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United States: automobile union UAW strikes multi-year wage agreement with Ford
Negotiators for the UAW (United Automobile Workers) and industry giant Ford have reached a deal for a new four-year salary agreement, four days after a deal was struck by the union and General...
4 November 2019
Germany: Bundestag approves law modernizing occupational training
On 24 October Germany’s Bundestag approved the law on modernizing occupational training (Berufsbildungsmodernisierungsgesetz-BBiG). The final text includes several amendments from the draft that...
31 October 2019
Italy: question marks over the compatibility of smart working with the CJEU ruling on the requirement to measure working time
Italy’s legislature has not yet moved on the ruling by the court of Justice of the European Union from 14 May 2019 (c.f. article No. 11127) that demands the EU Member States to require employers...
31 October 2019
Great Britain: Standard Life Aberdeen insurance offers 9 months paid parental leave
Starting January 2020, all new parents working for Standard Life Aberdeen (regardless of gender and including those having recourse to adoption and/or surrogacy) will, from the moment of hire...
31 October 2019
Italy : Milanese social partners join forces to foster greater worker participation in company decision-making
Assolombarda, the Milanese branch of the employers’ body Confindustria, together with the local sections of the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil unions have signed a territorial agreement that seeks to foster...
30 October 2019
ECHR sets out the circumstances under which covert video-surveillance of employees is justified
In a decision handed down on 17 October 2019 the European Court on Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that covert video-surveillance of staff, which in this case subsequently resulted in employee...
29 October 2019
EU : the ETUC campaigns for full implementation of the EU Directive on Work-Life Balance
In a press statement published on 29 September 2019, the European Trade Union Confederation underlined that in order to fully transpose EU Directive 1158/2019 on work-life balance for parents and...
29 October 2019
Germany : Trumpf launches a training project where digital ‘multipliers’ support SMEs to meet the challenges of digital transformation
With funding from the Baden-Wurtemberg Economic Ministry, and created by German company Trumpf, one of the global leaders in industrial laser manufacturing, F4DIA (Fit for digitized world of work)...
24 October 2019
Brazil : parliament definitively adopts pension reform’s main text
After eight months of political negotiations in both houses of parliament, and during the night of 22/23 October, Brazil’s Senate house adopted the basic text for the government’s pension reform...
24 October 2019
EU judges dilute the role of social partners in European social policy making
Is the European Commission required to implement an agreement concluded between European social partners as part of the consultation procedure intended by the Treaty? In a ruling handed down on 24...
24 October 2019
Bolloré Group: agreement signed defining arrangements for workers representative involvement after the group changes to Societas Europaea status
In May 2019, Bolloré, a French transportation, communications and logistics conglomerate announced its intention to shift its headquarters and transform its status to a Societas Europaea (SE), a...
23 October 2019
Brazil : the economy, pensions, and jobs – Bolsonaro’s disappointing first year report
A year ago on 28 October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election. Upon taking up the reins of power in January 2019 the president named a government consistent with a clearly...
23 October 2019
The European Trade Union confederation (ETUC) and the central US AFL-CIO trade union criticize the double standards of European corporates operating within the Southern States of the US
In a joint statement (here) on 21 October, the ETUC and the AFL-CIO denounced the ‘double standards’ of European corporates that do not uphold freedom of association and overall workers’ rights...
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22 October 2019
Germany: chemical sector jobs impacted by transformation in the auto industry
A study published on 16 October, and jointly carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Science Research and the IG BCE chemicals and energy trade union friendly Work and Environment...
22 October 2019
Belgium: talent mobility initiative launched in finance sector
On 30 September, financial sector employer federation Febelfin and trade unions ACV Puls, GNC-CNE, BBTK/SETCa and ACLVB/CGSLB signed a new protocol on ‘talent mobility’, as a follow-on from the...
21 October 2019
Work-life balance and professional equality : two new indexes
New indexes concerning professional equality and work-life balance are now accessible. On 11 October, the European Institute for Gender Equality published its 2019 index on gender equality and...
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21 October 2019
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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
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
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