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It’s the first time production relocated abroad is brought back to Italy. On October 10, Natuzzi Spa, world leader in leather furniture, signed a “historical” restructuring agreement with the...

15 October 2013

Atos SE: new agreement on participation of workers in the SE

At the end of 2012, IT services industry company Atos became a European company. At the time, we commented the agreement on employee participation signed within this framework. We are now...

15 October 2013

Romania: ILO urges government to revise last Labor Code reform

Adopted two years ago to make recruitment more flexible, the Romanian Labor Code was severely criticized by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in a study released on October 10 in...

15 October 2013

Safran: EWC agreement reviewed

On April 12, the international high-technology equipment manufacturer signed its first amendment to the EWC agreement of 2008, in order to add the novelties of the recast Directive 2009/38. Here...

15 October 2013

Air France-KLM: EWC and management sign Social Rights and Ethics Charter along with a memorandum for its application

The management of Air France KLM and the EWC signed, on July 10, a new social rights and ethics charter, which it just released and which replaces that of 2008. The new text strengthens...

14 October 2013

Spain: VW Navarra strikes deal securing the site’s future

The management of Volkswagen Navarra, the UGT and CCOO unions and the CGC executives’ federation signed an agreement in principle for the drafting of the 8th collective agreement, which will serve...

14 October 2013

Great Britain: the 5% club wants to make room for young people

Heavyweights in the British economy just created the 5% Club. This corporate group has laid down a challenge: employing 5% of young people within 5 years, in a country where unemployment affects...

14 October 2013

Great Britain: businesses that blacklisted “annoying” workers to set up a fund for the victims

Some of the biggest firms in the construction industry (Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Costain, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, Sir Robert McAlpine, Skanska UK and Vinc) are to compensate workers who were...

11 October 2013

Spain: Bridgestone signs new collective agreement with difficulty

The management signed with the UGT and CCOO unions the 24th company agreement for 2013/15, which provides for a pay freeze and more flexibility. The minority unions (ELA-STV, SITB-USO and BUB)...

11 October 2013

Italy: Bridgestone and unions sign agreement saving Modugno site (Bari)

Retraining instead of closing. The agreement signed on September 30 between Bridgestone Italia Spa, the Femca Cisl, Filctem CGIL, Uiltec Uil and Failc-Confail unions, the unitary trade union...

11 October 2013

Romania: several multinationals show they are doing well by launching major recruitment programs

While restructurings announcements are still shaking western European social news, several multinationals set up in Romania in the auto and ICT industries announced vast recruitment campaigns at...

10 October 2013

Germany: real wages stagnate in the 2nd 2013 quarter after a slight step back in the 1st quarter

On Tuesday, October 8, the Federal Statistics Agency (Destatis) published the figures of the evolutions of actual wages in Germany in the 2nd 2013 quarter. Over the period, nominal wage increased...

10 October 2013

France: unions and employers denounce the legislative imbroglio on work on Sunday but with different ideas of how to get out of it

Employers, unions, politicians, Ministers… everyone agrees that the French rule of Sunday rest with a lot of exceptions is no longer viable. Since two major home improvement stores (Castorama and...

10 October 2013

Germany: Daimler management imposes “social principles” to businesses with a service provision contract

The management of the German carmaker published, on Monday, October 7, the list of social and pay principles businesses willing to sign a service provision contract with the company will have to...

9 October 2013

United States: UAW besieges Nissan in Mississippi

The leaders of the United Auto Workers (UAW) are enhancing their unionization campaign at Nissan’s Canton plant in Mississippi. They are trying to take their campaign to the global level, asking...

9 October 2013

Germany: conflict between Verdi and Amazon goes downhill with the announcement of three sorting centers opening in Poland

Whereas Verdi and the 9,000 German employees of the world leader in e-commerce, Amazon, have been fighting since the beginning of the year over the improvements of pay and adoption of the sector’s...

8 October 2013

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