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Spain: CEOE employers’ organization wants to reconsider wage increases set with unions for 2012
rganizations have started bargaining for the wage moderation agreement for the 2013-2014 period, the CEOE announced that it was questioning the current agreement, in force until 2012. Thus, it is...
28 September 2011
Romania: unions and employers ask the government to revive social dialogue
s asked the Emil Boc administration, on Tuesday, to revive social dialogue, which they feel is broken after recent legislative developments and the delay in implementing some reforms passed before...
28 September 2011
Great Britain: Labour Party leader Ed Miliband tries to reduce unions’ influence
The irony of this is that although the unions bankroll Labour and
secured Miliband’s election last year (see
our dispatch No. 100587), they have very little influence on decision-making and...
27 September 2011
Sodexo: Interview of Hugh Owens, director of reward, pensions and employee relations at Sodexo UK
rd, pensions and employee relations at Sodexo UK, is telling Planet Labor how unions and Sodexo’s management have been working together for years. He is also talking about the content of the...
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27 September 2011
Italy: Fiom-CGIL announces claim platform for the renewal of the metal collective agreement
embly approved, last week, its claim platform for the renewal of the 2008 national collective agreement in the metal industry. The metalworkers’ federation notably proposes reviewing the...
26 September 2011
Poland: social partners determine working program for the coming months
artners determined, during the meeting of the tripartite committee (unions-employers-government) on September 12-13, their working program: maximum duration of fixed-term contracts, determining...
26 September 2011
Italy: report on Italian-style joint representation
While the birth of joint organizations dates back to the first mutual rescue funds (“casse di mutuo soccorso”) in the 19th century, it is in construction and graphics that the first true joint...
23 September 2011
Germany: gross earnings up by 4.2% in the second 2011 quarter
The vigorous growth in Germany since the beginning of the year is showing on the increase in gross incomes which, in the second 2011 quarter, went up by 4.2% in average compared with the same...
23 September 2011
Australia: ACTU union presents biggest survey ever made on the Australian working environment
The Australian Central Trade Union (ACTU) released, on September 7th, the biggest survey ever made on the working environment. This survey, called "Voices from Working Australia" and based on the...
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22 September 2011
Spain: Manpower allowed to work as a placement agency for jobseekers
The Ministry of Labor allowed Manpower to extend its competences into a placement agency. Manpower is the first private group to leave the interim sphere and take part in the placement of...
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22 September 2011
Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions sign agreement reached with Confindustria on representativeness and company agreements
“We confirmed that negotiation is the province of the parties’ autonomy, not of the government.” CGIL leader Susanna Camusso summed up the outcome of yesterday morning’s meeting at the...
21 September 2011
Lithuania: controversy over the right to strike
ike at the biggest beer manufacturer in Lithuania, “Švyturys-Utenos Alus,” revived the debate on the right to strike, very strictly supervised in the country. (Ref. 110561)...
21 September 2011
Netherlands: employers reject “systematic” wage increases in collective agreements
.5% wage increase in 2012 and employers say it is too much. They are criticizing this trend of “systematic” increases. (Ref. 110562) One of the biggest members of the Confederation of...
21 September 2011
Great Britain: Fujitsu staff repeatedly on strike
technology (IT) services company, Fujitsu, has experienced two recent industrial disputes. While the second conflict continues, with Unite blaming the company for failure to comply with collective...
21 September 2011
EU: home stretch for the creation of European and international manufacturing federations
ake place on May 16, 2012 for the European federation and on June 19-20 for the international organization. (Ref. 110559) Regional structure. The merger of European manufacturing union federations...
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20 September 2011
Germany: reelected as Verdi’s leader, Frank Bsirske demands the introduction of statutory minimum wage of EUR 8.5 an hour
More women on the
steering committee. Verdi, which has set equal opportunities as
one of its priorities, has shown the way during its Congress. Of the 14 people appointed to the union’s...
20 September 2011
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Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026