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Italy: national collective agreement for chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector renewed six months in advance
Following some quick-fire negotiations, Italian employer organisations Federchimica and Farmindustria reached an agreement with trade unions Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, Uiltec, Ugl Chimici...
23 July 2018
Italy: social partners in logistics sector define a professional profile for delivery riders
With Luigi Di Maio, Italy’s Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Social Policies, having forced meal delivery giants to sit around the negotiating table with trade unions, to agree on a...
23 July 2018
Poland: reform of tripartite social dialogue passed (in brief)
On 19 July 2018, Polish president Andrzej Duda formally passed the new law on the council for national social dialogue, a tripartite dialogue body (see article n°10553 on the bill). As a result of...
23 July 2018
Spain: union discord surrounds the textile industry’s collective agreement renewal
Pre-agreement for some, strike action for others. At the very time when the UGT was announcing it had concluded a pre-agreement with the employers’ bodies over the textile sector’s collective...
19 July 2018
Portugal: National Assembly adopts modifications to the labor code upon its first reading
On 18 July Portugal’s national Assembly adopted the labor code reform at its first reading. The reform aims to reduce precarious work by restricting fixed term employment contract renewals and by...
19 July 2018
Spain: government prepares its social agenda and will revisit 2012 legislation on collective bargaining
Six weeks after coming to power, Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez’s team is looking to stamp its mark on its social agenda by way of defining a roadmap for work related regulation. The minority...
19 July 2018
Germany: Employment Minister creates a ‘social employment market’ to tackle long term unemployment
On 18 July during a Government cabinet meeting the grand coalition adopted a draft law by Work and Social Affairs Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), which seeks to offer subsidized job support and take...
18 July 2018
Italy: healthy momentum underpinning company-level negotiations
On 17 July, the central union Cisl presented its annual Ocsel report that analyses over 2,000 company agreements negotiated in the period between 2016 and 2017. The report shows that decentralized...
18 July 2018
EU: annual Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review focuses on both digitalization and automation
On 13 July, the European Commission published the 2018 edition of its yearly Employment and Social Developments in Europe (ESDE) review that reports significant progress in terms of meeting the...
18 July 2018
News update as of July 17, 2018
On the menu : a new UK Corporate Governance Code, In Italy, Conte's government looking to restrict Sunday trading, new commerce sector collective agreement tightens Sunday trading framework in...
17 July 2018
News update as of July 13, 2018
Italy/ Difficult road ahead for so-called 'Dignity Decree', which is set to be amended during its passage through parliament. The Dignity Decree (see article no. 10750), which has been heavily...
13 July 2018
Germany: employment minister unveils pensions reform
Presented on 13 July in Berlin by Hubertus Heil, German minister for labour and social affairs, from the SPD party, the pensions reform bill seeks to restore the confidence of different...
13 July 2018
EU: the European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Commission makes significant amendments to the draft directive on work-life balance (briefly)
The European Parliament Employment and Social Affairs Commission has shown itself to be actively ready to enter into negotiations with EU governments on the draft directive addressing work-life...
11 July 2018
Spain: unions and employers finalize Catalonia’s Cross-Industry Pre-Agreement that sets the major guidelines for collective negotiations over the 2018-2020 period
Representatives from both the employers and employees bodies worked well into ‘extra-time’ before eventually securing a ‘pre-agreement’, which, after ratification by the different trade unions’...
11 July 2018
EU: publication in the OJEU of the directive concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services
Two years of negotiations were needed before the EU Council of Ministers and European Parliament could secure this directive that amends the previous ‘unassailable’ 1996 directive (Directive...
11 July 2018
News update as of July 10, 2018
Australia/ Sexual harassment in the workplace to be surveyed nationwide. In response to the #metoo movement, the Australian Human Rights Commission has announced the launch of a one-year survey on...
10 July 2018
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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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EU: Omnibus Directive clears key milestone in European Parliament
On 13 October, the European Parliament’s position on the Omnibus Directive was approved by its Committee on Legal Affairs by 17 votes to six. Regarding due diligence rules, the report...
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13 October 2025
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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Italy: European pay transparency directive, a major step forward for businesses
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: EU pay transparency directive to force companies to ‘get tough’
Germany introduced a pay transparency law in 2017, meaning companies are already somewhat familiar with the issue. However, the broader scope and stricter requirements of the EU directive, the...
24 October 2025
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France: government proposes suspending pension reform
French prime minister Sébastien Lecornu, reappointed on 10 October after resigning four days earlier, delivered his general policy speech to the National Assembly on 14 October. He announced the...