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Poland: unions and employers develop an “anticrisis action package”
ipartite Committee on March 13, unions and employers’ organizations presented an “anticrisis action package”, jointly developed. This document, divided in 13 points, proposes...
17 March 2009
Belgium: Council of Ministers approves “eco-checks”
l of Ministers approved a draft royal decree introducing “eco-checks”. This system was included in the 2009-10 interprofessional agreement and in the recovery program. It is aimed at...
16 March 2009
Germany: unions propose a “co-managed” foundation to control part of the capital of equipment manufacturer Schaeffler/Continental
trade union confederation (DGB) want “to place Schaeffler in the hands of the workers” and propose, in the spirit of the agreement of February 23 between the Schaeffler management and...
16 March 2009
Germany: Transnet union calls on Deutsche Bahn employees to watch out for “mediator” lawyers
dal of the control of data on the Deutsche Bahn’s employees (see our dispatch No. 090110) is getting increasingly difficult. Transnet, the largest rail union, is warning its employees...
16 March 2009
EU: Parliament amends the statute of the European private company to better protect the involvement of workers
ean Parliament adopted, on a first reading, the report of the German MEP Klaus Heiner Lehne (EPP) on the statute of the European private company (SPE). This new status was created to encourage...
16 March 2009
General Motors: European governments commit to cooperate to save the European branch of the American manufacturer
tween the American carmaker’s European staff representatives, who presented their conditions for the creation of an independent subsidiary for the group’s European activities, the...
16 March 2009
France: economic difficulties must be assessed compared with the group’s international activity
ancies is strongly sought during the downturn, which is affecting French businesses. At a time when large international groups are announcing waves of lay offs, the French Supreme Court ( Cour de...
16 March 2009
Spain: analysis of emergency social measures to stop unemployment
ic crisis, Spain is suffering a dramatic and sharp increase in unemployment. This has led the Government to urgently approve a series of social measures (see our dispatch No. 090239). The measures...
16 March 2009
Belgium: public social action centers condemn exclusion policy within employment services
obseekers turn to social services because they are not entitled to unemployment benefits. This is what the Walloon Federation of Public Social Action Centers (CPAS) observed. On October 31, 2008...
13 March 2009
Great Britain: construction firms use the worker black list, causing an outrage
ses drew up a black list of unwanted workers, revealed a study carried out by the Information Commission – an independent organization in charge of the protection of personal data. Unions...
13 March 2009
Tesa: agreement on employee representation in the future European company
rmany of the European company status (SE), Tesa AG – one of the world leaders in adhesive tapes – is about to complete its transformation into an SE. In late 2008, the management of...
13 March 2009
Italy: unions mobilize against the closure of an Indesit plant
electrical appliances maker, has confirmed its decision to close its dishwasher plant with 600 workers at None (near Turin) and transfer production to Poland. But unions are mobilized against this...
13 March 2009
General Motors: management to explain its intentions concerning its Brussels subsidiary
an Commission, the managers of General Motors, GM US and GM Europe are going to meet, today Friday March 13, with the EU Ministers for Industry concerned by the situation of the carmaker...
13 March 2009
Belgium: government announces three measures to combat age discrimination
ter for Employment and Equality, Joëlle Micquet, announced three new measures to increase the fight against age discrimination. This intervention follows the publication of an analysis on job...
12 March 2009
Germany: wage agreement for Lufthansa’s cabin crew
ust avoided an unlimited strike of its cabin crew. After tough negotiations (see our dispatch No. 090072), the German airline’s management, the Ufo cabin crew union (Unabhängige...
11 March 2009
Italy: first law on “guaranteed minimum income” in the Latium region
s and atypical workers who aren’t entitled to partial unemployment compensation or to any other form of social dampers, the Regional Council of the Latium (Rome area) approved the Guaranteed...
11 March 2009
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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