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Spain: pay moderation agreement at Opel Figueruelas
Management and unions at the Spanish Opel plant have announced a pre-agreement on salaries which includes a 2018 pay freeze in exchange for new projects securing the site’s future.
30 January 2018
Norway fresh strike action protesting temporary employment agencies is set for March
Following last November’s strike action, four unions from the electronics, construction, and plumbing sectors together with the LO Confederation have decided to organize fresh strike action for 15...
30 January 2018
Portugal: following a sit-in workers at the former Triumph underwear and lingerie workplace secure collective dismissal for economic reasons
Following a three-week sit-in at the facility, 463 former Triumph workers secured a company insolvency decision. The Tribunal ruling now unlocks the right to collective dismissal compensation, and...
30 January 2018
News update as of January 26, 2018
On the menu : Spanish Employment minister seeks stronger penalties against companies that hand out temporary contracts without justification and a work-life balance agreement which grants the...
26 January 2018
Germany: IG Metall union agrees to last-ditch negotiation push in the metal sector and issues ultimatum
Following a crisis meeting held on 26 January, the leadership of the IG Metall union announced that it would continue negotiations with the employer organisation in Baden-Württemberg, the most...
25 January 2018
Finland: government, challenged because of its recent policies to activate the unemployed, calls for help from companies
Faced with the threat of social movement, Finland’s Prime Minister is calling on employers to help by hiring the unemployed for short periods of time. The trade unions, which also represent the...
25 January 2018
Finland brief update: Google is funding a cooperative set up by the journalists union to give journalists freelance status
Mediakunta cooperative, which according to the latest count employs more than 160 freelance journalists, has just received €50,000 from the Google Digital News Initiative, as funding support to...
25 January 2018
Poland: important labor law reforms expected for 2018
Despite the Labor Minister, Elzbieta Rafalska’s autumn 2017 declarations that “there will not be a revolution within the Labor Code’, the 2018 reforms will overhaul several important legal...
24 January 2018
Briefly: The European Commission has uploaded a guide and information on the new on personal data protection regulation
The European Commission had intended to provide the national governments and relevant authorities with a guide to ensure the homogeneous application of the regulation. The guide has just been...
24 January 2018
France and Germany seek to encourage apprenticeship mobility between both countries and intra-Europe
On 22 January 2018, Franco-German Day, at the French embassy in Berlin, the topic of apprenticeship mobility took center-stage with high-level ranking figures from both countries attending and...
24 January 2018
News update as of January 23, 2018
On the menu : an ILO Convention against violence at work in 2019, an agreement resolving a dispute between the international trade unions and a leading clothing brand has amounted to $2.3...
23 January 2018
Canada: with the 2017 labor law reform, Ontario has taken its first step on the road towards fairer workplaces
In May 2017, following two years of detailed examination of Ontario’s changing workplaces, both special advisers C. Michael Mitchell and John C. Murray that Labor Minister Kevin Flynn tasked with...
22 January 2018
Stora Enso: global framework agreement signed
On Friday 19 January, Stora Enso, the Finnish-Swedish company that specialises in renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper, signed a global framework agreement with three...
22 January 2018
France: government looks to foster mobility of apprentices in Europe
Reforming France’s apprenticeships framework is currently under discussion among social partners, but the government believes the issue needs to be tackled not only on a national level but at the...
19 January 2018
Japan: older workers allowed to accumulate jobs
Job combining or accumulation has been prohibited for a longtime at Japan’s companies and their internal regulations have stated as much. However the Minister for Health Employment and Social...
19 January 2018
France: the automaker PSA becomes the first company to harness new permission to mutually terminate contracts through collective agreement
A majority of unions ( five out of six) at the French car manufacturer signed today (January 19) the agreements to make use of two new measures introduced as part of France’s new labour reform –...
18 January 2018
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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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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