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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...
Italy : renewal of the national collective agreement in the insurance sector
partners of the insurance sector ( the FISAC/CGIL, FIBA/CISL, FNA, SNFIA, UILCA unions and the employers organisation ANIA) signed an agreement renewing their national collective agreement...
10 October 2007
Malta: the difference between part-time employees regarding how long they work for the recognition of leaves and bonuses abolished
regulation grants employees who work less than twenty hours a week the same pro-rata rights as those granted to employees working full-time. (Ref. 070693)The changes introduced in July into...
27 August 2007
EU: the business company policy of the European Metalworkers’ Federation
xpected to be adopted at its congress on June 6-7, 2007, the European metalworkers Federation (EMF) outlines its strategy of its policy regarding business firms: transnational negotiations...
4 June 2007
Poland: RH practices grow rich under the effect of labour market tensions
lation of the collective labour law, trade unions’ role, recruitment process, these topics are more and more important to Polish and French HR managers in Poland, and also to trade unionists...
5 February 2007
Netherlands: an innovative agreement on disability at work at KLM
ine company KLM (group Air France-KLM), any employee invalid by less than 35 % will not be laid off before 2010. The agreement improves the situation of this category of personnel compared to the...
12 January 2007
Adjustment funds for globalisation on the agenda for the next parliamentary session
cial Affairs Commission is going to debate the draft regulations for creating an European Globalisation adjustment Fund. The governmental experts of the Council of Ministers have already met on...
28 August 2006
The European Commission organizes a new meeting of the “forum on restructurings”
2005, the “Forum on restructurings”, the European Commission decided to organize a series of sessions dedicated to the specific aspects of restructurings. The session which will take...
10 July 2006
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The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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
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EU: Commission launches consultation with social partners on quality jobs
On 4 December, the European Commission launched the first phase of consultation with social partners with a view to a European directive on jobs, which is scheduled for the end of 2026. It could...
4 December 2025
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EDF bans alcohol on all its sites
From 1 January 2026, French energy giant EDF (180,000 employees) will prohibit alcohol consumption at all internal and external corporate events, from social gatherings to seminars. The policy...
26 November 2025
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United Kingdom: government scraps plan to introduce ‘day one’ protection against unfair dismissal
The UK government announced on 27 November, in a statement, that it would not be introducing the right to challenge unfair dismissal (without cause) from the first day of employment in its...
3 December 2025
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Poland: bill adopted to amend definition of psychological harassment
On 27 November, the Polish cabinet adopted a draft amendment to the labour code aimed at simplifying the definition of psychological harassment at work, or “mobbing” (Article 94 3)...
4 December 2025
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EU: MEPs demand directive on algorithmic management
Members of the European Parliament have called for a directive on algorithmic management. Such legislation would introduce obligations for companies to inform employees, assess health and safety...
17 December 2025
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Austria: European rules on wage transparency expected to cause a cultural shock
With the gender pay gap in Austria being the second largest in the European Union (18.3%), the Austrian government has promised to introduce a bill next spring to transpose the European directive...
27 November 2025