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Slovakia: automobile unions drive for higher salaries
Unions operating within the sector’s symbolic automakers, Kia Motors Slovakia, Volkswagen Slovakia, and PSA, have started 2017 with strong wage rise demands. This year they are calling for...
6 March 2017
Italy: new norms against call center offshoring
Measures sanctioning call center offshoring as intended by the 2017 Finance Law have just come into force. With strong backing from the trade unions, the new measures both impose constraints on...
6 March 2017
China: FAW-Volkswagen temp workers protest against unequal treatment
According to German correspondents and information from the China Labour Bulletin (CLB), a Hong Kong-based NGO, there has been a rare series of protests at the automobile manufacturer...
3 March 2017
United Kingdom: companies form the key stone of the government’s new digital strategy
More than 4 million UK citizens will receive free digital training over the next few years. This is the promise UK prime minister Theresa May has made, as part of plans to build for the country’s...
3 March 2017
Germany: agreement in textile sector for 4.4% wage raise
On Wednesday 1 March, social partners from the textile sector struck an agreement on a wage raise. The agreement provides for a 4.4% increase in total and it will affect 100,000 employees in the...
3 March 2017
EU: European union federations start setting out the changes they want seen effected in the EU Directive on EWCs
On 31 January the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT), the European Public Services Union...
2 March 2017
How Carrefour implements its diversity policy in Argentina
Within a legal context that strange to the topic of Corporate Social Responsiblity and diversity, the French distributer applies its group-wide defined norms and has established a set of measures...
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2 March 2017
EU: five scenarios for a Europe of tomorrow
The European Commission is placing the Member States face to face with their responsibilities. On 01 March the European Commission presented a white paper that lays out five scenarios for the...
2 March 2017
News update as of 1 March 2017
On the menu: Chinese industry salaries are catching up on their Greek and Portuguese counterparts, Finnish trade unions develop initiatives in response to the gig economy, Uber’s sexual harassment...
28 February 2017
Great Britain: companies urged to raise employee ethnic diversity
In a shock report commissioned by the UK government and published on 28 February it was revealed that treating black and minority ethnic (BME) employees in the same way as other employees could...
28 February 2017
Spain: souring relations between employers’ bodies and unions over the national framework agreement negotiations on salaries and collective bargaining
Since the end of 2016, discussions between the social partners on a framework for salary recommendations, which should have come into force on 01 January 2017, and which should allow businesses to...
28 February 2017
Italy: insurance sector national collective agreement renewed
On 22 February and more than three years after the previous collective agreement reached its term, social partners in the insurance sector came to a draft agreement for renewing the national...
28 February 2017
Belgium: bill adopted to make labour law more flexible
On Thursday 22 February, the country’s lower house adopted a bill to reform the country’s labour law. The plans will relax legislation on working time, create a framework for occasional telework...
27 February 2017
Austria: bonus for employing local workers
Last week, the Austrian government set out plans for a new recruitment subsidy (Beschäftigungsbonus) for the hiring of local workers. This measure, which will be funded with 2 billion euros and is...
27 February 2017
EU: “We need a pay rise for social and macroeconomic reasons”, interview with Luca Visentini, General Secretary of ETUC
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) launched a campaign on 14 February 2017 to demand a pay rise for workers throughout Europe. For its General Secretary Luca Visentini, the European...
24 February 2017
United Kingdom: Uber and Deliveroo in plea for greater protection of freelance workers
When questioned by a UK parliamentary commission over how the so-called gig economy’s boom has affected the country’s social protection system, bosses at the mobile application Uber and the food...
24 February 2017
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
Spain is preparing for the implementation of its national law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will take effect on 7 June 2026. The legislation marks another step forward in...
5 November 2025
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
4 November 2025
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EU: Court of Justice largely upholds directive on adequate minimum wages
On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
12 November 2025
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
4 November 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