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Spain: the war between employers’ leaders encourages metal employers to present its candidate for the presidency of the CEPYME, the confederation of SMEs
The election, in May, of the President of the Confederation of Small and Medium-Size Businesses (CEPYME), lets the personal conflicts between the leader of the CEOE and his counterpart from...
2 March 2010
Germany: tough compromise on the wage agreement for employees of the Federal State and Towns and their businesses
3-step wage increase. Reached after a conciliation procedure, the agreement provides for a first 1.2% wage increase on January 1, 2010, followed by a 0.6% wage increase on January 1, 2011 and 0.5%...
1 March 2010
Italy: social partners in cement, lime and plaster unitarily renew their collective agreement
Fillea CGIL, Filca-Cisl, and Feneal Uil (unions) and the Federmaco employers’ organization signed a unitary agreement on February 18 to renew the national collective agreement in cement, lime and...
1 March 2010
Deutsche Telekom: in spite of Verdi’s support, its American counterpart, CWA, is having trouble asserting itself at T Mobile
“We split up the roles” explained Ed Sabol, permanent CWA member. “Ver.di bargains with the management, CWA organizes the ranks.” T Mobile’s stores and call centers in the US are not open to...
1 March 2010
Portugal: creation of the Portuguese Confederation of Construction and Real Estate
Defending the sector. The Confederation of Construction and Real Estate (Confederação da Construção e do Imobiliário, CCI), gathers the sector’s employer organizations and trade associations. It...
26 February 2010
Opel/Vauxhall: six metalworking union leaders and EMF agree on claims for the group’s restructuring
February 23 by the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF), which gathered union leaders from Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and the UK, signed a declaration asking...
25 February 2010
Italy: unions agree to the three-year program on employment of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL-BNP Paribas)
Maintaining benefits. The coordination also said that the elements of understanding of the 2007-09 industrial plan were included as such and that the rules and criteria defining geographical...
25 February 2010
Spain: mild support for the demonstrations against the pension reform
on February 23 by Workers’ Commissions and UGT in the country’s largest cities to protest against the draft pension reform were relatively successful. Unions say that 200,000 people...
24 February 2010
Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign an agreement for the renewal of the CCN
ental leave, new layoff pay, better monitoring of the health of night workers, new advantages for shift workers, and a new equal pay authority; these are the key novelties of the agreement for the...
24 February 2010
Germany: following its pilots’ strike, Lufthansa’s management demands legal intervention to guarantee tariff unity
ays, the strike organized by Lufthansa’s pilots only lasted for 24 hours. Cockpit, the airline pilots’ union, and Lufthansa representatives announced, on the evening of Monday...
23 February 2010
Italy: government, social partners and regions sign agreement on guidelines for training in 2010
ramework agreement on training in 2010 – signed last week between the government, the social partners and the regions – affect the reorientation of training for jobseekers, workers in...
23 February 2010
GDF Suez: European agreement on fundamental health and safety principles
Ad hoc negotiating body. This agreement was negotiated between the management and a special negotiating body composed of 31 representatives from 13 European countries, appointed by the trade union...
23 February 2010
Great Britain: British Airways employees vote for a new strike
on February 22: 80.7% of the 11,700 cabin crew at British Airways decided to strike to protests against the management’s unilateral cost cutting policy. Unite is hoping that this threat is...
23 February 2010
GDF Suez: European agreement on job and skills planning
F Suez, the special negotiating body and the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) signed, on February 23, a European agreement on job and skills planning. This agreement, drawing a...
23 February 2010
Germany: Netto accepts works councils in all its subsidiaries
Agreement guaranteeing the election of WCs. For Ver.di, which has been fighting for years for better working conditions and improved employee representation among German discounting chains, the...
23 February 2010
Great Britain: government proposes banning the deduction of travel expenses from minimum wage to protect low-paid agency workers
ndment to the Minimum Wage Act in order to ensure that employers who pay minimum wage won’t deduct travel or subsistence expenses from this amount – a widespread practice among...
22 February 2010
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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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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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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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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
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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