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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
Italy:Uilm held first “cross-territory” national assembly
With the slogan, “What have we done and what remains to be done?”, the Uilm gathered, on February 14-15 in Rome, nearly 200 local union leaders from all Italian provinces as well as the...
16 February 2011
Austria: great internal retraining program in Austrian railway is having a hard time taking off
Trim administration and organize transfers. The issue of personnel costs, i.e. 43% of total exploitation costs, is one of the ÖBB’s numerous problems and forces the public company, every year, to...
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16 February 2011
Belgium: mediation on 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement failed
Employers’ support. Will the Belgian government override the rejection of the FGTB, second largest union in the country? The day of consultation on Monday, February 14th (see our dispatch No. ...
16 February 2011
Germany: one plant at a time, Continental Automotive negotiates “derogatory agreements” way below the sectoral collective agreement
Continental is doing better… The official communication of Continental Automotive is trying to look on the bright side. Since the beginning of the year, Continental has been multiplying...
15 February 2011
United States: interview of Wilma Liebman, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
Wilma Liebman. The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency created by statute, the National Labor Relations Act, which was first enacted by Congress in 1935. It was amended...
15 February 2011
Denmark: flexicurity system weakened by recent reforms
Highly mobile employees, secured income while unemployed and the certainty of finding a new job are the key elements of the Danish flexicurity system, based on a system of regulation of the labor...
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15 February 2011
Spain: first election at Seat after controversial competitiveness agreement of 2009 strengthens UGT union
On February 10th, 12,781 employees were called to elect 119 representatives from the five sites of Martorell (Zona Franca) and El Prat (Llobregat), in the outskirts of Barcelona. UGT is more...
15 February 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