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Great Britain: Morrisons launches university training for managers
While logistics are becoming increasingly complicated in retail trade, the Morrisons supermarket chain is offering its sales supervisors a degree in management and logistics. (Ref. 120636)
25 October 2012
Spain: BBVA signs agreement on staffing cuts demanded by Brussels after the banking group took over the Unnim Banc savings banks group
The BBVA bank and the trade unions announced that they signed a draft agreement which should lead to a 40 percent staffing cut at the Unnim Banc savings bank. This is to comply with Brussels'...
24 October 2012
Netherlands: negotiations are stuck in the rubber plastic industry
The plastic and rubber industry, which employs 3,500 people, has not had a collective agreement since July. Negotiations are stuck on the issue of pensions and unions are starting to protest...
23 October 2012
Total: new amendment to the EWC agreement
On October, 8, the oil group signed, with three European trade union organizations (FECCIA, FECER and IndustriAll) and the representative French trade union organizations for the group, a new...
23 October 2012
Transnational bargaining: 1st IndustriALL thematic conference focuses on standardizing procedures for bargaining and implementing international framework agreements
union leaders and experts on IFAs from 30 countries met in Frankfurt, up invitation of IG-Metall for the first thematic conference held by the new international manufacturing federation...
23 October 2012
Netherlands: understanding what is happening to the Dutch Labor Federation, FNV
The FNV, the country's key union federation, has been going through a crisis for a year. Federations rebelling, others leaving, one of the key stakeholders of the polder system is currently...
22 October 2012
Sweden: LO confederation proposes new method for calculating wage increases
LO (landsorganisationen), the Swedish Trade Union Confederation which gathers 14 federations, has presented its claims for the 2013 bargaining session. In order to reconcile competitiveness for...
22 October 2012
Italy: conflict in telecom industry over the renewal of the sector’s national collective agreement
Announcing a turnout "beyond all expectations" for the strike on Friday, October 19, telecom unions warned the Asstel employers' organization that the renewal of the national collective agreement...
22 October 2012
Austria: up to 3.4 percent wage increase in the metal industry
On Friday, October 15, the Pro.GE (manufacturing) and GPA-djp (private sector) unions and the FMMI which, with 1,200 businesses and 120,000 employees, is the largest employers' organization...
22 October 2012
France: employers and unions give birth to Generation Contracts
rtners reached a tentative agreement on Generation Contracts. These contracts aim to encourage the permanent recruitment of young people while maintaining seniors active. Indeed, these two...
21 October 2012
Spain: unions call for a general strike on November 14
The UGT and Workers' Commissions unions called for a general and consumer strike on November 14 to protest against the unprecedented austerity measures applied by the government. This call is in...
21 October 2012
Germany: Daimler management and Sindelfingen works council end conflict of unprecedented intensity
Close-to-perfect agreement. It all started in September with a routine operation: the management was preparing to change the Mercedes S-Class in 2013. Since changes like this usually lead to a...
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19 October 2012
Eurosport: global agreement on fundamental labor rights
On October 12, the management of the special interest channel belonging to TF1 group signed, with UNI Global Union, a global agreement on fundamental labor rights. The union says this agreement is...
19 October 2012
Italy: CGIL organizes national demonstration with employees of ailing businesses
Two years after the big demonstration against the Berlusconi government on November 27, 2010, the CGIL will occupy the Piazza San Giovanni in Rome on October 20 to "bring labor back on top of the...
19 October 2012
Poland: government reveals 2013 social program
eral months, Prime Minister Donald Tusk finally gave his general policy speech in the Diet on October 12. Social measures include bringing maternity leave to one year in mid-2013, developing...
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18 October 2012
Great Britain: low impact of the independence of Scotland on industrial relations and employment law
The Scottish and British governments have agreed the terms of a referendum in 2014 on whether Scotland should become a separate country with its own independent government and state. This raises...
18 October 2012
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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