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Bangladesh: agreement on standard security rules for the approximately 4,000 textile plants subcontracting for western brands and businesses
On November 21, an agreement was reached on minimum security standards (notably fire prevention systems and electric systems) to check when assessing buildings where the approximately 4,000...
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25 November 2013
Finance sector workers throughout the world have suffered a lot in recent years, according to a report by UNI Finance Global
Nearly 200,000 jobs lost in the financial sector throughout the world these past two years. 80 percent of the sector’s unions in Europe reporting health issues for their members. These are two...
22 November 2013
EU: European Parliament adopts amendments to the draft directive on the objective of 40 percent of women on the boards of listed companies by 2020
On Wednesday, November 20, the European Parliament adopted its version of the proposed directive introducing the obligation for businesses to come up with recruitment and selection procedures to...
22 November 2013
Belgium: regulations on psychosocial risks improved
Two bills on the improvement of the prevention of psychosocial risks are currently being discussed at the House of Representatives. The key novelties concern the definition of these risks and...
22 November 2013
CSR is gaining ground in Africa
Under pressure from international partners, environment lobby groups and organizations defending human rights, and with the rise of a middle class representing nearly 300 million consumers, more...
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21 November 2013
Germany: Angela Merkel confirms statutory minimum wage
Yesterday, November 21, the Chancellor confirmed, more clearly than ever, that Germany was going to adopt statutory minimum wage. This concession, obtained following friction with the...
21 November 2013
Great Britain: businesses with employee ownership will have their stock index
Improving employee ownership is one of the leitmotivs of the Cameron team, which recently announced the creation of a tailor-made stock index to identify businesses where at least 3 percent of...
21 November 2013
CSR in 200 Indian firms under the microscope
Since August 2013, India has been one of the only countries in the world to impose that large businesses dedicate 2 percent of their net earnings to responsible investments. In a survey published...
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21 November 2013
Spain: new program promotes women’s access to companies’ top
40 executive women were chosen by their company to follow a training cycle and be promoted faster in order to move faster towards effective and real equal opportunities. This initiative, called...
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21 November 2013
EU: in 2014/15, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) Campaign will tackle stress and psychosocial risks
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (Bilbao) is the EU’s body in charge of gathering, analyzing and spreading information on these issues to meet the stakeholders’ needs in the field...
21 November 2013
EU: soon, permanent adoption of the Erasmus+ European exchange program
On Tuesday, November 19, the European Parliament adopted the European Union’s program on education and training, which received strong consensus: “do everything to avoid scarifying this...
20 November 2013
Brazil: OAS construction group to pay a BRL 15 million fine for slavery
OAS, the public construction company, one of the biggest in the country, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) for “maintaining 150 workers in a situation nearing...
20 November 2013
Australia: government wants to set up independent monitoring organization for unions and employers’ organizations
Following the latest scandals of financial embezzlement in some organizations, the Australian government wants to plan ahead. It wants to set up an independent committee in charge of monitoring...
20 November 2013
Sweden: new recruitment contract for apprentices
In Sweden, apprenticeship isn’t working as well as the government would hope, according to the National Agency for Education (Skolverket). That’s why the government presented, on November 5, a...
20 November 2013
Luxembourg: first results of the social election
On November 13, employees elected their representatives to the Chamber of Employees (CSL) and employee representation structures at company level. The first report shows that the union landscape...
19 November 2013
Germany: one in three workers in the auto, machine-tool and metal industry is allegedly agency workers or has a service provision contract, according to the IG-Metall
According to the IG-Metall, approximately 1 million of the 3.6 million working in the metal, auto, electronics and machine-tool industry are either agency workers or employed with a service...
19 November 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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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