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Germany: with the constant regulation of temporary work, businesses are increasingly turning to subcontracting in all sector
The “new disease of the employment market.” 450 customs agents took part, on Tuesday, January 24, in a major police raid in several logistic centers and offices belonging to Kaufland (Schwarz...
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26 January 2012
Germany: agreement on employment reduction without layoffs at EON
No layoffs. Opened in November 2011, the difficult negotiations on the social plan coming along the thousands of job cuttings announced by EON were finally completed on Tuesday, January 24. ...
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26 January 2012
United States: lock-outs are back
American businesses are renewing with an old weapon: lockouts, i.e. the management ordering the temporary closure of a plant. American Crystal Sugar, a world-class agricultural cooperative...
25 January 2012
Spain: unions and employers sign a series of agreements preparing for the labor market reform
Two weeks after acknowledging the impossibility to achieve the negotiations within the deadline given by the government to prepare the labor market reform, the social partners reached a partial...
24 January 2012
Greece: company agreements and pay cuts are expanding
Article 37 of Act 4024/2011, voted last October (see our dispatch No. 110640) facilitates the conclusion of company agreements, which will take precedence over sectoral agreements. Thus, in...
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23 January 2012
Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers
Tolerance: a duty and a need. With 12,000 employees from 71 different countries and 56 million passengers from all over the world, Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, the third busiest airport...
23 January 2012
France: interview of Marcel Grignard, CFDT deputy general secretary, on the government’s plan to make competitiveness-employment contracts take precedence over labor contracts
During the social summit of January 18, President Nicolas Sarkozy presented the social partners with an idea: developing competitiveness-employment agreements allowing adjusting working conditions...
23 January 2012
Petrobras: global framework agreement signed with ICEM uploaded
In this agreement, which aims to apply to Petrobras entities abroad and which the group is going to promote among its subcontractors, the 3rd largest energy company in the world commits to respect...
23 January 2012
Belgium: joint union front calls general strike on January 30
Dialogue. They denounce the lack of social dialogue that comes with the adoption and implementation of the measures. Shortly after the government’s agreement in early December providing for...
23 January 2012
Italy: banking social partners renew national collective agreement
The “best possible outcome for union organizations without a second of strike.” This is how Lando Maria Sileoni, leader of FABI, the majority union in the sector, qualified this agreement. ...
23 January 2012
Spain: agreement on the new collective agreement in the construction sector
The representatives of the national construction confederation (CNC) and of the MCA-UGT and FECOMA-CCOO union organizations signed, on January 20, the 2012-2016 agreement. The end of the debates...
23 January 2012
Norway: after the January 18 strike, key unions are rejecting the transposition of the European directive on temporary work
Political strike to reject the transposition of the Directive. Norway, along with EU countries, Iceland and Liechtenstein, is part of the European Economic Area and, as such, benefits from the...
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23 January 2012
Germany: in 2011, worked and saved working hours and the work week increased
More work, more overtime, more working people. The number of hours worked in Germany increased in 2011. over the 3rd 2011 quarter, 11,776 million hours were worked, i.e. 1.3 percent more than...
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20 January 2012
Poland: union organizations suspend participation in the Tripartite Committee
Joint initiative. It was the first time the leaders of the three union confederations (Piotr Duda of NSZZ Solidarnosc, Tadeusz Chwalka of the Union Forum (FZZ) and Jan Guz of OPZZ) organized a...
19 January 2012
Great Britain: future merger between PCS and Unite is taking shape
The unions are not yet in formal merger talks Serwotka made clear in a recent interview with the Financial Times newspaper that he wanted to keep deepening the ‘ever closer developing...
19 January 2012
Compass: agreement with the IUF international union federation on union freedom at Eurest Algeria
Complaint. Seized by workers at Eurest, a company located in southern Algeria responsible for catering in several multinationals in the region, the IUF filed a complaint, on December 14, 2009...
18 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