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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
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
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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
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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