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EU: Commission presents best practices guide on the anticipation of change and restructuring
Today, December 13, the European Commission released a communication on a quality framework for anticipation of Change and Restructuring (QFR). This is the long-awaited answer to the Parliament’s...
13 December 2013
Great Britain: key labor law changes in 2014
For flexibility for employers when a company is sold or the possibility for employees to request flexible working… Planet Labor is presenting labor law measures that will come to force in the UK...
13 December 2013
EU: refusal to award employees who contract a civil union with a same-sex person a conventional advantage awarded to those who get married can be discriminatory
In a decree rendered on December 12, the European Court of Justice declared that the provision of a collective agreement excluding same-sex partners who have entered into a civil union from the...
13 December 2013
Italy: Alenia Aermacchi strikes deal with unions on new hours system in aviation industry
On November 14, Alenia Aermacchi signed, with the Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions and the employee representatives of its Grottaglie undertaking (Taranto), an agreement on the organization of labor that...
13 December 2013
Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway and social partners sign agreement preventing social dumping
On December 10, Metroselskabet signed a partnership agreement with union and employers’ organizations to improve joint actions against social dumping, to that the sites comply with the country’s...
12 December 2013
Germany: the number of apprenticeship contracts reaches another record level in the chemical industry
On December 11, the IG BCE union and the sector’s employers’ organization, BAVC, gave a unanimously positive report of their collective agreement on apprenticeship, signed in 2003 and renewed...
12 December 2013
Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules
Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...
12 December 2013
EU: Parliament and Council reach agreement preserving supplementary pension rights for migrant workers
The European Parliament and Council of Ministers agreed on regulations allowing European workers settling in another EU country to preserve their occupational pension rights. The new law aims to...
11 December 2013
Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement
After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...
11 December 2013
Germany: Federal Labor Court rules agency workers aren’t systematically entitled to a employment contract, even if they perform an assignment that isn’t “temporary”
In a long-awaited decree rendered on December 10, the Federal Labor Court (BAG) gave satisfaction to an employer who refused to recruit a temporary worker assigned to the company for several...
11 December 2013
Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry
On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...
11 December 2013
Slovakia: new rules extending application of higher-level collective agreements
A controversial amendment to the collective bargaining act overcame the President’s veto and is going into force on January 1, 2014. The law will now provide for the possibility for a...
10 December 2013
EU: interview of Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), on social dumping
Following the agreement reached by the Council of EU Ministers on posted workers, Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), is...
10 December 2013
Great Britain: groundbreaking deal in working conditions and job security at the now privatised postal operator, Royal Mail
The now privatised Royal Mail has agreed in principle a ground-breaking new agreement on terms and conditions of employment with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for the company’s 139,000...
10 December 2013
Belgium: draft social agreement on the restructuring of ArcelorMittal’s Liege sites
After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains...
10 December 2013
EU: snatched compromise on the charged issue of “posted workers”
After a last battle on the proposal concerning the implementation of the posted workers directive (96/71/EC), the 28 Ministers of Labor managed to break the deadlock, during their meeting on...
10 December 2013
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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