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Spain: Supreme Court decision makes mass layoffs more flexible
h 18, 2009, aimed at “harmonizing case laws,” the social chamber of the supreme court set the principle according to which the opening of a procedure for mass layoffs (employment...
15 September 2009
General Motors: Magna’s takeover of Opel creates fear
d by the German government for the recovery of the German carmaker Opel bring fears of a restructuring program affecting, at first, employees in Belgium, Spain and Hungary. On Monday, September...
15 September 2009
Netherlands: for the first time, unions are going to discuss the wages of ING’s managers
ING, the largest bank in the Netherlands, agreed they would talk, in October, about huge wages within the bank, as part of the extension to December 31, 2011 of the current collective agreement...
15 September 2009
Mexico: university study shows that young skilled Mexican workers are fleeing
rs is blaming employers for not taking advantage of the full potential of the country’s workforce. Their study shows that young Mexicans in proportions which have never been seen before...
15 September 2009
EU: tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote for the investiture of Jose Manuel Barroso, who is trying to win as many votes as possible over
should invest Jose Manuel Barroso as Chairman of the European Commission. Last week, the applicant to succeed himself was heard by political groups to present his program and try to win over MEPs...
15 September 2009
Germany: IG-Metall wants to reform its structures and focus on recruiting members
ll, the largest trade union in Germany (2.3 million members), announced that his organization was going to change its structure and improve the resources granted to local offices. They will have...
15 September 2009
Germany: substantial conflict could burst between Verdi union and the Deutsche Post
tember 14, 2009 in Berlin, Andrea Kocsis, VP of the Verdi services union, accused the Deutsche Post AG of using the economic crisis as an excuse to attack employees’wages and working...
14 September 2009
Italy: beginning of negotiations between the social partners on employee profit-sharing
distribution of profit to workers” – demanded by Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi to reach a ‘joint opinion’ with the social partners within two months – has been...
14 September 2009
Austria: Austrian Railways (ÖBB) were illegally gathering information on their employees’ health
l of absenteeism, the ÖBB’s personnel service pressured employees to know why they were on sick leave. Classified in the employees’ personal files, such data wasn’t kept...
14 September 2009
Poland: social conflict around the privatization of the ENEA energy group
ing, to privatize the ENEA energy group, relations between the government and the group’s unions have been particularly tense. Unions denounce the conditions of the privatization, in favor...
14 September 2009
Great Britain: government toughens legislation on the recruitment of foreign workers
announced, on September 7, that employers will have to advertise jobs in jobcenters for a month (instead of two weeks) prior to recruiting workers from outside Europe. The goal is to limit the...
14 September 2009
Germany: Supreme Court increases liability for compliance officers
e first time, the Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) condemned a compliance officer to pay a fine for failure to prevent an infringement made by employees. This decision should put more...
14 September 2009
Italy: towards a separate agreement for the renewal of the metalworking CCN
f the metalworking national collective agreement resumed on September 10, the Federmeccanica employers’ federation announced that it would only base the negotiations on the joint platform...
14 September 2009
Spain: unions of the Santander bank propose closing agencies on Saturday to save money
unions of the Santander bank opened talks which should lead to closing the 3,000 national agencies on Saturday, therefore allowing the group to save 17 million euro. Unions proposed this solution...
11 September 2009
Italy: tense start for Fiat with short-time working, Mobilita procedures and overtime
‘s unions are mobilized against Mobilita procedures, short-time working and “unilateral posting” of workers. On September 9, the mobilization of workers at Case New Holland in...
11 September 2009
EU: ECJ subtly defines when the decision of the parent company sets off the obligation to consult workers
rday, September 10, the European Court of Justice introduces details, sometimes subtle, on when the obligation to consult workers in the event of mass layoffs decided by the parent company...
10 September 2009
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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
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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Germany: pensioners in work already common practice, study shows
As the German government steps up measures to encourage people to stay in work beyond the legal retirement age, a new study by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) – an independent...
6 November 2025
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
The Spanish government has paved the way for the creation of a new status for "persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies, institutions or public or private organisations...
7 November 2025
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France: social conference on labour and pensions to proceed without main employers’ group
The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
5 November 2025
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
After lengthy negotiations with the social partners, in mid-October the Luxembourg government submitted two bills to parliament aimed at reforming the pension system to ensure its long-term...
6 November 2025
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Candice Guillot (Talan): “Our recruiters save just over 80 hours per year on administrative tasks thanks to AI”
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025