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Germany: Schaeffler, its WC and IG Metall seeking together to meet the digital challenge
Formerly at ‘daggers drawn’, family run Schaeffler, its WC and the IG Metall union adopted on 16 April a ‘Pact for the future’, which IG Metall believes may become a model for the auto sector. In...
17 April 2018
Poland: establishment of a competences planning Council
On 04 April, Poland’s government officially launched a Rada Progamowa (competences planning Council). The Council’s primary objective is to formulate guidelines to reform the education system in...
17 April 2018
Germany: ‘generous’ deal reached at Deutsche Telekom amid pressure of digitalisation
On 12 April, after a fourth meeting, negotiators from Deutsche Telekom and the services trade union Verdi announced that they had reached a compromise that is likely to please the 55,000 employees...
13 April 2018
Brazil: labour market begins to adjust to the ageing population by harnessing the human qualities of older workers
In 2017, a number of Brazilian companies launched their first-ever recruitment campaigns specifically targeting workers over the age of 50. Such individuals are experiencing heightened interest...
13 April 2018
Italy: rescue plan for the former Alcoa Sardinia steel facility sparks debate over worker participation in companies’ capital structures
To general surprise, on 09 April during a meeting on a rescue plan for the Alco Sardinia steel facility, Carlo Calenda, Italy’s Minister for Economic Development announced that the project...
12 April 2018
Brazil: as the government launches its agenda for ‘Industry 4.0’, unions are seeking consultation and dialogue on the future of jobs
In mid-March Brazil’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade put a series of measures forward that aim to stimulate ‘the industry of the future’. The metals union has harshly criticized the lack...
12 April 2018
Rana Plaza; five years on
It was almost five years ago when on 24 April 2013 the 8-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed resulting in 1,134 fatalities and 2,000 injured. At the time the disaster caused a great...
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12 April 2018
Germany: a new collective agreement at Deutsche Post allows employees to choose between more money and more free time
In line with recent sector and company level negotiations that indicate how Germany’s workers are seeking ways to achieve a better work-life balance, Deutsche Post’s (DP) 130,000 employees, who...
11 April 2018
Great Britain: satisfied senior managers but with the low skilled stuck in their jobs, the CIPD provides its first overview of how good job quality is in the UK
On 11 April, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for HR and people development, published its first broad survey on the quality of jobs in the UK...
11 April 2018
EU: European social partners are divided over the New Deal for Consumers
Europe’s New Deal for Consumers, which in particular aims to introduce a system of limited collective recourse across the EU has met with hostility from representatives of both workers and private...
11 April 2018
News update as of 10 April 2018
On the menu :wage gap law on the way in Ireland, towards a right to disconnect in North America/?, japanese draft law to combat work-related mortality due to overwork, the number of company rating...
10 April 2018
Norway: agreement on salaries and pensions struck between the union confederations (LO and YS) and the employers’ body (NHO)
On 08 April 2018, 15 hours after the date that was set for strike action, agreement was eventually found between the employers’ NHO body, and the LO and YS union confederations. Extracting...
9 April 2018
United Kingdom: a breakdown of gender pay gap figures
More than 10,000 UK companies with 250 employees or more published their gender pay gap in time for the April 4 deadline set by the country’s government, as part of a new law adopted in 2017 (see...
9 April 2018
Spain: talks between unions and employers over collective bargaining and employment framework agreement at a standstill
Will trade unions and employers in Spain manage to seal a framework agreement on collective bargaining and employment this year? That is the question on people’s lips as talks remain at a...
9 April 2018
United States: trade unions raise concerns over draft labour law reforms in Mexico, which could undermine the objectives of the NAFTA renegociation
With negotiations over a new free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico (NAFTA), which had long been viewed as dead in the water, recently resuming, aided perhaps by the...
9 April 2018
News updates as of April 5, 2018
On the menu : in Germany, major retailer Real quits the employer’s body in order to cease dealing with the services union Verdi, roughly 1,500 UK companies have missed the midnight 04 April...
4 April 2018
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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...
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14 October 2025
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 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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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025