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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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3 October 2006
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...
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...
Hungary : trade union at Hungarian Suzuki Ltd.
to expectations, the first trade union was founded in the Suzuki factory of Esztergom, Hungary. The union’s name is: Independent Carmakers’ Union of Esztergom. (Ref. 0666) In December...
25 January 2006
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...