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Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization’s CSR and SRI actions
representative for Comfia-CCOO, the union federations of financial and administrative services of the Workers’ Commissions union, is telling Planet Labor about corporate social...
Sweden: new provisions on “emergency overtime” in the energy industry
wage increase, the new agreement signed on March 24 between the SEF union (Svenska Elektrikerförbundet) and the EFA energy employers’ organization (Energiföretagens...
10 April 2012
Germany: unions’ globalization strategy helped by Bob King, leader of the American auto workers’ union, joining Opel’s board
of the American United Auto Workers (UAW), will become a full member of the supervisory board of Adam Opel GmbH. Sources tell Planet Labor that both General Motors and the German IG-Metall union...
2 April 2012
Belgium: parental leave goes from 3 up to 4 months
Ministers adopted a draft royal decree planning to add one month to parental leave, in keeping with Directive 2010/18 which provides for four months’ parental leave. The draft also...
26 March 2012
Germany: regions are trying to attract skilled workers
the growing importance of the shortage of skilled workers in Germany. These past few years, over 700 networks gathering different roleplayers (chambers of commerce, employment agencies, towns...
19 March 2012
Netherlands: soaring precariousness on the labor market
insurance released figures, saying that they were “shocking,” showing that no more than 2,000 people signed a permanent contract in 2011, as opposed to 83,000 in 2010. Fixed-term...
7 March 2012
Germany: IZA institute says the removal of systems facilitating early retirement at 55 greatly helped increase seniors’ employment rate
r first report on “A Labor World Adapted to Age,” Ursula von der Leyen, German Employment Minister, said that Germany made “remarkable progress” in terms of seniors’...
1 March 2012
Spain : commentary of the latest labor reform
ment, with the support of the Spanish people, the Mariano Rajoy administration promised to go through with the labor market reform even if it committed to keep on exchanging with the social...
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21 February 2012
EU: changes introduced by the draft regulation on the protection of private data in labor relations
Commission adopted a draft regulation on the protection of data which deeply reviews existing rules. Ariane Mole, Partner at the Bird & Bird law firm, has agreed to tell Planet Labor about the...
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20 February 2012
France: focus on recent court rulings on the working time of managers following the Supreme Court decree invalidating the annual working days system in the chemical sector
preme Court rendered a decree where it states that the annual working days system introduced in the chemical industry does not provide enough guarantees regarding the right to time off. Thus...
7 February 2012
Alstom: European agreement on social commitments during the transition period of the joint venture between Alstom and Shanghai Electric
ederation (EMF) and Alstom management have already signed European agreements concerning social guarantees within the framework of an operation likely to have an impact on employment. In a new...
27 January 2012
Great Britain: government will transpose parental leave European directive in 2013 instead of 2012
, which must be transposed by March 8, 2012, will only be implemented in March 2013 in the UK. The reason given is that it will be included in a new, more flexible policy on parental leave...
24 January 2012
Italy: the three key union confederations present a unitary platform to reform the labor market
17, the leaders of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil – Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonanni and Luigi Angeletti – kicked off their unitary platform for the labor market reform. In addition to...
18 January 2012
Portugal: new social agreement bans controversial working time increase while adding flexibility
t signed by the Portuguese government, employers and the UGT ends a controversy on the increase of working time with no financial compensation in the private sector. This plan of adding 30 minutes...
18 January 2012
United States: the electronic industry is increasingly concerned with the corporate social responsibility of its suppliers
and environmental responsibility within its suppliers is making a clear break. Published on Friday, the document, which contains a quasi-thorough list of these businesses, reports that the number...
Netherlands: disagreements within the Federation of Christian Unions
eration in the Netherlands, the CNV, is going to split, for the same reasons the Federation of Netherlands Unions (FNV) did. The pension reform, once again in question, is driving the ACP union...
16 January 2012
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France: Yves Rocher convicted of breach of duty of vigilance for infringement of freedom of association
The specialised chamber of the Paris Judicial Court convicted Yves Rocher on 12 March for breaching its duty of vigilance. The group was sued by Turkish employees dismissed in 2018 by a subsidiary...
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12 March 2026
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Spain: business support package to tackle the economic impact of the Middle East conflict
The Spanish government approved a series of measures on 20 March to support companies facing rising energy prices. In return, these businesses are prohibited from making redundancies for economic...
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EU: Council adopts position on simplifying AI rules
The Council of the EU approved its position on 13 March regarding the “omnibus regulation” proposal, published last November by the Commission to simplify the AI Act. Confirming the...
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20 March 2026
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Germany: a corporate group supports local political engagement via its “Democracy Charter”
Large corporations in the Hesse region, surrounding Frankfurt, are defending local democracy by enabling employees to volunteer in local public life through an initiative dubbed the "Democracy...
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United States: Coca-Cola subsidiary sued by the administration over women-only event
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced on 18 February that it is launching federal proceedings against Coca-Cola Beverages Northeast for “sex-based...
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6 March 2026