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Great Britain: the annual report of the ACAS conciliation and mediation service shows an increase in cases of pre-employment tribunal claims
The pre-Employment Tribunal claims are open to both employers and employees to use to avoid lengthy and costly employment tribunals which have dramatically increased over the last ten years and...
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20 August 2012
Siemens: new international framework agreement
In that agreement Siemens commits itself to fundamental workers’ rights such as equal opportunity and freedom of association and collective bargaining. The Agreement refers to the fundamental...
19 August 2012
BNP Paribas: interview of Didier Legrand, head of Social Affairs within BNP Paribas Human Resources, about the European agreement on employment management
p signed an agreement on employment management in Europe. Didier Legrand, head of Social Affairs within BNP Paribas Human Resources, is telling Planet Labor about this initiative. (Ref. 120477)...
19 August 2012
Valeo: new European agreement on CSR
On July 10, Valeo, the car part manufacturer, and its European Works Council signed a European agreement on corporate social responsibility. This agreement covers a wide range of subjects, such as...
19 August 2012
Spain: massive turnout for the civil servants’ protest against austerity
United unions. Turnout for the demonstrations called by the trade unions was massive across the country’s cities. Six unions who’d never marched side to side before (UGT, Workers’ Commissions...
20 July 2012
Italy: Automobili Lamborghini SpA and Fiom-CGIL sign company agreement improving employee participation
“We’re increasingly projecting towards our strategic goal: being the most appealing employer in the industry.” This is how Umberto Tossi, HR manager of Automobili Lamborghini SpA, presented the...
20 July 2012
Italy: Alenia Aermacchi (Finmeccanica) and unions sign agreement increase flexibility and result bonus
Result bonus. Massimo Masat, Fiom national coordinator for Alenia Aermacchi, pointed out that the parameters “were changed to become truly available.” Giovani Contento, Uilm national secretary...
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18 July 2012
Lithuania: new Lithuanian Federation of Manufacturing Unions
Long negotiations for this merger. During the negotiations before the official decision, the leaders of the Lithuanian Chemical Industrial Workers Trade Union Federation (Lietuvos chemijos...
18 July 2012
G4S : EWC agreement revised
Transnationality. The revised Agreement contains new definitions of information/consultation which reflect some of the recent changes in the European legislation and confirms the nature of the...
17 July 2012
Spain: public employees down in the street against new austerity measures
Spontaneous gatherings. These spontaneous gatherings, rather unusual in Spain, started on Friday, July 13, as soon as the reform passed. At the same time, a group of employees working at Moncloa...
17 July 2012
Estonia: collective agreements have a hard time proving they are efficient
After two studies written in 2010 and X-raying the country's social relations, the Estonian Minister of Social Affairs presented, on June 11, 2012, a new, shorter study entitled "The Role of...
16 July 2012
Italy: Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and rail CCN renewed
The final signature should be by July 20 in order to get a following from the association of rail subcontractors, Fise-Uniferr, from Legacoop-Servizi and from Confcooperative-Federlavoro. Unions...
13 July 2012
Germany: Deutsche Bahn and Federal Employment Agency sign national recruitment agreement
The DB’s personnel management is currently facing two challenges: demographic ageing (many people retiring) and the company’s international growth. At the end of 2011, DB CEO Rüdiger Grube...
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13 July 2012
Spain: unions call for demonstration against new austerity package
New austerity package. The managing committees of the two union federations met on the 11th to analyze the new adaptation program the government presented in Parliament that same morning. The...
12 July 2012
Great Britain: Frances O’Grady, expert in union campaigning, will become the new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress in January 2013
Before joining the TUC in 1994, O’Grady worked for the TGWU union (now part of Unite) from 1989 where she worked on successful campaigns to stop the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and...
11 July 2012
Austria: 3.45 percent average wage increase in tourism and the hotel business
3.45 percent average increase. It took the social partners in the Austrian tourism industry, which employs 200,000 people, five meetings before they could agree on a pay agreement on Tuesday...
11 July 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
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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