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Corporate practices: new agreement on “demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures” for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Project mostly initiated by the central WC. It took the social partners at Unilever Deutschland four years to reach an agreement on “Demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable...
13 September 2012
Brazil: Sao Paulo metalworkers on strike for pay
The metalworkers’ federation of the State of Sao Paulo (EMF/CUT-SP), affiliated with the Unified Workers’ Central, has been organizing several strikes and mobilization actions within the framework...
13 September 2012
Portugal: CGTP union mobilizes against austerity
The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP) is calling for a day of struggle and a gathering on September 29 in Lisbon against austerity. Independent, unorganized movements have called...
13 September 2012
Germany: a majority of Länder is about to support a bill introducing universal minimum wage
The issue of the introduction of universal minimum wage was revived after the Land of Thuringia, run by a conservative/social-democratic coalition, presented an initiative for a bill introducing...
12 September 2012
Italy: Monti seeks agreements from the social partners to increase productivity
Bringing back the competitiveness of Italian businesses would be “even more important than the spread” Mario Monti said, hence the need for employers and unions to find an agreement on the...
12 September 2012
Great Britain: unions could mobilize against the government’s austerity policy
The political temperature of the union battle against the government’s austerity programme moved up several notches at the annual gathering of the Trades Union Congress. Prior to it, the general...
11 September 2012
EU: report on the strategies of energy companies and their social and environmental impact
Debt. In the first part, the study talks about the purchases, mergers, and sales of sites and transmission networks done since 2010 and explains the national division of these businesses’...
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11 September 2012
Spain: the civil society mobilized on September 15 against austerity
The second social summit, supervised by the UGT and Workers’ Commissions unions and made up of representatives from over 150 social organizations, presented the program for the march called in...
11 September 2012
Spain: agreement to outsource supplementary pension for Banco Santander staff hired before 1980
The UGT, Comfia-CCOO and FITC unions announced that they signed an agreement with the management of Banco Santander on the conditions to outsource supplementary pensions which will, in the future...
10 September 2012
Italy: with national union division in the background, IndustriAll Europe mobilizes against Fiat Iveco’s restructuring
Explaining that the “different local agreements” signed since the demonstration was called on June 28 “gloss over the main reason which gave rise to the debate within IndustriAll,” the two unions...
10 September 2012
France: Saint-Gobain signs new agreement on diversity
Sensitive urban zones. This first axis developed in the agreement is the “commitment to an active policy supporting the integration, in the Group’s undertakings, and maintaining ailing profiles...
10 September 2012
Great Britain: the pay gap between white workers and ethnic minorities is widening
A gap that has more than doubled. Research by Dr Malcolm Brynin and Dr Ayse Güveli, from the University of Essex published, in the last issue of the British Sociological Association’s journal a...
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6 September 2012
Austria: the Austrian post signs a company agreement on a new working time scheme
Taking actual working hours into account. After 10 months negotiating and 30 meetings, the management of the Austrian post, employee representatives and representatives from the post and telecom...
6 September 2012
Netherlands: FNV union organizes estates general to end its divisions
The Dutch Labor Federation (FNV), the country’s key union, decided to organize a “Parliament” between in 19 affiliates to do a democratic reform and settle internal differences on the pension...
6 September 2012
Italy: tough autumn for the Italian labor market
Metal and steel. From Alcoa to Sardinia, where about 1,000 direct and indirect
workers could lose their job at Fincantieri, which is planning to cut 1,300
jobs out of 9,000 across the country...
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5 September 2012
Great Britain: this summer, cleaning workers scored several points on pay
eaning workers in London over the summer could herald a significant change in the balance of power in the sector. For the last few years, the campaigns of the London Citizens group, made of up of...
3 September 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