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Portugal: new act introduces new tax system for golden parachutes
(No. 100/09) introduces a special tax system for managers’ benefits if they leave the company earlier than expected. It also amends corporations’ tax code to introduce a 35% tax for...
16 September 2009
General Motors: Magna’s takeover of Opel creates fear
d by the German government for the recovery of the German carmaker Opel bring fears of a restructuring program affecting, at first, employees in Belgium, Spain and Hungary. On Monday, September...
15 September 2009
Netherlands: for the first time, unions are going to discuss the wages of ING’s managers
ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands, agreed they would talk, in October, about huge wages within the bank, as part of the extension to December 31, 2011 of the current collective agreement...
15 September 2009
Germany: IG-Metall wants to reform its structures and focus on recruiting members
ll, the largest trade union in Germany (2.3 million members), announced that his organization was going to change its structure and improve the resources granted to local offices. They will have...
15 September 2009
Germany: substantial conflict could burst between Verdi union and the Deutsche Post
tember 14, 2009 in Berlin, Andrea Kocsis, VP of the Verdi services union, accused the Deutsche Post AG of using the economic crisis as an excuse to attack employees’wages and working...
14 September 2009
Italy: beginning of negotiations between the social partners on employee profit-sharing
distribution of profit to workers” – demanded by Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi to reach a ‘joint opinion’ with the social partners within two months – has been...
14 September 2009
Poland: social conflict around the privatization of the ENEA energy group
ing, to privatize the ENEA energy group, relations between the government and the group’s unions have been particularly tense. Unions denounce the conditions of the privatization, in favor...
14 September 2009
Italy: towards a separate agreement for the renewal of the metalworking CCN
f the metalworking national collective agreement resumed on September 10, the Federmeccanica employers’ federation announced that it would only base the negotiations on the joint platform...
14 September 2009
Austria: collective bargaining about to be tough in metalworking and civil service
s’ unions will open negotiations with their wage claims in preparation for the annual collective negotiations which will start on October 9, 2009. Negotiations in civil service and trade...
10 September 2009
Germany: SPD and unions to help employees save their company
ement often “employee capital interest act” two social-democrat ministers, Olaf Scholz (Employment and Social Affairs) and Peer Steinbrück (Finance) presented, on September 8, the...
10 September 2009
Netherlands: bankers propose limiting their bonus to one year’s pay
ks (NVB) presented a spontaneous and non-binding code of conduct on September 9 in Amsterdam to limit administrators’ premiums to one year’s pay. This symbolic progress doesn’t...
10 September 2009
Italy: dialog slowly but surely resumes between the Confindustria and the CGIL
o (Lombardy) on Sunday, the leader of Confindustria (employers’ federation) and the leader of the CGIL, the largest Italian union, started patching things up while a major disagreement on...
9 September 2009
Netherlands: Wessanen’s shareholders cancel the CEO’s golden parachute
ders canceled a CEO’s golden handshake amounting to three years’ pay on the grounds of bad results. This model decision still needs the justice’s approval. (Ref. 090830) In the...
9 September 2009
Venezuela: Mitsubishi and General Motors struggle to revive production
rk would resume on September 21 in its Venezuelan factory. The car maker suspended production in late August because of a worker struggle. However, the shutdown was deemed illegal. General Motors...
9 September 2009
Spain: social partners about to reopen talks after the negotiations on the labor market reform failed before the summer
loyment went back up, the government wants to convince employers and unions to find an arrangement to redefine labor market rules and better face the crisis. They will talk about more flexible...
8 September 2009
Germany: managers saw their wages drop by 21% in 2008 following the crisis
he German small shareholders association (Deutsche Schutzvereinigung fur Wertpapierbesitz – DSW), published on September 3, shows that the remuneration of the managers of large businesses...
8 September 2009
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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