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United Kingdom: 9% pay rise at Tesco
UK supermarket chain Tesco has significantly increased its hourly pay with effect from 1 April, taking the wage level slightly above the Real Living Wage. The group has also announced an increase...
8 April 2024
Italy: collective agreement in tertiary sector puts emphasis on equality
The agreement signed on 22 March by the employer organisations Confcommercio and Confesercenti and the trade unions Filcams-Cgil, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs provides for a €240 pay rise and...
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5 April 2024
Germany: Deutsche Bahn proposes switch to 35-hour week with an ‘options-based’ model
After two months of failed collective bargaining and "surprise" strikes, the train drivers' union GDL and Deutsche Bahn have reached an innovative agreement on a 35-hour working week with no...
27 March 2024
EU: hospitality sector social partners sign joint declaration on skills shortages
In a joint text published on 19 March, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and HOTREC, the hotel sector employer federation, come together to call on the...
22 March 2024
Safran steps up commitment to the professional integration of young people with renewal of European agreement
Safran and the trade union federation IndustriAll Europe have renewed for the second time the European agreement on the professional integration of young people, which has bound the two parties...
21 March 2024
France: agreement struck in digital, engineering and consultancy sectors to combat sexual harassment
On 15 March, the social partners in France's so-called 'Betic' branch, comprising technical consultancies, engineering consultancies and consultancy firms (1.2 million employees), signed an...
21 March 2024
United Kingdom: government unveils measures to boost apprenticeships
On 18 March, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak unveiled measures designed to boost apprenticeships. To this end, the Conservative government has pledged to cover the full cost of training under-21s at...
19 March 2024
EU: platform workers directive gets green light
The Council of the EU has adopted the directive on platform workers, despite the lack of backing from France and Germany, marking the end of a long legislative soap opera. The text, which is yet...
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12 March 2024
Casino group Cirsa signs global agreement with UNI Global Union and commits to due diligence measures
On 1 March, the Spanish casino group (14,000 employees) signed an agreement on workers' rights and corporate responsibility with the global services trade union federation UNI Global Union, for an...
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5 March 2024
Luxembourg: OGBL union seeks breakthrough at Amazon
The OGBL, the largest trade union in the Grand Duchy (with over 70,000 members), is for the first time presenting a list of candidates at Amazon ahead of the “social” elections on 12...
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4 March 2024
United States: Starbucks pledges to start negotiations with Workers United union
In a press release issued on 27 February, Sara Kelly, vice president and chief human resources officer of Starbucks (240,000 employees in the United States), stated that the coffee chain’s...
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28 February 2024
France: RATP seeks to improve attractiveness with QWL innovations
RATP, the urban transport operator employing 65,000 people, is experimenting with new measures, including the four-day week, new working rhythms and the deployment of exoskeletons in maintenance...
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27 February 2024
EU: still hope for the platform worker directive?
On Monday 26 February, the plenary session of the European Parliament was the occasion for a debate between MEPs and Employment and Social Rights Commissioner Nicolas Schmit on the blocking of the...
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27 February 2024
Laurence Hulin (La Poste): “We have created expert roles to support disabled employees”
France's postal service operator La Poste, which has 238,000 employees, has pursued an active policy that has made it one of the leading employers of disabled employees in the country, starting...
22 February 2024
France: RATP wants to trial four-day week
On 21 February, Paris public transport operator RATP (65,000 employees) and three trade unions representative at the company (FO, CFE-CGC and UNSA) signed a three-year agreement (2024-2026) on...
22 February 2024
United Kingdom: investigation into sexual harassment in the City
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator, has ordered more than 1,000 banks, insurance companies and brokers to detail how many cases of sexual harassment...
20 February 2024
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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: 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
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UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027
The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...
1 October 2026