QWL and health

or user of highly-skilled workers, brain hunt is a daily sport, sometimes dangerous for the businesses affected. To limit the risks of loosing in creativity and competitiveness in the long run...

2 July 2009

Siemens: the German multinational launches a real policy on diversity management

ng the Chinese Jill Lee to the post of “chief diversity officer,” Siemens announced the launching of several internal networks in charge of promoting women and young managers of high...

9 April 2009

Corporate Practices: Deutsche Post awarded for its health management system

Already praised several times by economic newspapers, Deutsche Post World Net's corporate health management program received, on December 2, a new award - the "German Corporate Health Award." It...

11 December 2008

Corporate Practices : Boehringer Ingelheim Italia’s project to support return to work after a parental leave

The pilot-project carried out by Boehringer Ingelheim Italia to support the return to work, by means of a welcoming course for employees coming back from a parental leave and of the support of...

22 August 2008

Corporate practices: Daimler’s “production learning system” to fight against the impact of demographic ageing

Introduced in 2004 in the Mannheim factory, the "Produktion Lern System" allowed to quicken and dynamize training courses and processes on an industrial site faced with many experienced workers...

9 July 2008

Corporate practices : the Finnish firm Itela Oy and the employment of immigrant workers

Itela Oy records sales of 1.688 billion €, mainly in postal services (51% of sales), logistics (36%) and the information sector, particularly the electronic processing of documents and invoices...

11 June 2008

Lafarge: safety month in all the sites of the group

The French group Lafarge (90.000 employees), world leader in construction materials, will organize, in June, a "safety month" in 76 countries where the group is present. At every site, "one or...

3 June 2008

Corporate practices : the German group Henkel boosts and internationalizes its corporate diversity management policy

Henkel illustrates the human diversity policy of the group at its site in Vienna. There, the firm has set up its headquarters for Austria and the east European countries. 10.000 people of 33...

2 June 2008

Corporate Practices : R8 “Silver Line” project and “Demographic concept” at Audi

In 2006, 54.44% of Audi's staff was older than 39 and 16.98% over 50. In 2012, 1/3 of employees in the production division will be older than 50. At the same time, retirement age was brought up to...

29 April 2008

Corporate practices: seniors’ employment in the Swedish company Scania

2007 was a record year in terms of sales for the group Scania, one of the jewels of the Swedish industry (84.5 million Swedish crowns, i.e. almost 9 million euro in sales). After Neste Oil (see...

29 April 2008

Corporate pratices : gender equality in the Finnish Neste Oil Company

Neste Oil, an oil company listed on the stock market which made more than €12 billion in sales in 2007, is the first Finnish private company to win the equality prize, awarded every year to a...

26 March 2008

Corporate practices: Alboy’s plan for seniors

The Finnish company Alboy is a subsidiary of the group ASSA Alboy, the world leader in the locksmith's trade. The main factory employs 840 people and makes mechanical locks. It is on this plant...

21 March 2008

Renault : towards a world profit-sharing plan for all employees

During the next meeting of the Renault group's committee bureau (CGR), staff representatives will talk about the progress of the negotiations of the next profit-sharing agreement which should plan...

8 November 2007

EU: Commission to postpone the deadline for introducing directive on workers’ exposure to electromagnetic fields

Following scientific analysis highlighting the negative effects that could have some prescriptions, too strict, of Directive 2004/40/EC regarding the protection against electromagnetic fields and...

30 October 2007

Italy: CGIL started talks on internal divisions after the referendum on the social protocol

The union's management accepted, on October 23, to launch a reflection on the results of the referendum on the social protocol which split the Cgil (see our article No. 070747). Some people...

26 October 2007

Great Britain: the union TUC launched a website to inform Polish workers of their rights

The trade union confederation TUC - along with the Polish union Solidarnosc and the British public information service Citizens Advice- launched, on October 25, a website for Polish people...

25 October 2007

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