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France: cross-industry negotiations on competitiveness-employment agreements should start soon
Hard for the trade unions to turn this offer down, as doing so would have led to an immediate legislative initiative. Indeed, Premier François Fillon told the press that, in the absence of a...
6 February 2012
Estonia: unions mobilize against the bill on collective agreements
A bill that doesn’t favor negotiations. The current Collective Agreements Act was adopted in 1993 and amended in 2009. It provides that collective agreements come into force the day they are...
6 February 2012
Great Britain: My Civil Service Pension, first experiment for the “Big Society” concept by Prime Minister James Cameron
Around 450 staff in the Department will cease to be public sector employees in March 2012 and become stakeholders in MyCSP (My Civil Service Pension), a privately-owned mutual that will handle the...
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3 February 2012
Italy: launch of the Regional Observatory on Enel’s working group in Latium
Enel and the regional structures of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions in Latium signed an agreement, on January 27, on the creation of the Confederal Regional Observatory on the group’s industrial...
2 February 2012
EU: first joint executive committee for the EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL to prepare their coming merger
No to austerity. Michael Vassiliadis, current EMCEF President, will be the new federation’s Chairman; EMF general secretary, Ulrich Eckelmann, will be the new general secretary and Bart Samyn...
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2 February 2012
United States: National Oil Bargaining Policy shows will to better prevent accidents
United Steelworkers (USW) announced, on Tuesday, January 31, a few hours before the previous framework agreement, in force since 2009, expired, a new three-year deal with Shell, representing oil...
2 February 2012
Morocco: creation of a union-employers social mediation committee
Failure of the conciliation procedures provided for in the Labor Code. The Union of Moroccan Workers (Union Marocaine des Travailleurs, UMT) and the General Confederation of Moroccan...
1 February 2012
Great Britain: RMT transport union reaches very favourable deal on a strategic line for the Olympic Games this summer in London
Serco Docklands, which operates the driver-less train service but has on-board train staff, agreed to a rise in the standard overtime rate for about 550 of its employees, making overtime paid at...
1 February 2012
United States: union membership stable around 12 percent
“In 2011, the union membership rate was 11.8 percent, essentially unchanged from 11.9 percent in 2010,” the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on January 27. while in the public sector...
31 January 2012
Australia: unions are looking for alternatives to the possibility of 7,000 job cuts in two years in the banking sector
Layoffs in spite of profit. most key banks in Australia, such as the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), the National Australia Bank, Westpac or...
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31 January 2012
Portugal: new management for the CGTP confederation and left-wing intensification
End of a 25-year term. Manuel Carvalho da Silva put an end to his job as CGTP general secretary during the union’s 12th Congress on January 28-29, concerned by the age limit (62) imposed by the...
30 January 2012
Germany: Lufthansa and Verdi sign a variable geometry collective agreement with a 3.5 percent wage increase
The agreement presented by Lufthansa and the German services union and the negotiations that led to it are symbolic of the way collective negotiations are evolving in German businesses. At...
30 January 2012
Italy: wave of social movements against the government’s measures
“Success.” This is how the USB (Unione Sindacale di Base) qualified the first general strike organized by the independent unions – Usb, Orsa, SlaiCobas, Cib-Unicobas, Snater, SiCobas and Usi –...
30 January 2012
Alstom: European agreement on social commitments during the transition period of the joint venture between Alstom and Shanghai Electric
ederation (EMF) and Alstom management have already signed European agreements concerning social guarantees within the framework of an operation likely to have an impact on employment. In a new...
27 January 2012
Germany: lobbied by its members, the IG-Metall is calling for a 6.5-7 percent wage increase
6.5 percent increase, adjustment included. “In the coming weeks, golden reports and record results are going to be released. Employees are simply asking for a fair share of what was made...
26 January 2012
Spain: revisiting the 2nd agreement on employment and collective bargaining 2012, 2013 and 2014
The key points of the agreement were revealed the day before (see our dispatch No. 120054). It contains the commitment to major wage moderation, with wage increases which won’t exceed 0.5...
26 January 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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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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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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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