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Italy: social partners from banking sector renewed their collective agreement for three years
Social partners from the banking sector (Associazione Bancaria Italiana – ABI for employers and the Dircredito, Fabi, Falcri, Fiba, Fisac, Silcea, Sinfub, Ugl, Uilca unions) signed, on December 8...
13 December 2007
Spain: CCOO campaigning to defend trainees
The workers' commissions union launched the campaign "are you working or studying?" to fight against abuses some trainees are subject to in businesses. The goal is to make aware over 100.000 union...
13 December 2007
Germany: chemistry and metal unions present their claims for 2008 tariff negotiations
Putting forward the German chemistry's good health, the IG BCE union said, on December 12, 2007, in Hanover, that it would ask between a 6.5 and 7% wage increase for the approximately 550.000...
12 December 2007
Italy: renewal of the economic part of the national collective agreement in chemicals sector
By anticipating the end of the collective agreement in effect, planned for the end of December 2009, social partners from the chemicals and pharmacy sectors renewed, on December 6, 2007, the...
12 December 2007
Germany : Angela Merkel’s government sticks to minimum wage in postal services
Threats of dismissals. On December 4, Pin, owned by the editor Axel Springer, had announced the need to lay off at least 1000 out of 9000 workers as a consequence of the expected introduction of a...
7 December 2007
Netherlands: liberalization of the postal market postponed after the introduction of a minimum wage in the German post
The liberalization of the postal market, planned for January 1, is postponed. Mentioning the introduction of a minimum wage in the German post (see our article No. 070983), the State Secretary of...
7 December 2007
Germany: IG Metall and BMW sign an agreement establishing wage equality between temp and permanent workers
The Bavarian section of the IG Metall union and the car manufacturer BMW signed, on December 3, 2007, an agreement which grants temp workers the pay negotiated for the branch, and that from the...
6 December 2007
Italy: Thales Alenia Space’s unions worried about the future of R&D sites after alliance with Thales
Thales Alenia Space's Italian unions Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil declared two hours of strike and asked to meet with the government and the Italian aviation and defence group Finmeccanica to talk about the...
6 December 2007
Netherlands : labour inspectorate becomes more specific
The Dutch labour inspectorate announced its intention to concentrate exclusively on sectors where there are many abuses. Are particularly concerned the non-respect of the minimum wage and the...
6 December 2007
International: the Building and Wood Workers’ International developed a new model of international framework agreements
The Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI), an organization which signed several international framework agreements (notably with Ikea, Stabilo, Lafarge and Staedler), developed a new...
5 December 2007
Germany: the Deutsche Bahn offered train drivers an “independent” tariff agreement
Relief in Germany : GDL, the train drivers' union, rule out any strike before the end of January. After a 16-hour marathon negotiation, the Deutsche Bahn's (DB) management and the GDL agreed, on...
5 December 2007
Unilever: European day of action in the Netherlands
A European day of action with Unilever's employees took place, on December 4, under the aegis of the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and of the European...
5 December 2007
Germany : a new wage grid for Deutsche Bahn employees
the Deutsche Bahn management (DB) and the two principal unions Transnet and GDBA outlined on November 29, 2007 in Berlin a new wage and job category grid for the 135,000 workers of the company...
4 December 2007
Danone: world agreement on diversity
The French agribusiness Danone signed, on June 8, 2007, with the International Union of Food workers (IUF) an international agreement to promote diversity. This text both includes principles and...
3 December 2007
Germany: the large coalition finally accepted minimum wage in the postal sector
After months of controversy, on November 29, 2007, the two large ruling parties, the CDU/CSU and the SPD, put an end to their disagreement on the establishment of a minimum wage in the postal...
2 December 2007
Italy: Fit CISL wins appeal against Ryanair’s violation of union rights
The Fit Cisl union is happy about its victory in the conflict which opposed it to Ryanair (see our article No. 070074) : the Velletri Court ordered the low cost airline to "open at once a...
30 November 2007
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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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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