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Sweden: unions are facing competition from private firms
How to offer union-like services without being a union. Currently, there are two reasons why workers should join a union: their collective rights are defended and they get a multitude of other...
12 December 2011
Groupama: amendment adjusting the EWC agreement to the new European Directive
Information/consultation. Thus, employee representatives are assured “information and consultation at appropriate level and in a timely manner.” Information is defined as “the transmission of...
12 December 2011
Germany: Postbank and Verdi put an end to their conflict on the transfer of employees to external companies
In Verdi’s eyes, this conflict on the transfer, announced last summer, of about 1,500 Postbank employees (out of 22,000) to external companies, within the framework of the DB’s takeover of...
12 December 2011
Carrefour: the French company and UNI Global union create Carrefour Colombia union
Global agreement for the creation of Carrefour unions. On December 1, 112 workers of Carrefour Colombia created their own union organization, called Unión de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores de...
12 December 2011
SAP: new agreement establishing a EWC
Atypical philosophy of employee representation. After a two-year bargaining and thinking process, launched in 2009, SAP announced that a majority of the 29 members of the SNB agreed on the final...
12 December 2011
EADS: new European agreement on the harmonization of the variable remuneration of Senior Managers
Senior Managers (L4) working in businesses where EADS holds over 50% of the capital in the countries where the country is primarily present (Germany, UK, Spain, France) are going to be subject to...
11 December 2011
ArcelorMittal: what union strategy after European mobilization?
Investment. Unions say there were 40,000 in Liege, Belgium – police say there were 15,000. In Luxembourg, 95% off ArcelorMittal staff allegedly mobilized. The ArcelorMittal also affected sites...
9 December 2011
Italy: 45th Censis report on the country’s social situation
Employment changes. The crisis slowed down in 2010 (153,000 jobs lost as opposed to 380,000 in 2009) and in 2011 (+0.4% employment boost in the first quarter). However, permanent employment...
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9 December 2011
France – Great Britain: union finances, a debate on both sides of the Channel
ce, the issue of union funding came (back) up in public debates in recent days. In the UK, it was the result of a report from the TaxPayers’ Alliance, which led the Prime Minister to support...
8 December 2011
Germany: 4.6% wage increase in two installments in the paper industry
This year, union and employer negotiators in the paper industry (40,000 employees) started the collective negotiations for the renewal of an agreement expiring on November 30 with very different...
8 December 2011
Romania: bargaining for mimimum wage increase
Possible increase from RON 670 up to RON 700. On Tuesday, the center-right government told unions and employers that it was going to look into the possibility of increasing monthly minimum wage...
8 December 2011
Germany: IG BCE chemistry union and key temporary work federation sign deal paving the way for general equal pay between temporary and permanent workers
Threatening with a law. The social partners and the political parties have also been bitterly debating the issue of equal pay for several years. However, so far, only the social partners in the...
7 December 2011
Italy: the three key trade unions call for unitary strike against the Monti administration’s austerity program
Unanimously “worried” by the impact the “economic maneuver” (see our dispatch No. 110750) is going to have on “employees, pensioners and the country’s development prospects,” the leaders of the...
7 December 2011
Corporate practices: ING DiBa, the German direct bank, is training apprentices over 50
A second chance for seniors. “I am proud of myself. I was able to prove that, unlike what people think, you can learn new things no matter how old you are.” Christa Louis is one of the 20...
6 December 2011
Netherlands: FNV disbanded
The FNV, 1.4 million members, no longer exists. This federation, created in 1982 after the merger of two major protestant unions, is going to rise from its ashes with a new name, ‘De Nieuwe...
5 December 2011
Denmark: new FAOS report analyzes changing union dynamics in the country
With traditional unions facing competition from low-cost unions (see our dispatches No. 110674 and 110123), the researchers are talking about an ‘organizing market’ to characterize the Danish...
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5 December 2011
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Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
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14 October 2025
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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