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After recently adopting a similar approach in other European countries, the mobile app-based home food delivery giant Just Eat is starting to end its practice of paying per completed job. This gig...

10 December 2020

Belgium: initial results from the social elections

On 09 December, Belgium’s Employment Ministry presented provisional results (here in French) from the elections for employee representatives on the Committees for Prevention and Protection...

9 December 2020

EU: hospitality sector social partners call for massive support from EU Institutions and Member States to save the sector and preserve employment

Upon the closure of European Hospitality Sector social dialogue committee meeting held in November, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, and HOTREC, the...

9 December 2020

EU: social partners in the temporary agency work sector call for an extension of existing social innovation schemes for temporary workers

On 01 December a joint declaration was signed by the World Employment Confederation-Europe (employers) and UNI-Europa (trade unions), and concluded a two-year project on social innovation in the...

9 December 2020

EU: telecom sector social partners affirm social dialogue as key to developing ethical and trustworthy AI

On 30 November, the European telecommunications sector’s social partners (ETNO – employers & Uni Europa trade unions) signed a Joint Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, which emphasizes...

8 December 2020

EU: Ceemet and IndustriAll Europe joint position affirms the need for strong and autonomous social partners in managing digital transformation

In their 09 November joint position on "The impact of digitalisation on the world of work in the MET industries", the European social partners in the metal, engineering, and technology-based...

8 December 2020

Axa: charter signed with EWC on global health and well-being programme

On 18 November, Thomas Buberl, chief executive of French insurance group Axa, and Hedi Ben Sedrine, secretary of the Axa European Works Council, signed a charter on the group’s global health and...

4 December 2020

United States: NLRB challenges the dismissal of two Google employees, in the name of the law that protects their right to organise collectively

The US National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against tech giant Google. According to lawyers of the federal agency in San Francisco, the Silicon Valley firm violated labour law when...

4 December 2020

Great Britain: trade unions paying close attention to rising use of AI in companies

On 30 November the TUC trade union confederation announced it was launching a taskforce specifically aimed at protecting workers from the punitive use of new technologies within companies. The...

1 December 2020

France: social partners strike national cross-industry agreement on telework

Talks over a cross-industry framework agreement on telework - or remote working - in France finally reached a conclusion on Thursday 26 November, after a process sped up by the lockdown and the...

27 November 2020

Germany: trade unions are looking into their own digitalization

Germany's first trade union ‘hackathon’, called UnionHack, was held online on 20 and 21 November. UnionHack brought together hackers, IT developers and digital designers for a ‘programming...

25 November 2020

Italy: framework agreement at DHL Express defining salaries and working conditions in subcontracting activities

On 19 November, management at DHL Express Italy together with the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti trade unions signed a national framework agreement that aims to regulate abusive recourse to...

24 November 2020

France: an agreement at Thales on long-term short-time working arrangements

A negotiated company agreement is required in order to deploy long-term partial short-time working arrangements and access a salary subsidy scheme that has been set up to support companies forced...

23 November 2020

Poland: government proposes talks over a “social pact” with social partners

In its efforts to address the economic and social repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Polish government proposed on 20 November to negotiate a package of measures with social partners in...

23 November 2020

Italy: collective agreement renewed in telecommunications sector

On 12 November, social partners in Italy’s telecommunications sector signed a deal to renew their national collective agreement, which applies to some 130,000 workers. The new agreement takes...

20 November 2020

France : an agreement on the transformation of technical engineering and tertiary skills at Renault, which also provides for 2,500 voluntary departures

With more than 50% trade union representation, the signature of the CFE-CGC, CFDT and FO trade unions validates Renault’s agreement on workforce reduction and skills transformation in the...

20 November 2020

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17 September 2026

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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...

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The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...

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