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South Korea: Samsung invites executives to work six days a week
Prompted by worse-than-expected financial results, South Korean electronics giant Samsung is asking executives at its subsidiaries to come and work on Saturdays or Sundays to "overcome" the...
26 April 2024
EU: platform workers directive gets green light from Parliament
At its plenary session on 24 April, the European Parliament approved the draft directive creating a presumption of salaried status for workers on digital platforms, who are deemed falsely...
25 April 2024
United Kingdom: 9% pay rise at Tesco
UK supermarket chain Tesco has significantly increased its hourly pay with effect from 1 April, taking the wage level slightly above the Real Living Wage. The group has also announced an increase...
8 April 2024
EU: hospitality sector social partners sign joint declaration on skills shortages
In a joint text published on 19 March, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture, and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and HOTREC, the hotel sector employer federation, come together to call on the...
22 March 2024
Safran steps up commitment to the professional integration of young people with renewal of European agreement
Safran and the trade union federation IndustriAll Europe have renewed for the second time the European agreement on the professional integration of young people, which has bound the two parties...
21 March 2024
United Kingdom: government unveils measures to boost apprenticeships
On 18 March, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak unveiled measures designed to boost apprenticeships. To this end, the Conservative government has pledged to cover the full cost of training under-21s at...
19 March 2024
EU: platform workers directive gets green light
The Council of the EU has adopted the directive on platform workers, despite the lack of backing from France and Germany, marking the end of a long legislative soap opera. The text, which is yet...
12 March 2024
EU: still hope for the platform worker directive?
On Monday 26 February, the plenary session of the European Parliament was the occasion for a debate between MEPs and Employment and Social Rights Commissioner Nicolas Schmit on the blocking of the...
27 February 2024
Laurence Hulin (La Poste): “We have created expert roles to support disabled employees”
France's postal service operator La Poste, which has 238,000 employees, has pursued an active policy that has made it one of the leading employers of disabled employees in the country, starting...
22 February 2024
United Kingdom: investigation into sexual harassment in the City
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator, has ordered more than 1,000 banks, insurance companies and brokers to detail how many cases of sexual harassment...
20 February 2024
Germany: Bayer details its ‘fundamental’ internal reorganisation programme
Bill Anderson, the new chief executive of German pharmaceutical and agrochemical conglomerate Bayer, has launched the Dynamic Shared Ownership programme in a bid to revitalise the company...
13 February 2024
EU: co-legislators reach breakthrough on platform workers directive
While the refusal of a qualified majority of member states blocked the proposed directive on digital platform workers in December, the Council of the EU and European Parliament finally reached a...
9 February 2024
Société Générale and Deutsche Bank announce redundancy plans
European banks are tightening their belts. Firstly, French banking group Société Générale announced on 5 February the elimination of around 900 head office positions...
6 February 2024
France: engineering, banking and insurance industries seek to reform vocational training system
In a co-edited white paper presented on 25 January 2024, the business organisations in France's engineering, banking and insurance sectors – Fédération Syntec, Fédération Bancaire Française and...
26 January 2024
EU: QWL and developing skills, the keys to keeping older workers in employment
The latest report from Eurofound, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, covers a range of positive initiatives in several EU countries, highlighting...
26 January 2024
EU: Belgian presidency proposes to relax the directive on platform workers in bid to break deadlock
The Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU is working hard to unblock the Platform Workers Directive before the end of the current term in office. While the refusal of France and around 10...
24 January 2024
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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
In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
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France: following the post-Covid boom, large companies scale back on remote working
In the post-pandemic context, large French groups multiplied generous remote working agreements before reversing the trend from 2024 onwards. What is the extent of this phenomenon? mind RH...
29 October 2026
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France: Iliad structures its skills management around AI
The news. On 9 April, Iliad (11,600 employees in France), the parent company of telecoms operator Free, concluded an agreement on jobs and career path management with its representative trade...
21 October 2026
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France: how CDC Habitat aims to better promote the expertise of its employees
The housing division of the French public group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, CDC Habitat (10,800 employees), established new measures on skills in July. They are set out in two agreements...
15 October 2026
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France: La Poste strengthens regional management of jobs and skills
La Poste’s 2026-2028 agreement on the management of jobs, professional pathways and gender diversity in occupations puts the emphasis on supporting mobility and career changes, relying on a...
22 October 2026
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Germany: a negotiation timetable and the prospect of industrial action at Volkswagen
The news. On 23 October, the German carmaker Volkswagen and the trade union IG Metall announced the opening of negotiations on wages, the new cost-cutting programme and job cuts. They will take...
27 October 2026
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Germany: Schaeffler cuts 3,460 jobs and requests temporary wage “solidarity contribution”
The news. On 3 November 2026, German automotive supplier Schaeffler announced a new “earnings improvement programme”, entailing the net reduction of 3,460 jobs in Europe by 2028 (2,660...
6 November 2026