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International: American union busters are spreading to Europe
North-American anti-union cabinet councils, also known as union busters, are increasingly bringing their services to Europe, starting with Great Britain. The weekly journal of the Danish union LO...
31 October 2008
Alcatel-Lucent: 17 union organizations ask two former managers to give up their golden parachutes
In a press release published on October 29, 2008, 17 European and American union organizations of the Alcatel-Lucent group condemned the fact that they did not get an answer to the letter they...
29 October 2008
Germany: Ver.di union and the city of Berlin sue the Christian trade union federation
Verdi, the services' union, and the city of Berlin pressed charges against the German Christian trade union federation (CGPW) at the Berlin labor court. Via the launching of a "statutory control...
28 October 2008
Ukraine: new planned labor code soon on a second reading in Parliament
The Ukrainian Parliament should analyze a project for a new labor code on a second reading by the end of the year 2008. Alexander Poels, Director and lawyer at the Peterka & Partners firm in Kiev...
28 October 2008
Poland: two bills for recoding labor law but not on the basis of established law
The Ministry for Labor and Social Policy presented, on October 22, 2008, two bills for the labor code (individual law and collective law). The result of four years of work at the recoding...
27 October 2008
Arcelor-Mittal: Joint Global Health and Safety Committee meets in Kazakhstan
The Joint Global Health and Safety Committee of the Arcelor-Mittal group, established by the global agreement signed on June 3 (see our dispatch No. 080429), met in Kazakhstan during the first...
27 October 2008
Italy: mining social partners renewed their national collective agreement
On September 29, 2008, Assomineraria-Confindustria for employers and Filcem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uilcem-Uil for unions signed the agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement of the...
27 October 2008
PPR: two European charters on the employment of disabled people and seniors
The management of the French company specializing in retail shops (Fnac, Redcats, Redoute) and luxury brands (Balenciaga, Gucci, Yves-Saint-Laurent…), PPR (90.000 employees) and its EWC signed, on...
27 October 2008
BNP Paribas/Fortis: meeting of the EWCs of the two financial groups
After the French banking group BNP Paribas announced the takeover of the Fortis bank, the EWCs of the two groups sent a delegation in Paris, on October 20, for a first contact and to ask the...
27 October 2008
Netherlands: moralization of business in the context of the crisis
Low-profile bonuses awarded at Fortis after the nationalization of the bank on October 4, is causing a scandal in the Netherlands. The existence of these bonuses was revealed on October 21 by the...
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23 October 2008
Germany: Ver.di union smoothes its stance in the wage conflict in the banking sector
Because of the financial crisis, the services' union Ver.di said, on October 17, 2008, that it was ready to lower its 8% wage claim in the banking sector. The union also announced it would...
22 October 2008
Germany: new controversy on managers’ earnings after the financial crisis
Since Josef Ackermann, chairman of the Deutsche Bank's board, announced, on October 16, 2008, that he agreed to give up his bonus this year - a few million Euro - because of the financial crisis...
21 October 2008
SKF: SKF world union committee concentrates on precarious labor and evaluates its development
Created in 1995, the world committee of the Swedish firm, world leader in mechanical bearings, met in early September on SKF's Austrian site in Steyr. Questioned by Planet Labor, Josef...
21 October 2008
HP-EDS: the trade union coordination calls for a European Action Day
The union representatives of the two groups HP and EDS as well as the members of the EWCs of the two firms met again in Brussels, on October 15, to discuss the 9,330 lay offs announced in the wake...
21 October 2008
Italy: major participation in the general strike organized by basic unions
500.000 participants in the national demonstration in Rome and over 2 million strikers throughout Italy. This is the outcome of the first unitary strike, organized on October 17, 2008 by the three...
20 October 2008
Italy: the national union meeting of the Fiat group approved the platform to negotiate the company agreement
Involvement of the trade union in the industrial policy choices, an international framework agreement on union rights, 2.100 euro of payoff bonus: these are the three main claims included in the...
20 October 2008
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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
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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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
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