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Brazil: banking sector collective agreement negotiations stuck on labor reform issues
Campaign 2018, Brazil’s banking sector’s national employee agreement renegotiations that commenced several weeks ago is facing a growing number of difficulties. This highly unionized sector is one...
24 July 2018
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
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29 January 2026
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
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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...
5 March 2026
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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...
13 March 2026
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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...
2 March 2026
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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...
6 March 2026