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Italy: ENEL signs new industrial relations protocol
Goals and confrontation levels. To face the market crisis and tighter competitiveness, the protocol is banking on strengthening a “constructive atmosphere” based on dialogue and mutual trust, in...
29 August 2012
Germany: Ufo flight attendants union launches strike at Lufthansa
Coming back from a vacation might be tricky in Germany. On Tuesday, August 26, the small flying personnel union, Ufo, called on Lufthansa's 19,000 flight attendants to take part in strike action...
28 August 2012
Great Britain: small unions are having a hard time influencing negotiations on public sector pensions
Unison members in England and Wales have voted 90.2% in favour of accepting the now revised changes to the LGPS following a ‘yes’ vote recommendation by their union leadership. The revised...
28 August 2012
Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn’t an all-female issue anymore
Somewhere between a changing table and the production hall. The biggest heavyweight assembly plant in the world, Mercedes-Benz’s site in Wörth, North Rhine-Westphalia, spreads over 2.4000.000...
27 August 2012
Italy: operations at Ilva Tarente will resume if it gets up to date
The two ordinances, signed on July 26 by the judge for preliminary investigations of the Tarente Court, Patrizia Todisco, within the framework of the investigation on the “environmental disaster...
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27 August 2012
Portugal: labor cost 10 percent higher than the average in the Euro zone
Portuguese competitiveness is slowly going up, the Central Bank of Portugal having published slightly decreasing unitary labor costs. However, it is still higher than the average in the rest of...
27 August 2012
France: PSA Sevelnord agreement revives debate on competitiveness agreements
On July 12, PSA Peugeot Citroën announced 8,000 job cuts across the country and the closing of the Aulnay site (Seine-Saint-Denis), which employs 3,000 people. For the Sevelnord plant in Hordain...
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24 August 2012
Germany: 9,300 Opel staff on short-time working
6 percent net loss of income. What a sad birthday! On the brand’s 150th birthday – Opel was created on August 23, 1862 –, the company’s management announced, with unions’ consent, that it was...
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24 August 2012
Great Britain: 2011 strike statistics released
The government has published its annual statistical analysis of strike activity for 2011, showing that nearly 1.4 million days were not worked as a result of 149 strikes involving 1.53m workers...
23 August 2012
Italy: Manpower’s new group agreement improves work-life balance
Saying that unions had shown “true realism and responsibility” in the context of “deep” crisis in the sector – which has also affected American temporary work giants –, Cristian Sesena, Filcams...
23 August 2012
Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices
Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...
23 August 2012
Germany: German-style apprenticeship set out to conquer the world
The ‘dual system’ on the fringe of the Atlantic Ocean. In a workshop located one floor above the assembly hall of the American headquarters of the German chainsaw maker, Stihl, in Virginia Beach...
23 August 2012
United States: bitter conflict end for Caterpillar
Caterpillar, the American giant, and the leaders of the IAM union have just signed a 6-year pay deal which is going to leave the union a bitter aftertaste. This agreement covers 780 workers at...
21 August 2012
Portugal: crisis brings working time up to 41 hours a week
In Portugal, the number of people working in average 41 hours a week has increased since the end of 2011. According to an employment survey carried out by the National Statistics Institute (INE)...
20 August 2012
Great Britain: latest union membership figures released
In 2011, there were 172 unions with 7.26m members, of which fourteen unions with more than 100,000 members accounted for 86% of all membership. This represented a decline from 7.32m the previous...
20 August 2012
Hewlett Packard: employee representatives vote the termination of the anticipation agreement establishing the EWC
CFE-CGC, the French union organization, announced in a press release published on July 26 that 95 percent of the EWC members of the computing group had decided to terminate the agreement...
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20 August 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