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France: employers can check the non-personal text messages on the work mobiles of its employees
In a ruling on 10 February, the commercial chamber of the French Court of Cassation stated that employers may, with legitimate reasoning, check all non-personal text messages which have been sent...
23 February 2015
Great Britain: powerful parliamentary committee continues to make its presence felt in employment matters
The Sports Direct company founder, Mike Ashley, is being called before Members of Parliament (MPs) at the House of Commons over the treatment of employees at the company’s USC retail business and...
20 February 2015
Gamesa: IndustriAll Global Union signs its first global framework agreement with a company in the renewable energy sector
On 18 February, Gamesa, the Spanish wind turbine manufacturer, signed a global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global Union, the trade union federation, and Spanish trade unions. The group...
19 February 2015
United States : following the automotive trade union UAW, an anti-union organization has entered the Chattanooga Volkswagen factory
Volkswagen is continuing to spearhead social innovations in the United States by implementing its new "community organization engagement policy". Originally meant to allow recognition of the UAW...
19 February 2015
Great Britain: #NotJustForBoys encourages women to embrace any type of career
Encouraging women to consign profession-based stereotypes to history: That's the objective of the new campaign launched by the Cameron administration and spread via Twitter, enjoying unprecedented...
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19 February 2015
Japan: revision of dispatch labor law stirs controversy
In early February, the Minister of Labor finalized a new bill to revise the dispatch labor law. This law would allow companies to make use of temporary employees for an indefinite period of time...
18 February 2015
European trade union representatives mobilize to monitor the Bangladesh Accord
European and International trade unions have organized an employee (garments and retail) representative’s workshop on the Bangladesh Accord on Fire & Building Safety. While the implementation...
18 February 2015
International: internal ILO debate over the exact nature of the right to strike
February 18, 2015 has been designated by the ITUC and unions in several countries around the globe as a global day of action in defence of the ‘right to strike’. For the past two years, in the...
17 February 2015
Total: interview with Patrice Le Cloarec, Director of Social Relations, on the global CSR agreement the Group signed with IndustriALL Global Union
Patrice Le Cloarec discusses Total’s negotiated Global CSR agreement, signed on January 22, 2015, including the agreement’s main initiatives and the steps intended for their implementation.
17 February 2015
Slovakia: amendments to the Labor Code covering temporary work assignments
On January 28, 2015, the Slovak parliament overruled a Presidential veto and approved an amendment to the Labor Code that introduces tighter conditions over the provision of labor. Most of the...
17 February 2015
France: the French Labor Court has the appropriate jurisdiction to examine the claims of former Congolese employees of the Gabonese company Comilog (co-employment)
In a decision on January 28, 2015 the Court of Cassation (France’s highest court) ruled that France’s labor jurisdiction was indeed appropriate and competent to hear the claims of 867 former...
17 February 2015
France: a new bill on the duty of care by multinational companies now goes to parliament
The socialist group in the National Assembly has tabled a new bill on parent companies’ and contractors’ duty of care that is to be examined at the end of March. The Ministry of the Economy and...
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16 February 2015
Great Britain: the GMB continues its strategy of organizing ‘precarious’ workers
Faced with a changing labour force landscape and businesses’ increasing recourse to ‘precarious” employment contracts the GMB General union has correspondingly modified its long-term organisation...
16 February 2015
Norway: spotlight on the Working Environment Act
In spite of what has been termed an historic political strike that was held on January 28, 2015 and organized by the three main employee confederations LO (blue collar workers), YS (academics)...
16 February 2015
Belgium: a united union front continues to put pressure on the government
Three employee unions are looking to put pressure on the government by organizing a major assembly for March 11, 2015 in Brussels. Even if the unions, with the exception of the socialist body the...
16 February 2015
EU: the Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies the issue of salaries payable to posted workers
As a result of its ruling in a case brought by a Finnish union against a Polish company, the CJEU has been able to clarify the concept applying ‘minimum rates of pay’ contained in a collective...
16 February 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