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United States: UAW gives up fighting at Volkswagen’s Tennessee site
The United Auto Workers’ union has permanently given up the fight at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant. The union claims the limitations of American labor law are making it useless to launch a...
22 April 2014
Great Britain: more unrest in the construction industry, this time coming from bogus self-employed workers employed by labour agencies
Some 200,000 construction workers are believed to be employed on bogus self-employment contracts through labour agencies. Following a measure toughening controls over bogus self-employment by the...
18 April 2014
Brazil: CUT signs first national company agreement in the metal industry
The first company agreement of national coverage in the Brazilian metal industry was signed on April 16 by the metalworkers’ union (CNM), affiliated with the Unified Workers' Central (CUT), the...
18 April 2014
France: mobilization for the introduction of duty of care for parent companies
A few days to the anniversary of the collapse of the Rana Plaza textile plant in Bangladesh, mobilization is growing in France for the bill aiming to introduce a duty of care for parent company to...
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17 April 2014
Brazil: three orange juice majors sentenced to pay €36.7 million for subcontracting fraud
On March 31, three orange juice majors were sentenced to pay a fine amounting to BRL 110 million (€36.7m) for subcontracting fraud. In addition to Cutrale and Fischer, two Brazilian companies...
17 April 2014
Luxembourg: temporary work agreements renewed
On March 28, the social partners in Luxembourg’s temporary work industry renewed two collective agreements: that on agency workers and that on permanent employees in temporary work agencies. The...
17 April 2014
EU: public transport social partners want to improve women’s role in the sector as well as bus drivers’ training
On April 8, the European social partners in urban public transport adopted joint recommendations aimed at increasing the share of female employees as well as a joint declaration on training of bus...
17 April 2014
United States: United Auto Workers reach beyond the auto sphere
The United Auto Workers (UAW) managed to increase their membership. They completed 2013 with 391,415 members, i.e. 9,000 more than in 2012 and nearly 15,000 more than in 2010. Why this upsurge? ...
17 April 2014
Austria: tight negotiations around the daily working time reform
In their government agreement negotiated after the national election at the end of 2013, the parties of the coalition in power in Vienna have decided to implement a major working time reform. Its...
16 April 2014
EU: European Parliament adopts draft directive applying for the posting of workers
By adopting, today April 16, the compromise reached with the Council of Ministers on the proposal on the enforcement of Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers, the MEPs have secured...
16 April 2014
EU: European Parliament adopts draft directive on extra-financial reporting
Today, April 15, the European Parliament adopted the compromise reached with the Council of EU Ministers on the draft directive on the disclosure of non-financial information and data regarding...
16 April 2014
EU: Parliament adopts draft directive on the preservation of supplementary pension rights for migrant workers
Today, April 15, the European Parliament adopted the compromise reached with the Council of EU Ministers on the draft directive improving the acquisition and preservation of supplementary pension...
15 April 2014
EU: European Parliament adopts amendments for the draft directive on intra-group posting for third-country nationals
Today, April 15, for its last plenary session before the European elections, the European Parliament adopted its first reading report on the proposal for a directive on conditions of entry and...
15 April 2014
Germany: because of the constant erosion of apprenticeship, all parties question the passion for the university path
According to the 2014 report on vocational training presented last week, the vocational training system is still eroding. In 2013, 33,500 places remained vacant and 83,000 youngsters looking for...
15 April 2014
EU: what room for employee participation on supervisory and executive boards?
Aline Conchon, researcher at the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI)’s research department, studies the different national systems of employee participation on businesses’ boards. Whereas some...
14 April 2014
Germany: ‘partial’ vocational training, a challenge with a brilliant future ahead
In the dual training world, a new trend is taking shape: ‘partial’ training. The idea is to offer ‘lighter’ training (1-3 years) than traditional work-study training, based on funding from the...
14 April 2014
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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