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Spain: equality plan for Banesto
After the Santander bank (see our article No. 070841), the Banesto bank is now signing a gender equality plan to enforce the law on effective gender equality. It also aims at putting equal...
2 January 2008
Germany: Opel GmbH to pay retrospectively for extra company pension to 20.000 pensioners
After two rulings at the federal Labour Court rendered in 1993 and 2002 by virtue of the principle of equal treatment among workers, Opel negotiated with its EWC a retroactive payment of an...
2 January 2008
Italy: social partners from the electric sector renew their collective agreement’s economic part
The agreement to renew the national collective agreement was signed on December 18, 2007. Unions are satisfied with this text which grants an average 116 euros increase for the 2008-2009 period...
2 January 2008
Sweden: reactions to the Court of Justice’s decision in the Laval Partners case
The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities concerning the case P Baltic Bygg and its parent company, the Latvian group Laval Partneri (see our article No. 071034), whose...
21 December 2007
Spain : the agreement which will supervise sectorial company negotiations in 2008 was signed
Social partners decided, for 2008, to renew the interprofessional agreement on collective negotiation signed in 2007, with a few novelties in terms of work-life balance, and harassment as part of...
20 December 2007
Germany: GDL breaks negotiations with the Deutsche Bahn and starts a new strike
The train drivers' union GDL unexpectedly broke the negotiations started on December 4 with the DB, which had enabled to stop strike movements in Germany. The union announced that train drivers...
20 December 2007
Sanofi-Aventis : final stretch to the creation of a European negotiation body
The European Mine, Chemistry and Energy Federation (EMCEF) is consulting its members about the draft agreement creating a European dialogue body within the pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis...
19 December 2007
Italy : renewal of the economic part of the collective agreement in the energy and oil sector
The unions greeted the conclusion of this agreement which occurs in a context of tense relations between the employers’ union Confindustria and other employers’ unions, and amid renegotiation of...
19 December 2007
Germany: controversy on the introduction of minimum wage for temporary work
A few days after the Bundestag adopted, on December 14, 2007, a particularly disputed minimum wage in the postal sector (see our articles No. 071031 and 071004), a new conflict burst out among the...
19 December 2007
CPI: agreement on the creation of a EWC
The French printing group CPI (4.000 employees) signed an agreement establishing a European Works' Council, on December 13, 2007, followed by the council's first meeting. The goal is to introduce...
19 December 2007
Italy: report on the evolution of industrial relations in 2007
According to the last report from the research institute Censis on the country's social situation, industrial relations in 2006 were marked by a considerable decrease in the number of collective...
17 December 2007
Denmark: DSB signed an agreement to compensate asbestos victims
Employees from the DSB, the Danish national railroad company, who have developed or will develop a pathology after being exposed to asbestos for work, will get from their employer one and a half...
17 December 2007
Hungary: 2008 tripartite wage negotiations blocked
During the last tripartite negotiations (employers,unions,government), social partners could not reach an agreement concerning wage increases for 2008. Unions stand their ground, refusing to go...
17 December 2007
Italy: partial but not definite agreement to renew metalworkers’ national collective agreement
Whereas strikes keep going throughout Italy, to support negotiations on the renewal of metalworkers' national collective agreement (see our articles No. 070946, 070906 and 070820), which expired...
17 December 2007
Germany: the jobs of Pin Group’s 9.000 employees threatened
A few days after the Bundestag gave the green lights, on December 14, 2007, to the introduction, on January 1, 2008 of a minimum wage in the postal service, negotiated by the Verdi union and an...
14 December 2007
Germany: IBM introduces a new “global” pay system in exchange for a disputed wage agreement
At the end of September 2007, the Verdi union got a 4% wage increase for IBM Germany's employees. In exchange, the services sector union stopped opposing the introduction of a new pay system based...
14 December 2007
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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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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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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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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