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Sweden: technology social partners lay foundation for coming sectoral negotiations
titive while dealing with employees’ interests? It is the underlying question for the coming negotiations in the technological industry. Following the claims released on September 20th by...
10 October 2011
Germany: IG-Metall Conference celebrates the success of its strategic shift
e, organized every four years, started on Sunday, October 9th in Lüdenscheid and will end on the evening of October 15th. The 481 delegates will have to vote nearly 500 motions. These include...
10 October 2011
EU: 3rd Uni Europa Congress calls for union for better action
ber 3-5 for the 3rd time, the Conference of the European services workers union, Uni Europa, introduced the “Union-Vision-Action” program for the next four years. For the organization...
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10 October 2011
Germany: Deutsche Post extends Job Security Pact until 2015 but decreases entry level pay
Deutsche Post and the Verdi services' union agreed, on October 6th, on a series of measures allowing the company to better face market trends and the development of society. Key measures affect...
6 October 2011
Sweden: Almega employers’ organization wants to upgrade collective agreements
ctive agreements” declared Almega, the key sectoral employers’ organization with 10,000 businesses in services, at its press conference on September 21st. In preparation for the coming...
6 October 2011
Italy: Manageritalia and Confcommercio renew national collective agreement for service managers
Increased social protection, training and retraining for unemployed senior executives, incentives to appoint young people to managerial positions and a EUR 390 wage increase are the strong points...
6 October 2011
United States: about fifteen unions show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has evolved. About 15 unions (SEIU, CWA, UAW, United Federation of Teachers...) declared solidarity with the young protesters who have been occupying Zuccotti Park, close to...
6 October 2011
Austria: unprecedented clash in metal collective bargaining
ers’ unions announced a figured wage claim for collective negotiations before. Never had they called for a strike after the first bargaining meeting either. Now they have, after the meeting...
6 October 2011
Belgium: unions are looking for candidates for the 2012 employee representation bodies’ election
s of Works Councils (WCs) and Committees for prevention and protection at the workplace (Comités pour la prévention et la protection au travail, CPPT) will take place in May 2012 in...
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6 October 2011
EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks “EWCs should be a platform for unions’ work”
lanet Labor during the Congress of the European services’ union, Uni Europa, which took place in Toulouse, France, on October 4-5, Oliver Roethig, the federation’s new regional...
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6 October 2011
Germany: Daimler staff get job security until 2016
000 German employees: they are safe from layoffs until December 31, 2016. After relatively quick negotiations, the carmaker’s management and central WC agreed, on October 5th, on the renewal...
5 October 2011
Luxembourg: social partners are back at the bargaining table
ad been on hold for a year and a half. The government, employers’ representatives and unions finally met on September 29th. While the very existence of automatic indexing is no longer in...
5 October 2011
United States: employment is still the key priority in the auto industry with the agreement signed with Ford
three weeks ago, Ford is the second American carmaker to reach an understanding with United Auto Workers (UAW). The tentative agreement, even if it doesn’t provide for a general wage...
5 October 2011
Denmark: “cooperation” and “renewal” on the menu of the new government’s program
iations, the leader of the coalition that won the legislative election of September 15th, Helle Thorning-Schmidt (social-democratic party) introduced, on Monday, October 3rd, her government and...
4 October 2011
Morocco: child labor at stake again
A problem hard to measure. In 2006, Human Rights Watch published the results of a survey which showed that approximately 600,000 children were working and that there were 66,000 ‘little maids.’ ...
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3 October 2011
Danone: global agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress
gned its ninth global agreement with the International Union of Food Workers (IUF). After social dialogue, diversity or even the steps to take in the event of a change in operations affecting...
3 October 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...
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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