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Netherlands: historical agreement on the pension reform
The agreement on the pension reform, subject to a formal consensus between the social partners before the legislative election on June 9, 2010, was finally signed. Now the FNV has to endorse it...
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15 June 2011
Italy: Uil union confederation terminates 1993 protocol, the founding act for social relations in the country
As he announced last week, Uil general secretary Luigi Angeletti sent, on June 13th, to the President of the Council of Ministers, to the Ministry of Labor and to all the social partners, his...
14 June 2011
Italy: creation of Confindustria Digitale, the new employers’ federation in the digital industry
Confindustria Digitale is the result of the merger between the four biggest employers’ organizations in the digital sector: Assotelecomunicazioni-Asstel, which represents telecom businesses...
14 June 2011
Poland: ongoing negotiations on the extension of some of the provisions of the “Anticrisis Act” to make the labor market more flexible
The “Anticrisis Act,” included in the “Anticrisis Package” adopted by the social partners in 2009 (see our dispatches No. 090611 and 090555) to lessen the impact of the economic crisis introduced...
14 June 2011
Belgium: new collective agreement in the metal industry
Metal manufacturing. The new collective agreement of CP No. 111 (see our dispatch No. 110336), the social dialogue structure which, in Belgium, gathers sectors as varied as aeronautics, the auto...
14 June 2011
EU: 4th Congress of the European Metalworkers’ Federation paves the way for the final stage of the creation of a new joint Industry Federation
“It is true that we, the Nordic states, have quickened the process” acknowledged Stefan Löfven, leader of the Swedish IF Metall. While the project of creating a large manufacturing union...
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12 June 2011
Germany: quick renegotiation of collective agreements in wholesale trade and hope in retail trade
Ray of hope in retail trade. Two days earlier, in Stuttgart, Verdi’s union negotiators, who, in 11 regions, call for a 6-6.5% wage increase as well as equal pay for temporary workers and a limit...
10 June 2011
Germany: interview of Horst Mund, head of the department of “international policy” of the IG-Metall union
Horst Mund. My “international policy” department runs our activities abroad. We directly advise Berthold Huber, leader of the IG-Metall and of the IMF (editor’s note: International Metalworkers’...
9 June 2011
Germany: in energy, EON employees get a wage increase divided in two over 19 months
The outcome of the renewal of the collective agreements covering the 30,000 employees of the largest electricity provider in Germany, EON, as well as Tennet’s German employees, is far from the...
9 June 2011
Great Britain: bitter end to the conflict for the employees of the Hull bio-ethanol plant
The Redhall workers refused to accept dismissal and mounted a campaign of action including daily mass protests at Saltend, blockades of the gates, a temporary occupation of the construction site...
9 June 2011
Germany: Airbus employees are preparing strikes to limit appeal to agency workers and secure employment guarantee until 2020
Insufficient proposals and a “yellow card” for Thomas Enders; this is the message the IG-Metall, airbus Operations GmbH’s WC and German employees will send tomorrow, June 8th, to airbus management...
7 June 2011
Great Britain: government threatens to regulate the right to strike if industrial action increases
Cable said: ‘We are undoubtedly entering a difficult period [of austerity and public spending cuts]. Cool heads will be required all round. Despite occasional blips, I know that strike levels...
7 June 2011
Germany: 2nd largest IG-Metall regional federation wants to impose mandatory permanent recruitment of apprentices
Define the nature of industrial employment. The region’s employers weren’t happy with the IG-Metall NRW’s announcement. Indeed, Oliver Burkhard, tenacious leader of a regional union federation...
6 June 2011
Italy: giving in to union pressure, Fincantieri withdraws restructuring plan
With intense mobilization showing unusual unity in Italy, unions asked for the removal of the 2011-2014 industrial plan Fincantieri revealed on May 23rd. This plan provided for 2,551 job cuts –...
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6 June 2011
Spain: employers and unions break off talks on the reform of collective bargaining
Turnaround in the home run. Employers and union representatives spoke at separate press conferences and blamed each other for the failure of talks. Negotiations went off on Monday, May 30th...
6 June 2011
Poland: the social partners are working on a model of policies against moral harassment at work for businesses
The existing law (article 94.1 of the Labor Code) imposes that employers prevent moral harassment at work. However, legislation on the matter, quite recent, doesn’t give businesses the references...
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6 June 2011
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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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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
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025