement with global scope that guarantees protection for employees’ fundamental rights along the supply chain via local union action
On 23 July an agreement was signed between the Spanish CCOO union and textile giant Mango that aims to promote joint local trade union and CCOO action as well as monitoring visits to workplaces in...
25 July 2018
Argentina: record fine imposed on a trade union with conflict and tensions at their highs
Argentina’s Labor Minister has levied a record fine of ARS 180 million (€25 million) on the powerful Camioneros transport union headed by Hugo Moyano. The reason for the fine lies in the union’s...
25 July 2018
Spain: government looking to create a register of independent workers who are ‘economically dependent’
The Labour Minister intends to require companies to keep registers of independent workers (’autonomos’) who are working for them on a quasi-exclusive basis. The new rule will affect those who find...
25 July 2018
Brazil: banking sector collective agreement negotiations stuck on labor reform issues
Campaign 2018, Brazil’s banking sector’s national employee agreement renegotiations that commenced several weeks ago is facing a growing number of difficulties. This highly unionized sector is one...
24 July 2018
Italy: national collective agreement for chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector renewed six months in advance
Following some quick-fire negotiations, Italian employer organisations Federchimica and Farmindustria reached an agreement with trade unions Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uiltec, Ugl Chimici...
23 July 2018
Italy: social partners in logistics sector define a professional profile for delivery riders
With Luigi Di Maio, Italy’s Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies, having forced meal delivery giants to sit around the negotiating table with trade unions, to agree on a...
23 July 2018
Poland: reform of tripartite social dialogue passed (in brief)
On 19 July 2018, Polish president Andrzej Duda formally passed the new law on the council for national social dialogue, a tripartite dialogue body (see article n°10553 on the bill). As a result of...
23 July 2018
Spain: union discord surrounds the textile industry’s collective agreement renewal
Pre-agreement for some, strike action for others. At the very time when the UGT was announcing it had concluded a pre-agreement with the employers’ bodies over the textile sector’s collective...
19 July 2018
Spain: government prepares its social agenda and will revisit 2012 legislation on collective bargaining
Six weeks after coming to power, Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez’s team is looking to stamp its mark on its social agenda by way of defining a roadmap for work related regulation. The minority...
19 July 2018
Italy: healthy momentum underpinning company-level negotiations
On 17 July, the central union Cisl presented its annual Ocsel report that analyses over 2,000 company agreements negotiated in the period between 2016 and 2017. The report shows that decentralized...
18 July 2018
Spain: unions and employers finalize Catalonia’s Cross-Industry Pre-Agreement that sets the major guidelines for collective negotiations over the 2018-2020 period
Representatives from both the employers and employees bodies worked well into ‘extra-time’ before eventually securing a ‘pre-agreement’, which, after ratification by the different trade unions’...
11 July 2018
EWC : German court recognises a non-European company’s right to choose which country of operation represents it in Europe in order to negotiate a new EWC agreement
According to German legal sources, the Labour Court of Wiesbaden in Germany has upheld the right for corporate groups headquartered outside of the EU and/or the EEA to relocate its leadership in...
6 July 2018
Ryanair: social unrest forecast for the summer
Leading low-cost airline Ryanair is facing a torrid summer of social unrest. On 05 July trade unions from Belgium, Italy, and Portugal representing Ryanair cabin crew staff announced strike action...
5 July 2018
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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