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United States: Trump looking to boost apprenticeships
US Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta used ‘Workforce Development Week’ to announce President Trump’s administration’s intentions for developing apprenticeships.
15 June 2017
Sweden: a new collective agreement and a new type of temporary employment contract for the retail sector
On 08 June, after challenging negotiations, an agreement on services, organization and retail business, affecting 80,000 employees, was struck between the trade unions Akademiker (third level...
14 June 2017
Germany: IG Metall reports on its research into ‘crowdworking’
On 09 June, IG Metall vice-president, Christiane Benner presented a summary of its organization’s ‘exploratory work’ into the area of ‘crowdworking’, where workers are paid per job via...
14 June 2017
Brazil: child labor rising among children aged between 5 and 9
Since 2013 Brazil has witnessed a rising number of child labor occurrences among children aged under ten. According to the latest study by the IBGE, Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics...
14 June 2017
Solvay formalises its Global Forum, establishing it as a permanent body
On 7 June, Solvay group chief executive officer Jean-Pierre Clamadieu and Global Forum coordinator Albert Kruft signed a four-year agreement which formalises this body, which had been introduced...
8 June 2017
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo launches ‘mixed’ employment contract, allowing workers to be half freelance and half employed
In an announcement recently published on LinkedIn and on its website, Intesa Sanpaolo wrote: “Are you interested in an employment opportunity that combines entrepreneurship and stability? If...
8 June 2017
Norway: unionization on the wane, fewer than one in two workers was a union member in 2016
Is this the end of a myth? Research foundation Fafo has just published 2016 statistics showing that only 49% of Norway’s employees are members of a trade union. Flirting with the 50% threshold for...
8 June 2017
Briefly, India’s IT trade unions try to play a role against a backdrop of redundancies hitting the sector
The bodies that aim to organize India’s engineers are looking to succeed at a time when a significant wave of redundancies is hitting the country’s IT sector (for more on the...
6 June 2017
Sweden: agreements reached across telecommunications sector
An agreement was reached on 17 May between the SEKO union (for service and communications employees) and the employer organisation IT&Telekomföretagen (for the telecoms and IT sectors, a...
2 June 2017
Spain: a new collective agreement for call centers
The CCOO and UGT unions together with employers’ body, the ACE, have signed a new collective agreement for the call center sector, which guarantees the maintenance of purchasing power and...
31 May 2017
Germany: launch of a ‘national dialogue’ on workplace stress
Germany’s authorities and social partners continue to focus on the direct and indirect effects of workplace stress. In spite of the many nationwide plans and laws on the issue and against a...
30 May 2017
Great Britain: almost 500 companies are now committed to combatting mental health in the workplace
Ranging from airplane engine maker Rolls-Royce to the restaurant chain Pizza Hut, supermarket chains Tesco and Marks & Spencer, not forgetting the Virgin Money bank plus gas giant British Gas...
30 May 2017
Germany: new initiative looks to encourage company agreements on digitalisation
An initiative launched in Germany, named ‘Arbeit 2020 in NRW’, has been looking at, among other things, how companies can adjust to the trend of digitalisation while avoiding a negative impact on...
29 May 2017
In addition to our article on the ‘Arbeit 2020 in NRW’ initiative, you can read or re-read last week’s piece on the German economy “adapting its professions to meet the digital age”
For the bigger picture on the approach to digital transformation in Germany.
29 May 2017
Italy: new study on labour transformation in the financial sector
A new study led by the Fisac-Ggil union in Milan, in partnership with the consortium Aaster, has surveyed the opinions of 1,000 employees from banking and insurance companies on the impact of...
29 May 2017
Germany: the German economy is adapting its professions to meet the digital age
In Germany, the digitalization of the economy has become a nationwide issue and is now sitting high up on the agendas of the social partners, the political parties and businesses alike. Following...
25 May 2017
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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
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
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
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026