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Argentina/Mexico: a Manpower survey shows gloomy outlook for employment
resees a sharp drop in hiring during the first 2009 quarter in the two countries, which figure among the principal economic motors of Latin America. Only a very small percentage of Argentinean...
29 January 2009
Switzerland: precedent-setting shareholder advisory vote on executive pay
ies (Nestle, UBS and Credit Suisse) have voluntarily agreed to stage a so-called “shareholder advisory vote”, in which the shareholders will accept or reject the companies’...
28 January 2009
Argentina: Renault to maintain the 1.250 jobs of its Cordoba factory
ised to maintain employment until mid2009 in its Argentinean factory. Other car makers reached agreements with their staff to temporarily suspend work and reduce wages to keep jobs in the...
27 January 2009
Spain: the building sector demands the revision of rules on security and the prevention of risks at work
lding sector (property developers, builders, architects and engineers) sent Maravillas Rojo, general secretary in charge of employment for the Ministry of Labor, a report taking stock of legal...
26 January 2009
EU: new measures to prevent fraud on digital tachograph
opean Commission adopted a series of measures to detects and prevent abuses of the tachograph system, used to record the driving time and rest periods of professional drivers. Furthermore, the new...
26 January 2009
Netherlands: mass layoffs at Corus despite working time reduction
of Dutch Unions (FNV), a social plan with 1.000 job cuts is underway at Corus, a large Anglo Dutch metallurgic group. Yet, this company is one of the 170 businesses which were entitled to the...
23 January 2009
EADS: EWC agreement revised based on the new EWC directive
roup and the members of the special negotiating body revised, on October 30, 2008, the agreement for the establishment of the EWC of October 23, 2000. The signatory parties adapt the text to the...
23 January 2009
Portugal: the CGTP demands payment of 191 million euro arrears of lay-off compensation
Portuguese Workers (CGTP) estimates at over 191 million euro unpaid compensation to redundant employees over the last 15 years. It demands the adoption of measures for clearing the courts charged...
20 January 2009
Spain: interview of Francisco Aranda, leader of the Association of Large Temporary Employment Agencies (AGETT)
are getting ready to bargain for a reform of public employment services and will mention, in this respect, the extension of temporary work agencies’ competences (see our dispatch No...
8 January 2009
Spain: a new general secretary for the Workers’ Commission
ge (see our dispatch No. 081011). After a tight vote, the representatives gathered for the 9th Congress elected, on Friday, December 19, Ignacio Fernando Toxo, until then number 2 in the union...
22 December 2008
Slovenia: social program of the new governmental coalition
e end of September 2008, the right-wing parties that formed the previous Government lost made way for a new collation of left-wing parties. Before appointing the new Government, the coalition...
18 December 2008
Air France-KLM: interview with Gehan Colliander, former general secretary of the European works council
European works council, Gehan Colliander, left at the end of 2008. She goes back over the way the council managed to work from the two models of social relations – French and Dutch –...
16 December 2008
France: focus on the reform of the representativeness of union organizations
ocracy on August 20, 2008 completely disrupted the notion of union representativeness by ending the one automatically enjoyed the 5 main trade unions (CGT, CFDT, CFTC, CGT-FO and CFE-CGC –...
27 November 2008
Denmark : increasing implementation of the concept of corporate social responsibility
insurance company Skandia on ten years of CSR shows that social commitments of companies have the collateral effect that employees are proud of their job, find the work environment attractive and...
Germany : a new wage grid for Deutsche Bahn employees
the Deutsche Bahn management (DB) and the two principal unions Transnet and GDBA outlined on November 29, 2007 in Berlin a new wage and job category grid for the 135,000 workers of the company...
4 December 2007
Germany : Siemens has already sanctioned 470 workers implicated in a corruption affair and encourages whistle-blowing among other employees
dal has assumed unexpected proportions. The biggest German technology group acknowledged on November 8, 2007 having discovered in its accounts suspicious transactions amounting to 1.3 billion...
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Veolia Environnement structure son dialogue social au niveau du groupe
L'accord instituant un CE européen prévoit une échelon intermédiaire de dialogue social au niveau des pays.
9 December 2005
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Projet de mise en place d’un cadre optionnel pour les accords collectifs transnationaux.
L’agenda social 2005-2010, adopté par la Commission européenne, le 9 février 2005, prévoyait en effet l’idée de créer un cadre européen optionnel pour la négociation collective transnationale...
9 December 2005
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Adoption du règlement créant un fonds pour aider les salariés victimes de la mondialisation
La proposition de règlement créant le fonds européen d'ajustement à la mondialisation (European Globalisation adjustment Fund - EGF) précise les critères d'éligibilité à une intervention du fonds...
9 December 2005
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Regulation creating European Globalization adjustment fund is adopted
Helping employees, not companies (Article 1): for the Commission, the creation of this fund must make it possible to answer, at the European level, employees’ needs, given the consequences of...
9 December 2005
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Le retour à l’emploi des seniors ne justifie pas de conclure des CDD sans limite
La Cour de justice des Communautés européennes a jugé contraire au droit communautaire une loi allemande qui autorisait, sans restriction, au nom de la lutte contre le chômage, la conclusion de...
12 December 2005