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Randstad: a new European Works Council (under European Directive 2009/38/EC) replaces its former agreed voluntary structure
Since 1996 the Dutch multinational employment agency has operated under an agreed voluntary information and consultation structure (the Randstad European Platform). On 10 July 2015, together with...
29 July 2015
Luxembourg: reform of law on company social dialogue
The law of 23 July 2015 reforming social dialogue within companies was published in the Memorial on 27 July 2015. The law does away with the ‘Comité Mixte’ (joint committees), transferring...
29 July 2015
Belgium: the government starts shifting the tax burden from employment revenue towards a broader spectrum of revenue sources
“An engine for growth and employment,” is how Prime Minister Charles Michel presented the agreement on the 2015 budget adjustment and the 2016 draft budget that was concluded on the night of 22/23...
24 July 2015
Spain: Coca-Cola’s restructuring plan cancelled and company has to give workers back their jobs if they want
Following the court’s cancellation of Coca-Cola Spain’s redundancy plan the company is preparing to reopen its Madrid site as a logistics center whilst keeping its other three sites shut...
24 July 2015
France: law to reform industrial relations gets adopted
On 23 July, the French parliament gave final approval to adopt a draft law to simplify employee representation bodies and alleviate the level of formalism that so often characterizes social...
24 July 2015
United States : towards a 15$ minimum wage in New York’s fast-food industry
After almost two years of mobilization, a decision by local authorities on Wednesday will see fast–food workers in the State of New York earning a minimum wage of $15 an hour in 2021 (in 2018 of...
23 July 2015
Greece: Parliament assuages its creditors in adopting pension reforms and now has to address labor law reforms in August
Two of the measures required by Greece’s creditors in order to release a third bailout plan of over 80 billion € were voted in by parliament leaving MPs now having to legislate over labor laws...
23 July 2015
Great Britain: Lloyds Bank Group derecognizes one of its founding trade unions amid intra-trade union discord
The Lloyds Bank Group is to derecognise its biggest union, the Lloyds Trade Union (LTU) that represents some 30,000 members in the group. This results from a breakdown in industrial relations with...
20 July 2015
France: unions cannot take the place of EWCs when contesting the pertinence of the implementation of an information procedure
On 17 July the Nanterre High Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance) ruled that the two union bodies in question could not take action, (rather than the EWC), with respect to information procedures...
20 July 2015
Italy: Fim and Uilm present a common platform to renew the national metal sector collective agreement
On 16 July both management centers in Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil approved a common platform to renew the metal sector national collective agreement (from 2016-2018) that comes to expiry on 31 December...
20 July 2015
Great Britain: Unite using social media to campaign Pizza Express to fully pass customer tips to its staff
The upmarket pizza restaurant chain, Pizza Express, which has 400 restaurants and over 10,000 employees, is experiencing a social media campaign to force the company to end its practice of...
17 July 2015
Slovakia: a new system of vocational education and training
Since 01 April 2015, Slovakia has a new system of vocational education and training that is largely based on the model used in Germany for example. The new system targets the successful...
17 July 2015
Great Britain: Brexit remains a hot topic for the summer
“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Such is the thorny question to which the British will conclusively reply by 2017. This referendum already worries and divides...
16 July 2015
Israel: first agreements over employee transfer conditions signed by Histadrut in the hi-tech sector
On 24 June the Israeli trade union organization Histadrut signed two collective agreements for employees of the Israeli-American company Comverse. The agreements cover conditions for workers due...
16 July 2015
Norway: principle of equal treatment breached to the benefit of temporary work agencies
On 06 July 2015 the Labor Administration adopted a regulation allowing temporary work agencies to waive equal treatment rules under certain conditions. Business leaders bodies have welcomed the...
16 July 2015
Great Britain : Government introduces Bill to Parliament for long awaited reforms of industrial action
The Conservative government has published its long awaited Trade Union Bill. It includes measures on new, more stringent thresholds for mandates for industrial action as well as allowing employers...
15 July 2015
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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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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