QWL and health

Lack of skilled workers. 170 kilometers south west of Moscow, at the gates of the city of Kaluga, is a 400-ha production site, Volkswagen Group Rus, Volkswagen’s Russian subsidiary. Created in...

23 August 2012

Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower

Chain restructurings. “Up to 2006, we were mostly concerned with one thing: how can we cut jobs?” explains Veit Echterhoff, in charge of training policy at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG. And for...

25 June 2012

Germany: federal bill on anonymous applications shows extended ‘workforce pool’ with no additional costs

Christina Lüders, Director of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency, said the study’s outcome is definitely in favor of anonymous applications. The test shows that, with similar qualifications...

18 April 2012

Germany: recruitment strategies increasingly rely on employee recommendations

Deutsche Bahn is preparing a general recruitment incentive program. Deutsche Bahn is currently working on a new general recruitment incentive program favoring the recruitment of people...

22 February 2012

Henkel: the German group banks on a work culture focused on performance, not the time spent in the office

An old tradition. The group, which employs nearly 48,000 people in 125 countries, has been committed to families since… 1940! In the middle of the war, the company created its first corporate...

17 February 2012

Germany: Deutsche Bahn managers will have to take better account of employee and customer satisfaction

Unhappy customers and employees. “Profitable growth can only be obtained with enthusiastic workers and satisfied customers. This is why quality and the satisfaction of customers and employees...

1 February 2012

Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers

Tolerance: a duty and a need. With 12,000 employees from 71 different countries and 56 million passengers from all over the world, Fraport, which runs Frankfurt Airport, the third busiest airport...

23 January 2012

Great Britain: businesses commit to anonymous CVs

Pact. Testo, Barclays, Coca-Cola, Marks&Spencer, Nestlé… over 100 of Britain’s biggest employers in the banking, legal, food or energy industries, employing more than two million people in...

17 January 2012

Germany: Volkswagen bans professional emails outside of working hours

No work emails between 6:150pm and 7am. A few years ago, BlackBerries – portable devices to read and write emails – were, like company cars, a symbol of social status between managers. Now, they...

2 January 2012

Corporate practices: Thales helps its employees change trades with the “Passerelles” approach

Employment expertise has been a part of Thales’ social practices for several years now. In 2006, the social partners adopted an agreement on the anticipation of employment changes, professional...

15 December 2011

Corporate practices: secrets behind Scania’s ‘perfect’ age pyramid

Currently, Scania Group is one of the leaders in the manufacture of heavyweights, buses, vans, as well as industrial and marine engines. It also offers and sells a wide range of maintenance...

12 December 2011

Corporate practices: how the Rudus construction materials manufacturer managed to significantly cut the number of industrial accidents on its production sites

uction company which employs about 1,300 people. It produces concrete, coated macadam and asphalt and operates in Finland, the Baltic countries and Russia. Bought, in 1999, by Irish multinational...

21 November 2011

Netherlands: Philips wants to spread efficiency premiums

lips, wants to bring variable pay from 7 up to 12% of annual earnings for the group’s 14,000 employees in the Netherlands. Unions and the works council are currently discussing the new...

21 November 2011

Romania: private managers for national businesses

Until now, the authorities appointed the managers of national businesses. Because of disastrous results in most of these companies - in 2010, the 35 biggest State firms made €10 billion in...

17 November 2011

International: employees as demotivated as when the crisis broke out

“Employee satisfaction worldwide, or engagement, continues to be sluggish and remains at the lowest level since 2008” according to Aon Hewitt, the HR consulting businesses of Aon Corporation...

15 November 2011

Skanska: the Swedish construction firm organized a Safety Week on all its sites in the world on October 17-23

he company organized, for its 52,000 employees worldwide, a Skanska Safety Week. This year, it was called “empowerment” and aimed to give employees a sense of responsibility to all the...

1 November 2011

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13 October 2026

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12 October 2026

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23 October 2026

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The existence of an option to implement a global wage freeze until 2030 has been confirmed by the management of the German group Volkswagen, which nevertheless provides no details and refers to...

20 October 2026

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