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Club Med: agreement on fundamental rights and transnational mobility to be signed in September
g on July 23, the IUF and EFFAT union organizations officially entered the agreement on fundamental right and transnational mobility in the Europe-Africa zone. The signature of this agreement...
28 July 2009
Italy: negotiations for the renewal of the national collective agreement broken off in the food sector
errupted negotiating for the renewal of the national collective agreement of the food sector, the only sector where the three unions, member of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil, presented a single platform...
28 July 2009
Germany: trainers and apprenticeship supervisors will have to provide evidence of registered training as of August 1, 2009
irective on trainers’ training” (Ausbilder-Eignungsverordnung / AEVO), which was suspended in 2003, will be applicable again. All trainers will have to provide evidence of certified...
28 July 2009
Sweden: new collective agreement makes call centers more ethical
n trade union and Almega employers’ federation signed a collective agreement. Launched in 2008, the negotiations were aimed at cleaning up the call-center sector. The agreement should put an...
28 July 2009
EU: the new regulation to coordinate social security systems to be applied soon
uncil of Ministers approved the text applying Regulation No. 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems. This permanent adoption allows the new rules which govern the rights to social...
27 July 2009
Brazil: “wage campaign” for metalworkers and banking employees launched
s opened annual wage negotiations. On July 23, they celebrated the beginning of the “wage campaign” expressing their claims on a real wage increase assorted with working time...
27 July 2009
Italy: Telecom Italia signs agreement with unions avoiding layoffs via solidarity contracts
Telecom Italia signed with the sector’s unions and thanks to the Minister of Labor who acted as a mediator, an agreement which avoids the 470 layoffs announced in May, via the adoption of...
27 July 2009
Germany: IG-Metall demands employee participation in the capital of the future Volkswagen-Porsche
ve in and Volkswagen gradually took over auto activities, Berthold Huber, leader of the IG-Metall, and the two formerly rival chairmen of Porsche and VW’s works councils displayed unity. At...
27 July 2009
Hungary: two exceptions to the Labor Code for temporary work declared unconstitutional
ne 2009, the Constitutional Court of Hungary declared that the provision of the Labor Code which provides that the protection against the termination of the labor contract in case of sick leave...
24 July 2009
Latin America: businesses have growing difficulties recruiting skilled employees
top of the list drawn by Manpower of countries with a shortage of skilled workforce. In spite of the increase in the number of jobseekers, employers still have vacancies because they can’t...
24 July 2009
Morocco: first bill on unemployment benefits in the history of Morocco isn’t convincing
yment for 6 months? This is unheard of in Morocco. However, unions remain skeptical about its scope and true application. Indeed, in most cases, employees in the private sectors aren’t even...
23 July 2009
Germany: around 425,000 scientists and engineers could be needed by 2020
tute (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft), close to employers, and the Gesamtmetall steel employers’ federation published, on July 20, 2009, a study which shows that, in spite of the current...
23 July 2009
Netherlands: legal uncertainties on the possibility to force an employee to retire at 65
cation of the rules on layoffs at 65, age when the employer can force an employee to retire. Seniors who want to keep working went to court to object to this possibility for employers. Since some...
22 July 2009
Great Britain: Unite to consult members to launch a strike in construction
key trade union, announced that it was going to consult its 20,000 members in engineering and construction to launch a national strike after the summer. This is an answer to employers’...
22 July 2009
Austria: government wants to transfer 1,200 civil servants from the post and telecom to the police
Heinisch-Hosek, Austrian Minister of Public Service and Women, proposed transferring some of the civil servants from the Österreischiche Post and Telekom Austria to the police. The idea is...
22 July 2009
Italy: Cisl and Unitary Executives’ Confederation (CUQ) sign associative pact
ederation which, with its member organizations – Anqui, Confederquadri, Federquadri, Italquadri and Sinfub -gathers almost 100,000 “white-collars” in the trade industry...
21 July 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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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 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
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AI-driven job cuts on the rise in tech sector
As leading tech companies ramp up investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and roll out transformation plans to boost its development, layoffs across the sector are increasing. But are the job...
7 October 2025