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Slovakia: the most important changes proposed to the Labour Code
e-europnews, June 28th, 2007, n° 070570 - www.eeuropnews.com
26 June 2007
Spain: the decrease in wages’ weight in the GDP is causing much gnashing of unions’ teeth
In 10 years, it went from 49 to 46.6% (as opposed to 64% in average in the Euro zone). Despite the official continuation of the wage moderation policy, unions are getting ready to enter a new...
26 June 2007
Austria: companies’ good results and the fall of unemployment made labour costs and wage levels rise again.
According to the Austrian statistics office (Statistik Austria), labour cost in Austria increased faster than expected in the first trimester of 2007, in a context of important unemployment...
25 June 2007
Italy: strong railroaders’ mobilization for the renewal of the collective contract and against a privatization “the Italian way” of railroads
8 railroaders out of 10 took part in the national strike on June 22 in favour of a collective contract enforceable to all of the sector's companies, in order to fight against social dumping, and...
25 June 2007
Spain: banking managers and unions signed a new sectorial agreement.
The Spanish banking association (AEB), the sector's employers' representation body, negotiated with majority unions Comfia-CCOO (49.52%) FES-UGT (31.06%) and FESBIAC-CGT (12.23%), the 21st...
25 June 2007
Great Britain: towards the first strike in eleven years at Royal Mail
After several weeks' negotiations, postal workers announced that they intended to go on a 24-hour strike this week, which is a first at Royal Mail for eleven years. The conflict is about wage...
25 June 2007
Germany: the federal Labour Court confirmed that “solidarity strikes” are legal
In a ruling published on June 19, 2007, the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht - BAG) confirmed that solidarity strikes led in a sector indirectly concerned by collective conventions...
22 June 2007
Thomson: free share handing out to the group’s employees
The French group Thomson decided, on June 21, 2007, to carry out a free distribution of shares in favour of all of Thomson's employees on June 1, 2007, as well as employees from its involved...
22 June 2007
Germany: train drivers from the Deutsche Bahn could launch a strike at the beginning of July
The beginning of the summer period is about to be stormy in Germany. Indeed, the German train drivers' trade union (GDL) announced on June 19, that it would launch a strike at the beginning of...
20 June 2007
Germany: the large coalition adopted a compromise on the creation of branch minimum wages
After a new summit meeting in the night between June 18 and June 19 in Berlin, the two large parties in power - the social-democrats (SPD) and the Christian Unions (CDU/CSU) - could not agree on...
20 June 2007
Germany: open-end strike started in the building sector in Lower Saxony and Schleswig Holstein
Agreement too high. Arguing the difficulties of the small and medium-size firms in their regions, the two regional associations (members of the ZDB federation) esteem that the federal wage rate...
18 June 2007
Nokia Siemens Network: management agrees to negotiate the creation of a European Works Council (EWC)
e-europnews June 19, 2007, n°070535 – www.eeuropnews.com
18 June 2007
EADS: interview with Frédéric Agenet, industrial relations’ manager
The EADS group signed, last April, with its European work's council, an intention letter with a view to extending the council's to representatives of employees working in countries located outside...
18 June 2007
Atos Origin: the negotiation of the agreement on the European works council (EWC) completed
Meetings. The EWC, composed of at most 35 members, will meet twice a year. Meetings are programmed for at least one day with a preparatory meeting the day before the plenary meeting. The latter is...
18 June 2007
Bulgaria: signing of a national cooperation agreement in the chemistry sector
e-europnews June 19, 2007, n°070537 – www.eeuropnews.com
15 June 2007
Italy: unions are worried about the future of the Italian shipbuilding industry after Fincantieri’s capital opens to the private sector
There is a lot of concern within the Italian shipbuilding sector after Fincantieri, the last large public industry in Italy, decided to open its capital: strikes follow strikes in the group's...
15 June 2007
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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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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