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EADS: new European agreement on success-sharing
Now that it has a framework for the negotiation of transnational agreements (see our dispatch No. 100677), EADS has renegotiated its success-sharing agreement, which dated back to 2009. The new...
13 July 2011
Italy: banking social partners agree on reforming the sector’s solidarity fund
“A historical victory for the entire union movement since it avoided early or compulsory retirement for 30,000 Italian workers at a time of severe economic and social crisis.” This is how the...
12 July 2011
Italy: temporary social partners launch sectoral pension funds
“At European level, there has been no similar experience in the sector. Therefore, Italy can pride itself in being the first, building a system capable of protecting agency workers throughout...
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11 July 2011
Romania: harsh restructurings and privatizations in the offing for State companies
Numerous cuts. The Romanian government is preparing a major wave of restructurings within State companies with financial difficulties: this summer alone, nearly 7,000 jobs should be cut in energy...
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11 July 2011
Germany: growth is starting to show in wage increases negotiated in 2011
Moderate but durable increases. According to the latest quarterly monitor of wage negotiated within the framework of sectoral collective agreements of the Hans Böckler foundation, collective...
11 July 2011
Spain: unions and Telefónica management agree on 6,500 job cuts over 3 years
Unions agreed to the 3-year employment reduction program (ERE) affecting up to 6,500 employees. The company accepted to improve its initial offer and will pay employees who leave 68% of their...
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8 July 2011
Germany: Federal Government decides to work on the introduction of minimum wage in call centers
Gross hourly pay between €5.77 and €6.50, tough rhythms, overtime not counted, less than 20 days off a year, permanent shifting between the company’s different services or absence of training…. ...
6 July 2011
Italy: leather social partners sign unitary agreement renewing the sectoral national collective agreement
Pointing out that union relations in the sectors have “always been rather complicated and ambivalent,” the Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil unions rejoiced with the signature, on June 28th...
6 July 2011
Great Britain: Sodexo signs union recognition agreement with the three biggest unions in Britain
The agreement sets out terms of the formal relationship between Sodexo and the three unions in terms of a strategic partnership. It also identifies the guiding principles for the relationship...
6 July 2011
Italy: Assolombarda employers’ organization and Milan unions sign agreement on training during a crisis
“With this agreement, the social partners in Milan sought to apply the principle included in the Lombardian pacts for active labor policies 2011 which states that company union agreements on...
6 July 2011
Belgium: draft banking collective agreement 2011-2012
Buying power. The political unrest Belgium is going through as well as turmoil in the euro area didn’t make bargaining easy in the banking sector. The economic and financial crisis had an impact...
4 July 2011
Finland: unions and employers allegedly reached an agreement on the principle of extending paternity and parental leave
A secret five-page document released by the Nykypäivä weekly, close to the Rally for the Republic (Kokoomus, right wing), shows that key union and employers’ organizations in the country have...
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4 July 2011
Germany: computer specialists earned 3.4% more in 2010
Wage increases for German computer specialists have gone up again in 2010, with a 3.4% increase. In 2009, during the crisis, it was only 2%. “This much higher increase is the consequence of...
4 July 2011
Italy: new “Pact supporting and reviving competitiveness and employment” in pharmaceutical chemistry
The objective of this pact is to answer the needs in the sector, where production started increasing again in 2010 (+6%), where employment decreased less than in previous years (-1.4%) but where...
4 July 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers’ union intensifies strike movement against private rail companies
Intimidatory measures against strikers. Since last February, the GDL corporatist union has been trying, via massive strikes, to force the Deutsche Bahn’s key private rivals to adopt three...
4 July 2011
Great Britain: public sector unions start mobilizing against the pension reform
The action was taken by members of the PCS civil servants union, ATL and NUT teachers’ unions and the college and university union, the UCU. In the run up to the action, the tone of the government...
1 July 2011
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
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...
8 December 2025
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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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