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Portugal: wage negotiations at Volkswagen’s Lisbon factory (Palmela) in a context of revived production
Raise. VW’s working committee in the Palmela factory (near Lisbon) is asking for a 3.8% wage increase for the 3,000 employees of the factory, with a “limit” €40 increase for all. Negotiations will...
20 July 2010
Great Britain: engineering construction industry still boiling
The specific grievances concerned the importation of non-domiciled workers to undertake work in the industry while domiciled workers were without work and on rates of pay below the industry norm...
20 July 2010
Italy: supplementary health insurance increasingly wins over wage increases
More and more businesses introduce supplementary health care plans among mutual insurance companies, insurance companies, corporate funds and sectoral funds for their employees. Luxottica, the...
20 July 2010
Greece: unhoped for agreement on a new national agreement for three years
Content of the agreement. This agreement, retroactive on January 1, 2010, provides for a wage freeze in 2010, a minimum 1.5% wage increase in 2011 and 1.7% in 2012, based on the percentage of...
20 July 2010
Austria: government to introduce controls and fines to fight wage dumping
€240 million shortfall. As in Germany, where the idea of minimum wage to limit cheap competition from workers from the new Member States is spreading, Austria is trying to protect itself from the...
19 July 2010
France: interview of Marcel Grignard, CFDT deputy national secretary
the pension reform, which is getting all the attention from the press and politicians in France because of the country’s news, the CFDT’s congress (in Tours from June 7th to June 11th...
16 July 2010
Greece: the drop in tourism worsens the economic situation and will also have an impact on the social situation in the fall
Cancellation wave. A government spokesman explained that, in May, “there were thousands of cancellations, with tens of thousands of euros lost each eek. Images of broken shop windows, or of...
16 July 2010
Italy: tourism social partners sign a unitary agreement for the renewal of the sectoral collective agreement
Tourism social partners – Filcams CGIL, Fisascat-Cisl and Uiltucs-Uil for unions, AICA and Federturismo (affiliated with Confindustria) for employers – signed, on July 9th, a unitary agreement for...
15 July 2010
Germany: collective negotiations started in the rail sector and promise to be complicated, and risky for users
The issue of containing “social and wage dumping” caused by the arrival of private rail operators in Germany is going to prevail during the collective negotiations which started on Monday, July...
13 July 2010
Italy: Fiat launches the industrial program for its Pomigliano d’Arco site
After two weeks of “suspense,” on Friday, July 9th, Fiat officially launched its restructuring program, “Fabbrica Italia.” During a meeting with the leaders of the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil, Fismic and...
13 July 2010
Great Britain: BT avoids a strike by granting an annual 3% wage increase
Successful negotiations. BT initially offered to increase wages by 2% this year and 3% net year (see our dispatch No. 100422). However, the CWU threatened with a historical strike and got a better...
13 July 2010
Italy: Labor Minister publishes employee “participation code”
On Wednesday, July 7th, Minister for Labor Maurizio Sacconi sent the social partners the first draft of the “profit-sharing code,” an “open” document which will be improved and updated via their...
12 July 2010
Dekra: the German certification company becomes a European company
Involvement with the supervisory board. Within the framework of the transformation into a SE, the company maintains its dual structure as well as an equal supervisory board. For the first term...
9 July 2010
Greece: adoption of the pension act and general strike
Big mobilization. This 24-hour strike paralyzed maritime, rail and air transport throughout the country. Over 80 domestic and international flights were cancelled and 110 were delayed because air...
9 July 2010
Italy: formal internal opposition building up within the CGIL
Analysis. For the founders, the Fiom’s “clear” position on the restructuring of Fiat’s Pomigliano site (see our dispatch No. 100480 on the opposition of the plan providing a drawback on social...
8 July 2010
Portugal: CGTP calls for national day of protest
Day of struggle. The CGTP ruled out full paralysis of the country but wants to “issue a warning against attempts to reform the Labor Code and the possibility of wage cuts,” declared Carvhalo da...
8 July 2010
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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