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Norway: agreement for the postal sector
In just 48 hours the Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund (NTF/ Norwegian transport workers) together with the employers’ body NHO Logistikk og Transport (NHO LT) struck an agreement covering several...
29 April 2016
Estonia and the Nordic countries: employers look to promote immigration
Welcome to Estonia! This was the banner slogan under which the country’s confederation of employers’, Eesti Tööandjate Keskliit’s annual conference was held at the beginning of March and which...
28 April 2016
Sweden: a roundup of the 2016 collective agreement negotiations
‘Much ado about nothing’. Thus Sweden’s 2016 round of negotiations come to calm close after having commenced amid much hot air and controversy. Recalcitrant unions toed the line and kept to the...
28 April 2016
Nokia: puts a support package in place for workers laid off after mass redundancies
As expected, Nokia’s acquisition of Franco-American rival Alcatel-Lucent has had significant social consequences. Although the Finnish group did not provide any global figures beyond 1,300 job...
27 April 2016
Netherlands: PostNL postal workers conclude collective agreements over pay and working conditions
PostNL management and the trade unions FNV Public Interest, Union of Postal Employees, CNV Public Services and VHP2 have reached an agreement in principle over pay and working conditions for...
27 April 2016
Norway: towards more senior women in the oil and gas sector
The Nordic Research Institute, Norut has just published a study* on gender representation and influence in the oil and gas sector, which was commissioned by the employers’ body OLF and follows up...
27 April 2016
Inditex: the fashion retail group is turning to union experts for assistance in implementing the global framework agreement on fundamental rights along its supply chain
On 25 April the Spanish fashion retail giant and the international union federation IndustriALL Global signed a global agreement that will deploy trade union experts per country or region who will...
26 April 2016
Great Britain: the government unveils details of the new apprenticeship levy
The apprenticeship levy was introduced in the 2015 Budget. In a bid to reach its goal of 3 million apprentices, the government had announced it would be putting an apprenticeship levy in place in...
26 April 2016
Argentina: a banking sector agreement is struck and the metals sector starts to mobilize
Following negotiations marked by a series of mobilizations, a banking sector agreement was eventually forthcoming during Argentina’s overall sectoral negotiations. The trade union secured an...
26 April 2016
Great Britain: even City bosses are re-examining their own salaries
Is the era of the ‘fat cat’ coming to an end? This is the question that the UK is starting to ask itself as a shocking report, paradoxically presented by some of the City’s biggest leaders...
25 April 2016
Poland: independent workers to be able to unionize
At the end of March 2016, Poland’s Minister for Labor and Social Policy presented a draft law to the social partners for consultation on implementing legislation in line with the Constitutional...
25 April 2016
India: the draft law on child labor fans the debate on family work
The Labor Minister recently affirmed that child labor rates had fallen by 64% over the last decade and that he was putting forward a proposal to eradicate it completely. Unions, NGOs, and Nobel...
25 April 2016
United States: in a bid to mollify Uber driver demands to convert to salaried employees, the company will pay up to $100 million and offer new guarantees against arbitrary driver deactivation
Non-taxi, on-demand chauffeurs in California and Massachusetts launched a class action calling for drivers to be reclassified as salaried employees. On 20 April, Uber announced it had come to an...
22 April 2016
Poland: the government has three months to transpose Directive 2014/67/EU on the posting of workers
For several years, posted workers, with Polish posted workers being one of the EU’s main ‘exports’, have been vigorously criticized in terms of the risks for social dumping by countries with...
22 April 2016
Japan: modest wage rises from the 2016 annual negotiations
Japan’s annual springtime ‘shunto’ wage negotiations between employers and union have resulted in salary increases for the third year in a row in the country’s large companies, but also in the...
22 April 2016
EU: budget line is published to fund joint actions with EWCs, especially as regards training
The European Commission has published its annual call for proposals on “information, consultation and participation of representatives of undertakings,” which may then be exploited to partially...
21 April 2016
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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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Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
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France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
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24 September 2026
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Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
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7 September 2026