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EU: social partners and Commission agree to promote cooperation in terms of education and training policies
At their meeting on October 16, the social partners (ETUC – BUSINESSEUROPE – CEEP – UEAPME) and Commissioner Vassiliou, in charge of education and culture, decided to strengthen cooperation in the...
24 October 2013
Italy: social partners in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry sign framework agreement on ‘high training’ apprenticeship in the sector
On October 8, the Federchimica and Farmindustria employers’ organizations signed a framework agreement with the Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions to regulate the “high training and...
24 October 2013
United States: the fight for fair union vote at Nissan Canton (Mississippi) on a quest for international solidarity
Four came to Paris to raise public awareness to the situation of Nissan’s workers in the Canton plant, Mississippi. In two weeks, they will go to Sao Paulo (Brazil) to build up more solidarity. ...
23 October 2013
Germany: IG BCE chemistry unions wants a 5.5 percent wage increase for the sector’s 550,000 employees
Four days after the end of its convention, the IG BCE chemistry union revealed, on October 22, its wage claims for the collective negotiations that will start at regional level on December 2 in...
23 October 2013
EU: social priorities of the European Commission’s Work Program 2014
Each year, the European Commission’s Work Program defines the Executive’s priorities. For this last and short year of its term, the European Commission plans to focus on mobility on the European...
23 October 2013
Great Britain: apprenticeship boom
The Cameron administration’s ‘attraction operation’ to bring apprenticeship back to the front of the stage seems to be working. 858,900 people chose this path in 2012/13, according to the latest...
23 October 2013
Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions call for 4-hour national strike against Stability Act
After the 24-hour strike organized by the independent unions, it is now the three big Italian union confederations’ turn to call for a strike against the planned Stability Act. But their strike...
23 October 2013
Germany: for the first time, employers and unions negotiate minimum wage in the meat industry
It’s a first. On Tuesday, October 22, the German Food Industry Association (VDEW) and the Food, Beverages and Catering union (NGG) opened talks to adopt a collective agreement introducing, for...
23 October 2013
Great Britain: unions and management outdo each other in the conflict between Ineos and Unite at the Grangemouth plant, Scotland
A long running dispute over an inquiry into alleged misuse of company facilities (email) by a Unite-affiliated worker at the Ineos oil and petro-chemical processing plant in Grangemouth, Scotland...
22 October 2013
France: PSA Peugeot Citroën signs competitiveness agreement
The FO, CFE-CGC and CFTC unions officially announced their intention to sign the agreement on the “new social contract” negotiated with the carmaker’s management. This deal, which the company...
22 October 2013
EU: historical free trade agreement with Canada, a prelude to trade agreements with the US, Japan and China
On Friday, October 18, the European Union and Canada signed a major free-trade agreement, the first of this kind between the EU and another G8 country. This “Comprehensive Economic and Trade...
22 October 2013
Sweden: Finansförbundet, the banking and finance union, terminates the sector’s collective agreement
Finansförbundet, the banking and finance workers’ union, had been thinking about it for a while. It made the decision and announced it on September 30, 2013: the union, which represents 29,000...
22 October 2013
Italy: organizers of the “two day” mobilization of independent unions against austerity say it was a “complete success”
Called by the independent unions (USB, Confederazione Cobas, Or.s.a. Scuola Università e Ricerca, Sindacato Siae, Cub, Usi and Unicobas), the general 24-hour strike against austerity policies...
22 October 2013
Spain: Constitutional Court recognizes firms’ right to monitor employees’ emails
Controlling an employee’s electronic correspondence does not breach his/her right to privacy. With this ruling, the Constitutional Court is wandering from the existing jurisprudence, which...
21 October 2013
EU: European social partners in European shipbuilding and ship maintenance issue joint statement on social standards in the sector
On October 14, the social partners in the European sectoral social dialogue committee for the shipbuilding and ship maintenance industry adopted a joint statement on social standards. (Ref. ...
21 October 2013
Germany: economic research institutes warn that introducing universal minimum wage would have subversive effects
While the CDU/CSU conservative party and SPD social-democratic party announced, on October 17 after intense preliminary discussions, their will to officially launch, on October 23, talks on the...
21 October 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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Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
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France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
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24 September 2026
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Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
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7 September 2026