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EU: the European Social Partners set out their work program for 2015-2017
The 5th autonomous work program developed between the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the business leaders organization BusinessEurope, the CEEP (The European Centre of Employers and...
15 July 2015
Germany: two forward thinkers to take over at the helm of IG Metall from October 2015
IG Metall, the world’s biggest sectoral trade union with 2.3 million members is about to renew its management team. On 14 July management at the union designated its candidate to succeed the...
15 July 2015
International Aerospace industry unions adopt an action plan to bolster their influence and combat precarious work
Representatives of 25 aerospace unions in 16 countries across 5 continents came together on July 01 and 02 for a global conference on strengthening union presence in the sector and structuring...
15 July 2015
Belgium: agreement for the large-scale retail sector on work organization and security inside the shops
Negotiations were long and tense between the union organizations and COMEOS, the commerce sector’s employers’ federation but ended in agreement on 29 June. Disagreement had centered on the issue...
15 July 2015
Great Britain : government announces all companies of 250 staff have to publish statistics on gender pay gap
The government has announced that all companies employing over 250 staff will be legally compelled to publish statistics on the pay gap in their organisation between men and women from 2016. The...
14 July 2015
Russia: economic crisis weighs on the labor market
Recruitment consultancy firm Antal presented the results of a 2015 study on salaries and the Russian labor market. The study included results from 5,000 respondents from different Russian towns...
13 July 2015
Work starts on a binding treaty for multinational company responsibility with respect to human rights violations
The first session of the “intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights,” guided by the UNO Human Rights Council came to...
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13 July 2015
France: law for growth and activity permanently adopted
At the labour law level the law relaxes provisions over Sunday and night-time work, it strengthens regulations combatting social dumping related to posted workers, it put a compensation scale in...
10 July 2015
Japan: reforms to do away with overtime pay
No more overtime pay: this is the project for reform to labor regulations that the government is looking to get adopted during this parliamentary session for implementation in April 2016. This...
10 July 2015
Lithuania: a new social model is presented before parliament
Given what has been considered as a completely outdated legal environment, the government looking to act fast has decided to bring a new ‘social model’ before parliament comprising some 20...
10 July 2015
EU: the CJEU holds that members of the board of directors are also workers
In a ruling on a German case handed down on July 09 the CJEU decided that the director of a capital company who carries out an activity under the supervision of another body of that company and...
9 July 2015
Société Générale: a new addendum to the EWC puts in place a single representation entity for the group in France and Europe
On July 09, Société Générale’s Comité de Groupe France (CGF) (French Works Council) agreed to merge with the EWC. The addendum regulating the operations of the new Comité de Groupe Européen, the...
9 July 2015
Brazil: Dilma Rousseff has launched a new jobs protection program to limit layoffs during crisis periods
In force since July 07, Brazil’s job protection program the PPE aims to support businesses in the industrial sector that are affected by the economic slowdown. The program will subsidize workers’...
9 July 2015
Italy: separate agreement that renews a collective agreement for both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and CNH Industrial
Following 9 months of negotiations, both FCA and CNH Industrial concluded a separate agreement to renew a collective agreement that runs from 2015 – 2018 and applies to 85,000 employees. It...
8 July 2015
Great Britain: surprise announcement of an obligatory living wage
On Wednesday July 08 and before an incredulous Labour Party David Cameron’s government presented its first 100% Conservative party budget since the party was reelected to power and in it announced...
8 July 2015
Germany: train drivers’ union GDL takes the law on single unions to the Federal Constitutional Court
On July 07, the day following Germany’s President, Joachim Gauck signed the controversial law on single trade unions the corporatist union GDL announced it would soon lodge a complaint against the...
8 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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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