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Germany: 2010 collective bargaining schedule
are almost over, with a few major sessions left by the end of the year in the rubber industry, paper industry and, most importantly, steel industry in November. Long-awaited, the outcome of...
19 September 2011
Great Britain: ongoing negotiations in London transport to avoid a strike during the Olympics
ground strike by train drivers during next year’s Olympics Games appears to have abated after senior managers claimed to have reached a deal with train drivers’ unions, Aslef and the...
19 September 2011
EU: gas sectoral social dialogue committee wants to contribute to the Europe Energy Policy
in the gas industry met, on September 12th, for a sectoral social dialogue meeting. The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) and the European Mine, Chemical and Energy...
19 September 2011
Spain: Parliament ratifies last Labor Market Reform Act
ament validated a new chapter of the Labor reform. The decree contains a series of emergency measures encouraging youth employment, prolongs the EUR 400 subsidy for jobseekers about to lose their...
15 September 2011
Germany: IG-Metall union starts next Congress with more and younger members
four-year Congress, on October 9-15, 2011, the management of the Metalworkers’ Union Federation is starting to leak the first elements of its evaluation. For the biggest sectoral union in...
15 September 2011
Italy: measures of the budget austerity plan affecting the social sphere
e since the beginning of the Berlusconi administration, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the new budget austerity plan last night (September 14th). The law aims to save over EUR 53M in...
15 September 2011
Great Britain: key unions ballot for strike on November 30th
ld a ‘crisis’ annual conference at its London headquarters on September 12-14. With a vastly reduced number of delegates (600 down to 300) from its 58 union affiliates comprising 6.2m...
15 September 2011
Germany: DBG reveals that, in spite of the lack in skilled manpower, the quality of cooperative education has not improved
he Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) revealed, on September 14th, its “2011 Annual Report on Cooperative Education” (Ausbildungsreport 2011), which evaluates the quality of...
14 September 2011
China: the modalities of the new obligation to subject foreign workers to the Chinese social security still need to be clarified
2010 Social Insurance Act, enforced on July 1st, provides, for the first time ever, for the mandatory subjection of foreign workers to the Chinese social security, when they used to be...
14 September 2011
EU: towards a general principle taking account of the period of temporary employment in the seniority of a worker with a permanent contract
ptember 8th, the Court of Justice of the European union (CJEU) stated that the internal promotion of a worker with a permanent contract should take into consideration seniority years performed as...
14 September 2011
South Africa: three-year agreement in the industry
neering Industry Federation of South Africa (SEIFSA, the steel employers’ organization) and several unions (NUMSA, Solidarity, UASA the Union, CEPPWAWU, MEWUSA and SAEWA) signed a three-year...
14 September 2011
Portugal: unions and employers reject the government’s plan to create a compensation fund to pay for layoffs
d the government’s draft on the creation of a compensation fund to partly pay for workers’ layoffs. The social partners demand new guarantees as to its efficiency. (Ref. 110539)...
13 September 2011
Spain: unions are worried about the new constraints announced by the carmakers
several carmakers announced that they intended to reduce operations in their Spanish sites. They are asking that businesses don’t make employees alone pay for the consequences of the drop in...
13 September 2011
Netherlands: bill on the right to flexiwork and telework
and telework by 2013 is the target of a bill introduced on September 12th in Parliament and which has the support of a majority of MPs. (Ref. 110537) Since 2009, the Christian Democratic Party...
13 September 2011
Turkey: new “National Employment Strategy”
Party (Muslim/conservative, AKP) won, on June 12th, its third consecutive victory since 2002. Numerous reforms were announced, among which the fight against unemployment, one of the key stakes for...
12 September 2011
International: UNI launches global union alliance for Manpower staff
d, on September 6 in Nyon, an international union network for Manpower. In doing so, the union representatives are hoping for better follow-up of the memorandum of understanding signed in 2008...
12 September 2011
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14 October 2025
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Germany: pensioners in work already common practice, study shows
As the German government steps up measures to encourage people to stay in work beyond the legal retirement age, a new study by the Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) – an independent...
6 November 2025
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
The Spanish government has paved the way for the creation of a new status for "persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies, institutions or public or private organisations...
7 November 2025
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France: social conference on labour and pensions to proceed without main employers’ group
The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
5 November 2025
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
After lengthy negotiations with the social partners, in mid-October the Luxembourg government submitted two bills to parliament aimed at reforming the pension system to ensure its long-term...
6 November 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