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Italy: Confindustria and the unions transpose the European framework agreement on work related harassment and violence
On 25 January, Italy’s employers’ body Confindustria signed an agreement with the CGIL, Cisl, and the Uil unions that puts in place a framework agreement addressing workplace harassment and...
26 January 2016
Germany: the German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB) calls for more flexibility in working time to benefit workers
During the annual press conference on 25 January, and following a more or less positive assessment for 2015, Reiner Hoffmann, DGB president, presented the main thrusts for union action in 2016...
26 January 2016
United States: American IT workers replaced by Indian manpower take Walt Disney to court
Two former IT employees at the Walt Disney Park in Orlando, Florida are taking their former employer to court for having replaced them with young Indian workers residing in the United States...
26 January 2016
France: now that the ‘essential principles of the labor law” have been set the government can launch the process to rewrite the Labor Code
With the Badinter report on “the fundamental principles of the labor law” having been delivered on 25 January 2016, the Minister for Labor, Myriam El Khomri now holds the key piece for the Labor...
25 January 2016
Daimler: opens negotiations over the right to mobile working
Whilst the German automaker Daimler already offers a variety of working time models apparently this is still not enough. Results from a large internal survey showed that almost 80% of the 33,000...
25 January 2016
Italy: a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’ exclusively destined for paying casual labor
The latest report by the Observatory for unstable employment carried out for the National Social Security Institute (INPS) has revealed a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’, that were originally...
25 January 2016
Great Britain: the CAC delivers a significant ruling on EWCs
On 19 January the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), a labour tribunal with responsibility for EWC issues, delivered its decision in a dispute between the employers’ representatives of the newly...
22 January 2016
Poland: the government looks to introduce minimum pay into independent workers’ contracts
On 20 January, Poland’s government published a draft law that looks to introduce, effective July 2016, a minimum level of hourly pay for services provisions contracts of up to 12 PLN before tax...
22 January 2016
Sweden: the union confederation LO fears a weakening in its position following a scandal affecting one of its unions (Kommunal)
“Inacceptable”. Such is the reaction of a large section of the Kommunal (Municipality employees) union’s membership, following revelations in the Aftonbladet daily publication over extravagant...
22 January 2016
News update as of 21 January 2016
On the menu this week: Italy’s main CGIL union launches a project for a “Universal labor rights charter” for all workers, subordinate or otherwise. France and Germany drive a revision to an EU...
21 January 2016
Germany: bolstered by increased membership numbers, the IG Metall union intends “to conquer the world of digital work”
On 20 January 2016, in Frankfurt, during the annual conference of the metals and electro-technical union IG Metall, its new president Jörg Hofman, announced that last year the organization had...
20 January 2016
ILO: weak employment, emerging and developing economies in chronically bad shape
Persistently high levels of global unemployment along with chronic levels of vulnerable employment in many emerging and developing economies continue to profoundly affect the world of work...
20 January 2016
Sweden: disparate claims from unions face a united employers’ front
Unions, presented separate demands from what is a fractured front, on the day before the start of negotiations. The two principal groups “Facken inom industri” (Union of industrial trade unions)...
20 January 2016
Putting online an agreement that established a single works council for two European companies; Christian Dior SE and LVMH SE
Two European companies with a single common personnel representation body. The arrangement to put a single works council in place was chosen in an agreement signed by Christian Dior SE and LVMH SE...
20 January 2016
Child labor: Amnesty International criticizes the lack of due diligence by big brand electronics and automobile names over mining conditions being used in producing their products
Major electronics and automobile brands have not been doing basic checks to ensure that their products do not include cobalt mined by children, criticized Amnesty International and African...
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19 January 2016
Russia: employees suffering from a crisis in the automobile sector
Russia’s automobile sector is going through its worst crisis for fifteen years. According to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), new vehicles sales plunged by more than a third in 2015...
19 January 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...
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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026