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EU: formal cooperation is launched between the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and the EU enforcement organization (ECR)
On March 04, 2015, both the ETF and the ECR signed a declaration of intent and a work program for 2015. Both parties are hoping to simplify, improve, and make fairer, how social and transport...
10 March 2015
Italy: the Fit-Cisl union has received enough public signatures to put its draft law to parliament over new strike regulations for local public transport
Rebalancing the costs of strike action, currently receiving workers’ and travellers’ support, and reducing conflict. Thus are the goals of a ‘peoples’ draft law presented by the Fit-Cisl to the...
9 March 2015
Denmark: four large companies trial a new ‘strategic’ partnership with several job centers
Tryg, BRF Kredit, Danfoss, and Faick are currently four businesses trialing a strategic partnership with job centers to bolster co-operation and help both those on benefits get back to work as...
9 March 2015
Belgium: Bpost studies the notion of annualized hours for its mail division
Since January 2015, the Belgian postal distribution division has been in discussions with unions over annualized working hours as a way of improving workload management. Weekly hours would remain...
9 March 2015
Sweden: the LO (blue collar) and TCO (white collar, professional, highly qualified) are running neck and neck…
“Vi ökar igen!” “We are still developing” enthused Eva Nordmark –TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees) President, on February 16, when she announced a 3% rise in membership numbers...
9 March 2015
Germany: the Bundestag passes a law on gender quotas for German companies’ supervisory boards.
On Friday March 06, following years of controversy, the Bundestag voted by a large majority to pass a law that introduces a quota for female representation on the supervisory boards of Germany’s...
6 March 2015
EU: the European Commission seeks to revive social dialogue at both national and European levels
On Thursday March 05, all the European social partners gathered together in Brussels for a high-level conference hosted by the EU Commission called ‘A New Start for Social Dialogue’. Speaking to...
6 March 2015
United States: Congress opposes a proposed NLRB regulation on unionization
The war of attrition being waged against the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) continues. The majority led Senate adopted a proposition that blocks the NLRB’s December 2014 new union election...
6 March 2015
Spain: the CCOO union adopts a code of conduct aimed at protecting itself from further controversy
In response to several unsavory episodes involving CCOO heads, its confederal council has approved an internal code of conduct. The document addresses a number of changes in internal operations...
5 March 2015
Sweden: a new collective agreement for the banks
On March 02 and following four months of negotiations, Finansförbundet (Financial Sector Union of Sweden) and BAO (Employers’ Organization of the Swedish Banking Institutions) signed a new pay and...
5 March 2015
Germany: an ‘employers’ study concludes that trade unions have indeed made a comeback
Since the financial crisis back in 2006, German trade unions have extended both their presence in German companies and their political influence at national level. They are now reconciled with...
4 March 2015
Great Britain: significant agreement over industrial relations at Royal Mail
Barely a year after signing a landmark agreement in February 2014, both the privatized British postal delivery group Royal Mail and the CWU union appear, in Lionel Sampson’s (CWU) words, to have...
4 March 2015
Germany: digitization is a massive challenge facing HR units (feedback from the German Association for Personnel Management congress)
How is the rapid rise in digitization changing business models and value chains? What is the impact on how work is organized? What is HR’s role in the face of the challenges that the digital...
3 March 2015
Great Britain: the GMB succeeds in signing more new union recognition agreements
Data shows that unions continue to sign new recognition agreements and gain new representation and bargaining rights for their members. Even if the actual number of signed agreements is lower than...
3 March 2015
Germany: another setback for the draft law on occupational health and safety
The new workplace law (Arbeitsstätteverordnung) will not come into force as scheduled on March 01, 2013. The German press reported severe criticism by business leaders that pressured the...
2 March 2015
Nordea: together with the four Nordic unions, employees from the Polish subsidiary establish a new union in Poland
Union cooperation in Nordea has contributed to a new union for employees of the group’s Polish subsidiary, who had up until now been only lightly unionized. The underlying objective is to...
2 March 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