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Italy: Electrolux and unions sign agreement on strategy out of the crisis
On March 9, the social partners at Electrolux signed a unitary agreement suspending the staff cutting program the group had announced for 2013-2015 via solidarity contracts (working time cuts) and...
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18 March 2013
Germany: businesses reduce apprenticeship places in spite of the growing shortage in skilled workers
According to the first draft of the "2013 Apprenticeship Report," in 2012, German businesses cut the number of apprenticeship places they offered. Indeed, last year, only 21.7% of companies...
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18 March 2013
Mattel: China Labor Watch claims employees’ working conditions are getting worse at the toy manufacturer
“Investigators, who entered the factories as production workers or carried out interviews, revealed a long list of illegal and unfair labor treatment at (…)one directly-owned Mattel factory and...
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5 December 2012
Indesit: EWC becomes global works council
Composition. This new international social dialogue structure will be made up of 21 employee representatives – 8 from Italy, 4 from the UK, 4 from Poland, 3 from
Russia, 1 from Turkey and 1 from...
4 December 2012
Volkswagen: new “Temporary work Charter” will apply to all agency workers across the globe
which the IG-Metall said it was a milestone, Volkswagen, the German carmaker, is committing to reducing the level of temporary employment in the group and to gradually introducing equal pay...
4 December 2012
Italy: Ilva or the problems that can arise between environmental and employment requirements
After the memorandum of understanding signed in July (see our dispatch No. 120491) and the adoption of a €336-million budget to clean up the site, the Ministry of the
Environment created, on...
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4 December 2012
Spain: Iberia unions call for 6-day strike against social plan providing for 4,500 job cuts
Unions are joining forces for the strike. All unions representing workers in the company (UGT, CCOO, USO, Asetma, Sitcpla and CTA-vuelo – which represents
ground staff and flight attendants)...
3 December 2012
Great Britain: three-year pay deal in the engineering construction industry
Members of the Unite and GMB unions in the engineering construction industry have agreed to a 7.7% pay deal for three years, running from 2013 to 2015. The agreement covers between 50,000 and...
3 December 2012
Austria: 3.4 percent increase for agency workers
On Tuesday, November 27, the social partners in the temporary work industry – the PRO-GE union and the representatives of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) agreed on a new collective...
30 November 2012
Great Britain: unions are stepping up their campaigns to improve the wages and conditions of their members in contract cleaning by taking industrial action
Each dispute has been long running and marks a stepping up of the ante by the union. The strikes will be preceded by a national rally in London and followed by a mass lobby of Parliament and...
29 November 2012
Corporate practices: staff wellbeing at the center of the economic strategy implemented by Lån & Spar Bank A/S bank
“Actions on health and the working environment were initiated as a key element in our new strategy to improve basic profits as well as client and employee satisfaction” Keld Thornæs, associate...
29 November 2012
Germany: in 2011, for the 1st time in a decade, labor cost was higher than the increases observed in the eurozone
“The numbers show what several parameters already pointed out: Germany has first-rate international competitiveness. But there’s a downside: low wage growth and domestic demand for years. German...
28 November 2012
Belgium: overview of the failed negotiations for the restructurings of ArcelorMittal Liege
The survival of the steel industry in Liege at stake. On November 19, almost all the workers at ArcelorMittal Liege rejected the proposals that arose with social dialogue. For its part, the ...
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28 November 2012
Rheinmetall: new European framework agreement on health management
Negotiations supervised by IndustriAll. Rheinmetall AG set up its European Works Council (EWC) in 2000. Before the summer, it signed a “European Framework Agreement on Health Management,” its...
27 November 2012
Spain: how Microsoft Spain and Wolters Kluwer Spain are implementing telework models
e latest labor reform (Decree Law 3/2012) constitutes a legal milestone of Spanish law as telework is regulated within a legislative framework for the first time, by modifying article 13 of the...
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27 November 2012
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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
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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Pascale Rauline (Axa EWC): “European charter formalises ongoing and accelerated social dialogue on AI”
On 27 November, Axa and its European works council (EWC) signed a charter setting out principles governing the deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) and guaranteeing social dialogue on the...
3 December 2025
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Germany: crisis-hit industries cast shadow over 2026 bargaining cycle
In 2026, collective wage agreements for nearly 10 million employees in Germany are set to expire. With upcoming negotiations in crisis-hit 'pilot' sectors such as chemicals and metalworking, the...
2 December 2025
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Bulgaria: government approves bill to encourage sector-level collective bargaining
On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...
2 December 2025
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EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI
On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...
18 December 2025
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Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement
Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching...
12 December 2025
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France: Orange submits gender equality agreement – including AI provisions – for union approval
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