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Germany: Lidl wants minimum wage in retail trade
r in Germany, Lidl, requested, in an open letter published on February 17, 2010 in the German press, that the social partners in retail trade, a sector that employs 2.9 million people, 930,000 of...
19 February 2010
Italy: renewal at the center of the 14th Congress of the Uil’s metalworkers’ federation, Uilm
and “key decisions for the defense and improvement of working conditions,” including proposals on the reform of representativeness by the summer, the renewal of the union organization...
19 February 2010
Germany: metal partners sign “historical” collective agreement on job security with a minimum wage increase
l and Gesamtmetall (employers) in the “pilot region,” North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) announced, on Thursday, February 18 in Düsseldorf, that they reached an agreement on wages and...
18 February 2010
Great Britain: heating and ventilation engineers to enjoy agreements signed between unions and electrical firms
the Electrical Contracting Industry, which gathers employers in the electrical sector, and Unite, the key construction union, defines standard working conditions for the trade. This structure is...
18 February 2010
Germany: the small Confederation of Christian Unions (CGB) signs an “exemplary” collective agreement in the temporary sector
ve agreement in the temporary sector between the Confederation of Christian Unions (CGB-CGZP) and the Federation of Small Temporary Employers (AMP) is an affront for the large trade union...
17 February 2010
Germany: IG-Metall and Volkswagen sign pact on job security through 2014 for 95,000 German employees
Job security through 2014. While the German economy is in slow motion, Volkswagen’s assembly lines are working full speed and the company is affording the luxury of granting job security to 95,000...
16 February 2010
Austria: energy and oil social partners negotiate 1.45-1.7% wage increase
It is after their second meeting that the energy social partners concluded an agreement on the evolution of wages and bonuses in the sector. The agreement, which affects 18,000 employees, provides...
16 February 2010
Denmark: negotiations for the renewal of the manufacturing collective agreement were temporarily paused
The objective to reach an agreement by February 12 presented by the social partners when negotiations started for the renewal of the manufacturing collective agreement (see our dispatch No...
15 February 2010
Italy: Cisl creates new union for atypical workers
“Flexible and independent workers have to be paid and protected better than others” said Cisl general secretary Raffaele Bonnani when launching the new union, Felsa (see our dispatch No. 090989)...
15 February 2010
Companies: unions urge HSBC and Santander to sign an international framework agreement
Community banks. Uni Finance targeted these two banks in particular because they’re leaders in financial services for individuals, or at least presented as such. HSBC, already well established on...
15 February 2010
Sweden: Ericsson implements training on better working conditions for all its managers
Arbetsmiljöverket imposes working on the labor environment. The Working Environment Act imposes that businesses systematically work on this topic, following the Arbetsmiljöverket’s directives. The...
15 February 2010
Spain: unions mobilized against pension reform
The leaders of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) and of the UGT called for their first mobilization against the government since Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero came to power in 2004. For the moment, they...
15 February 2010
Germany: Verdi and IG-Metall reject the collective agreement presented in January with the Association of Temporary Employers (BZA)
High competition between the social partners. The two big German unions, Ver.di and IG-Metall, may pay a very high price for their faux-pas in the temporary sector. This sector, which only truly...
11 February 2010
Spain: metal sector prepares for negotiations for its first national collective agreement
According to CCOO, the metal sector most suffered from employers’ freeze on the revision of wage criteria in 2009 (see our dispatch No. 090617). The situation was even chaotic because of the...
11 February 2010
Italy: anticrisis strategy at the center of the 3rd Congress of the Uilcem, the Uil’s chemistry-pharmacy, mining, energy and oil federation
The Unione Italiana Lavoratori della Chimica dell'Energia e del Manifatturiero (Uilcem, the Uil's chemical, pharmaceutical, mining, energy, oil, engineering, services, rubber-plastic, glass...
11 February 2010
Corporate practices: BMW launches the “Produktionsystem 2017” project, assembly lines adapted to demographic ageing
All manufacturing firms on the old continent are now wondering the same thing: how can we keep improving production rhythm and quality with experienced but ageing workers? Bavarian carmaker BMW...
11 February 2010
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Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
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...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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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