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United States: American Airlines concludes a “generous” wage agreement setting up the basis for better integration of the two recently merged companies
Management at American Airlines - recently formed after the merger of American Airlines and US Airways signed a 5-year pay agreement with the Allied Pilots Associations (APA), which promotes...
2 February 2015
Great Britain: Unite union announces a significant donation to Labour’s May election campaign
Financing this May’s general election is a challenge for the indebted opposition Labour party. The Unite union has started the donation ball rolling with a promise of £1.5m and perhaps more later...
30 January 2015
Sweden: worker safety is a government priority
Last year almost 50 employees met their deaths. For both Byggnads (construction workers union) and If Metall (metal workers union) who have for a long time been sounding alarm bells, this recent...
30 January 2015
Japan: unions are demanding a minimum 2% rise in wages for 2015
Japan’s traditional annual pay negotiations (Shunto) started on January 29. The main union confederation, Rengo has demanded a minimum 2% rise in salaries for 2015. Against a backdrop of 20 years...
30 January 2015
Germany: IG Metall mobilises thousands of employees for initial warning strikes
IG Metall issued the first warning shot in the collective negotiations concerning the metal industry, which comprises 3.7 million employees. Just after midnight, when the social clause prohibiting...
29 January 2015
SCOR: signs a charter on professional equality with the EWC
On January 29, the reinsurance group together with the Common European Companies Committee (SCOR comprises three European Companies – Societas Europeae) signed a charter on professional equality. ...
29 January 2015
France: the complaint filed by French NGOs against Auchan for misleading commercial practices, following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, has been dismissed
At the end of January, the prosecutor’s office in Lille dismissed the complaint lodged against Auchan (French supermarket chain) for non-respect of its ethical commitments in the Rana Plaza...
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29 January 2015
Germany: renewed discord within the grand coalition government over the minimum wage
Barely four weeks after Germany’s historic move to introduce a universal national minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour, the parliamentary Christian-Democrat group, the CDU/CSU, unanimously adopted...
29 January 2015
United States: California adds another level of social protection for contract workers
In California the final employer of contract workers will now be liable to those workers to respect working time, pay their wages, and also compensation insurance cover, in addition to their...
29 January 2015
Great Britain: the GMB and Unite unions intervene to save fracking
Although during the summer British unions had argued for the implementation of a united opposition to the controversial issue of shale gas activities, the country’s largest union Unite, together...
28 January 2015
Turkey: an all out metal workers strike is set to begin on January 29
Birleşik Metal-İş the Turkish metals union federation and affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union has announced strike action for the metals sector for January 29. Strikers will protest the...
28 January 2015
Italy: a majority of Telecom Italia workers have rejected a restructuring agreement for its Caring Services division that was seen as a potential means of remote monitoring
More than half of Telecom Italia’s workers who voted, have rejected an agreement between the company and the trade unions; SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl, UIlcom-UIl, to restructure the Caring Services...
28 January 2015
Great Britain: Brent Council subsidizes resident companies to pay staff the London living wage
Labour controlled councils in London are following the lead of Glasgow city council and thirty other Labour controlled councils in offering companies incentives to become ‘living wage employers’...
27 January 2015
The “modernisation of social dialogue” in France: an agreement was always highly unlikely
On January 22 the French social partners left the negotiation table without concluding any agreement on reforms to the current system of employee representation (see article n°8840). Four months...
26 January 2015
Greece: the new Syriza government looks to restore labor law and collective negotiations
The radical left Syriza party has just won an historic victory and may have to align with the Greek independent sovereign party to form a government. In September, Alexis Tsipras the Syriza party...
26 January 2015
China: dramatic rise in social movement in 2014
According to data from the Hong Kong based NGO, China Labour bulletin, there were 569 incidents of social protest in the fourth quarter of 2014; more than three times as many as the same period in...
26 January 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