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Germany: demographic ageing at the heart of the coming collective negotiations in the chemical industry
6 percent wage increase. IG BCE leader Michael Vassiliadis says that the high wage increase called for by his union is completely justified because of the flourishing economic situation in the...
14 February 2012
Austria: energy sector avoids a strike and negotiates an increase up to 4.2 percent
The 21,000 employees in the energy sector won’t have to take their banners out to defned their wage increase. While, on Monday, February 13, the preparations for two days of protest were in full...
14 February 2012
Spain: new savings bank collective agreement sets framework for the expected restructurings in the sector
ACARL, the employers’ association of savings banks, and the sector’s majority unions (Comfia-CCOO, FeS-UGT, the Confederation of Independent Savings Bank Unions – CSICA, the Confederation of...
14 February 2012
Greece: pay-related measures of the new austerity program
First, special measures on the definition of wages will prompt the payment of financial aid.
13 February 2012
Austria: call for strike after energy negotiations failed
Two days of protest. Temperatures are going up and therefore risks of blackouts are decreasing just in time as the Pro-GE and GPA-dip unions, in charge of collective bargaining in the energy...
13 February 2012
Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign agreement renewing the collective agreement
“With this agreement, production stays in Denmark (…). We would have liked more but the key for us and our members is that manufacturing jobs in the Danish industry have a future” declared Dansk...
13 February 2012
Great Britain: Apprenticeship Week confirms the government’s strategy
Government commitment. The Apprenticeship Week launched by Business Minister Vince Cable mobilized a certain number of businesses, industrial federations, universities and training centers. Over...
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13 February 2012
Romania: Electrolux employees on strike for two weeks
Conflict over the signature of a collective agreement. Since January 24, the Romanian household appliance manufacturing plant owned by the Swedish group has been paralyzed. Why? Because 850...
10 February 2012
Italy: Maschio Gaspardo Group signs agreement safeguarding jobs for the next three years
“We decided to reward our employees’ loyalty and commitment because, as our traditional slogan says, ‘Together Wins.’” This is how Egidio Maschio, CEO and co-founder of Maschio Gaspardo*...
9 February 2012
EU: first meeting of UNI-Europa’s EWC coordinator network
The coordinators’ role. UNI-Europa’s EWC coordinator network is taking shape. The idea isn’t new; for year, the federation has been willing to encourage exchanges between its representatives...
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9 February 2012
Italy: Hewlett Packard Italiana signs new company agreement, 25 years after the last one
Workers unanimously approved the agreement, which will be in force between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2014. Here are the key provisions.
9 February 2012
Italy: Banco Popolare introduces sabbatical to combine cost cutting and work-life balance requirements
This “agreement is particularly innovative because it combines banks’ need to save money and workers’ private demands.” This is what Fabi’s Banco Popolare coordination said to define the...
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8 February 2012
Germany: for the first time, the IG-Metall plans to put agency workers on strike
“Sectoral bonuses” for agency workers in the metal industry. “We now represent agency workers on many sites (…). Thus, in the spring, there will be a few actions involving temporary workers...
8 February 2012
Spain: the social partners adjust the public system for out-of-court dispute settlement to new collective bargaining stakes
The agreement signed on February 7 aims to improve the role and intervention capability of the public mediation and arbitration system (SIMA), introduced at national level via an interconfederal...
8 February 2012
Germany: researchers warn against the limitations of work-study training
The two sides of work-study training. Work-study training, where theoretical training in a professional school is combined with practical training in a company for two to three years, is one of...
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7 February 2012
Italy: the transformation of labor at Pirelli at the center of a play
“The factory is a delicate place of activities and relationships, contrast, but mostly dialogue and original syntheses. (…) Representing its dynamics in the theater is a way of giving the public...
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7 February 2012
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025