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Germany: vivid polemic around minimum wage in the postal sector
The branch minimum wage, set up on September 4, 2007 by the Ver.di union and the employers' organization AGV – which is controlled by the Deutsche Post (see our story 070722), was vividly...
10 September 2007
Germany: the Hesse Land wants to forbid social dumping
Starting from 2008, the Hesse Land, led by conservatives, will only place public orders to companies which respect the wages set by secoral collective agreements in the building, industrial...
10 September 2007
Luxembourg: details of the single status bill for blue-collar and white-collar workers
After long negotiations between social partners, the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg presented to the Parliament, on August 3, the bill concerning the single status for blue-collar and...
6 September 2007
Suez: the European Consultative Committee wants to give its opinion on the plan to merge with GDF
The Steering Committee of the European Consultative Committee (ECC) of Suez met on Wednesday September 4 for the first time since the group's merger with GDF was announced. Staff representatives...
6 September 2007
Germany: social partners from the postal sector are getting a minimum wage
Started on August 31, negotiations only lasted a few days (see our story 070713). On September 4, 2007, the services union, Ver.di, and the postal services' employers' organization (AGV) announced...
5 September 2007
Germany: changes at the head of IG Metall trade union
This is a small revolution. Starting from November, the largest German metalworkers union, IG Metall, should be run by two “reformists”. Berthold Huber, 57, currently IG Metall's number 2 and...
3 September 2007
Germany: the Deutsche Post’s competitors created their own employers’ organization
To avoid the minimum wage from 9 to 10 euros wished by the Deutsche Post, the two contender companies, Pin Group AG and TNT AG created a new employers' organization, entitled "community of...
3 September 2007
Italy: a protocol on how to deal with the consequences of UniCredit-Capitalia’s merger on working conditions and employment
On August 3, the future group UniCredit-Capitalia and trade union organizations signed the first "protocol for the management of the integration process" as part of the merger procedure which...
30 August 2007
Porsche EC: a supervisory board without no Volkswagen’s staff representative
Volkswagen's staff representatives are furious : the new European company which now runs the Porsche group's involvement into Porsche AG (100%) and into Volkswagen AG (30.9%), refused to appoint...
30 August 2007
Poland: controversy over the conclusion of the agreement on the minimum wage increase
On August 27, the government and the Solidarnosc union signed an agreement on the increase of minimum wage, starting in 2008, to bring it to 40% of the average income. The agreement also sets the...
29 August 2007
Belgium: trade unions and the Charleroi airport’s management signed a social peace agreement
After several industrial disputes at Charleroi airport and after the threat uttered by Ryanair, main economic operator in the airport, to stop its connections with this destination, unions and the...
29 August 2007
Netherlands: wages were frozen in the postal group TNT
The postal group TNT (former Royal Post TGP), which is going to loose, on January 1, 2008, its monopoly on letters under 50 grams, announced, on August 27, 2007, that the workforce's wages will be...
29 August 2007
Italy: towards a first virtual strike at IBM’s?
This could be the first time an industrial action took place on the web. Indeed, according to "The Register" magazine, IBM's union representatives announced their intention to launch, this coming...
27 August 2007
Germany: the threat of a strike at the Deutsche Bahn is suspended till September 30
After a conciliation procedure, the Deutsche Bahn (DB's) management and the train drivers' union GDL agreed, on August 28, 2007, on the procedure to follow to settle their wage dispute (see our...
27 August 2007
Poland: social partners turned their backs against the social pact
The April 2007 joint declaration on getting talks on the social pact "Economy - Work - Family -Dialogue" (see our story 070312) open again remained a dead letter. Social partners, once again...
27 August 2007
Italy: social partners from the tourism sector agreed to the new national collective agreement
Concerning some 900.000 employees and about 300.000 companies (bars, hotels, restaurants, canteens, traveling agencies and campsites,) the new collective standards introduce more flexible working...
23 August 2007
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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
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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