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Switzerland: 8% unemployment set as the threshold for ‘indigenous’ recruitment priority
On 08 December, Switzerland’s Federal Parliament set as 8% the unemployment threshold rate above which Swiss employers will have to advertise vacant positions without any nationality partisanship...
12 December 2017
UNI Global Union sets out groundbreaking principles in data collection protection and ethical artificial intelligence
On 11 December UNI Global Union released two documents, each containing a set of ten principles that aim to address how work-related data is managed. The union confederation stated, “Data...
12 December 2017
Austria: new governmental coalition seeks to allow 12-hour working days
On Wednesday 6 December, the heads of the two political parties that will form Austria’s next government – Sebastian Kurz of the conservatives (ÖVP) and Hans-Christian Strache of the right-wing...
11 December 2017
Brexit: questions remain on the rights of European and British expats after agreement between the United Kingdom and European Commission
“Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”. This wording, contained in the 15-page document detailing the agreement between the European Commission and United Kingdom (see article no. 10489)...
11 December 2017
Germany: Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and BLG Logistics organise employee exchange programme to prepare staff for the challenges of digitalisation
As part of a pilot project named CROSS (Competence Rotation Over Several Sectors), 14 workers at Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and BLG Logistics participated in an employee exchange programme, between...
8 December 2017
United Kingdom: Primark and Sports Direct singled out for failing to pay the minimum wage
Having stuck to its policy to ‘name and shame’ offending firms, the UK government published a list of 260 companies that failed to pay the minimum wage to a combined total of 16,000 workers. In...
8 December 2017
Ireland: government unveils bill to ban zero-hour contracts
Ireland’s centre-right government plans to ban zero-hour contracts, which offer no guarantee of a salary or working time, at the start of 2018. To this end, the Employment (Miscellaneous...
8 December 2017
In brief, United Kingdom and European Commission reach an agreement which guarantees the rights of European and British citizens post-Brexit
The Commission offers the assurance that “the rights of EU citizens living in the United Kingdom and United Kingdom citizens in the EU27 will remain the same after the United Kingdom has left the...
8 December 2017
France : the national rail company SNCF signs an agreement on modernizing union based communication
Against a backdrop of ‘digitalized industrial relations’, on 17 November, French rail company SNCF together with the principal representative union bodies, the central works council, and the...
6 December 2017
Italy: logistics sector national collective agreement renewed and a professional profile for riders to come
On 03 December, twenty or so employers’ bodies together with the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti unions signed an agreement that intends for the national collective agreement in the logistics...
5 December 2017
Great Britain: government to pull back its ‘Fit for Work’ program
Launched at the end of 2014 the government’s ‘Fit for Work’ initiative aimed at tackling absenteeism will be significantly downgraded from mid-December. The program had allowed employers to refer...
5 December 2017
EU : a joint declaration on Telework in the European Banking Sector
On 17 November, the European social partners of the banking sector* signed a Joint Declaration on Telework in the European Banking Sector. They have already agreed to also sign a further joint...
4 December 2017
Italy: collective agreement renewed at Poste Italiane
Following almost two years of negotiations, Poste Italiane signed a new collective agreement with the Slc-Cgil, Slp-Cisl, Uilposte, Failp-Cisal, Confsal and Ugl trade unions. Penned on 30...
4 December 2017
Argentina: government looks to move quickly on labour law reform, despite protests
The Argentinian government has set itself an ambitious target for its controversial reform of working time. The bill reached the parliamentary stage two weeks ago, following an unprecedented...
4 December 2017
Italy: UniCredit and its EWC sign a joint declaration on work-life balance
This declaration is a first in Europe’s banking sector. It sets out a series of measures that recognize workers’ skills and working time, whilst also respecting their private lives at a time when...
30 November 2017
Germany: Audi launches a major training campaign focused on big data and artificial intelligence
Germany’s automaker has just launched a major further-training ‘campaign’ called ‘data.camp’, which should enable “faster and more targeted skills acquisition for employees in areas for the...
30 November 2017
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
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
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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France: Cabinet adopts pay transparency bill
After several months of delay beyond the European deadline of 7 June 2026, French Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Farandou finally presented the bill transposing the Pay Transparency Directive to the...
10 September 2026
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Germany: IG Metall demands 5% pay rise amid severe pressure
Despite the crisis hitting the automotive industry, the leadership of the German trade union IG Metall announced on Wednesday 23 September that it would be asking for a 5% pay increase as well as...
23 September 2026
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Spain: government revisits its draft decree on salary transparency
The Spanish Ministry of Labour has opened a consultation on the transposition of the European directive on salary transparency and the reduction of the gender pay gap. This decision follows a...
8 September 2026
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EU: Commission proposes a list of worker-related criteria for public procurement
The news. On 9 September, the European Commission published a proposal for a regulation aimed at unifying European public procurement law, which accounts for 15% of European GDP. It is notably set...
17 September 2026
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Spain: approval of decree on employees’ right to clear information on working conditions
The Spanish government validated, on September 8 in the Council of Ministers, the decree transposing the European directive on transparent and predictable working conditions. This text requires...
9 September 2026
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France: bioMérieux strengthens its end-of-career support measures
The news. In vitro diagnostic specialist bioMérieux (4,400 employees in France) and unions CFDT, CFE-CGC, and CGT signed a new agreement on June 18, 2026, dedicated to end-of-career...
10 September 2026