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Germany: unions launch national action day in 1,000 businesses for equal treatment between permanent and temporary employees
National action day for equal pay. True to their new strategy of involving employees more actively in the protection of their interest, and as a clear message to employers, German unions decided...
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24 February 2011
Greece: protest is not getting weaker
Demonstrators massively answered unions’ call on Wednesday, marching in close ranks in the streets of Athens. Police say 30,000 came which organizers say between 60,000 and 100,000 came. For the...
24 February 2011
Finland: social partners commit to continue action organized since 2005 to reduce the gender pay gap
In a joint declaration published on February 10th, the key union confederations in Finland (SAK, STTK and Akava) and the key employers’ organizations in the public sector (churches, communities...
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24 February 2011
Italy: Fiat keeps applying its model in Italian undertakings in spite of the Fiom-CGIL’s opposition
On February 15th, Fiat managing director Sergio Marchionne told the committee on productive activities of the Chamber of Deputies that Fiat’s “head” would remain in Turin provided that the...
24 February 2011
Great Britain: pay disputes spread because of increasing cost of living
The main factors explaining this considerable increase are the rise in the standard rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 17.5% to 20% and the continued increase in the price of crude oil. With this...
23 February 2011
Germany: 130,000 employees in textile get a 3.6% wage increase
Union satisfaction. For the first time ever, the IG-Metall union and the Confederation of the German Textile and Fashion Industry (Gesamtverband textil + mode) managed to reach an agreement...
23 February 2011
Austria: Telekom Austria offers “golden early retirement” to its employees
800 requests for “golden early retirement” are currently pending at Telekom Austria’s personnel services. “The program is a total success. I think that, this year, 350 colleagues are going to...
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22 February 2011
Belgium: government chooses its compromise offer to make up for the absence of cross-industry agreement
Application of the agreement. After an umpteenth meeting with the social partners on Friday morning, premier Yves Leterme asked his government to start the implementation of the draft compromise...
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21 February 2011
Germany: government agrees to the introduction of minimum wage in interim, surveillance and continuous education
Moderate increase of the Hartz IV allowance. In February 2010, the Karlsruhe federal constitutional court forced the coalition parties to review the amount and calculation modalities of the Hartz...
21 February 2011
Rhodia: renewal of the global agreements on social and environmental responsibility
This new renewal of the agreement, already renewed in 2008 (see our dispatch No. 080333), ads the addendum signed in 2010 which provided for the creation of a “global safety panel” whose mission...
21 February 2011
Denmark: sponsorship, unions’ new “weapon” to recruit new members
Until the summer 2013, the AG København (AGK) handball team will bear, on their T-shirts, the names and logos of the Det Faglig Hus and Krifa unions. Via an unheard-of alliance in Denmark, the...
21 February 2011
Italy: 3rd national conference of call center workers warns about relocations in the industry
The SLC organized the 3rd national conference of call center workers on February 18-19 in Rome. Three years after the stabilization procedures, which led to permanent contracts for nearly 25,000...
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21 February 2011
Germany: Hartz IV regulations reforming unemployment insurance didn’t help reinstate long-term jobseekers
Last week, the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur – BA) provided, for the first time, figures published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, confirming that the people who receive the Hartz IV...
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21 February 2011
Netherlands: negotiations open in the basic metal industry
Negotiations for the new collective agreement started on February 16th in basic metalworking, under the sign of “increasingly worsening deterioration” said Jan Berghuis, negotiator for the...
18 February 2011
Italy: CGIL’s federation of Commerce, Filcams, launches campaign to regulate work on legal holidays
Increasingly, trade workers have to work on Sunday and legal holidays to meet the demand from retailing, small trades, towns, consumers, to the detriment of laws and collective agreements...
17 February 2011
Germany: collective bargaining fails again at Deutsche Telekom, leading to three weeks of warning strikes
“It’s not possible that, until 2012, shareholders will receive annual dividends amounting to €3.4bn while the people who create this wealth leave empty-handed” declared Harald Dressler, one of...
17 February 2011
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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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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