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Germany: crisis agreement for 20,000 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe employees
On Wednesday, September 18, the IG-Metall’s Collective Agreements Commission approved the crisis agreement negotiated in mid-September between ThyssenKrupp’s management and the union. It offers...
19 September 2013
Luxembourg: agreement on moral harassment in the banking industry
On September 17, banking unions in Luxembourg (ALEBA, OGB-L and LCGB-SESF) signed, with the banking employers’ organization (ABBL), an agreement on moral harassment. It transposes the 2009...
19 September 2013
France: Council of Ministers adopts pension reform bill
In order to find the €20.7 billion it will need by 2020 to pay for pensions, the French government has decided to do another pension reform, amending old-age contributions and the duration of...
18 September 2013
Denmark: Danish Crown workers reject the agreement providing for the payment of part of their salary to an investment company to revive pig farming and maintain employment in the industry
The proposal to invest part of the salary to improve pig farming in the next 4 years, to keep Danish Crown’s slaughterhouses in the country from closing, failed to convince a majority of...
18 September 2013
Germany: three-year pay deal in the temporary work industry
On September 17, the social partners in the temporary work industry, a sector which currently employs, in average, 800,000 people a year, signed a collective agreement on pay. Until December 31...
18 September 2013
Belgium: new pay freeze controversy
By deciding to freeze pay (outside indexation and scale increases), the government thought it had effectively prepared the ground to put together the notorious “competitiveness pact” the Federal...
18 September 2013
Germany: IG-Metall union and Meyer Werft, the shipbuilder, sign new collective agreement on subcontractors’ working conditions
Approximately two months after two Romanian workers died in a fire, the IG Metall Küste (coastal federation) and the German shipbuilder Meyer Werft announced, on September 16, that they signed...
17 September 2013
Italy: banking employers’ organization, Abi, terminates national collective agreement and unions prepare for general strike
On September 16, ten months early, Abi officially let the Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, UGL-Credito and Uilca unions that it terminated the national collective agreement in...
17 September 2013
Sickness presenteeism: a rampant phenomenon in industrialized countries
Sickness presenteeism – employees who go to work when they are sick – is a reality heads of businesses know little of in western countries. Yet it’s real, as real as absenteeism, and can be...
17 September 2013
Germany: Ministry of Employment, employers and unions commit to fight stress at work together
After bargaining for a year and a half within the framework of the “Joint Occupational Safety and Health Strategy (GDA),” the German Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, the BDA employers’...
17 September 2013
European Works Council: comparative study of three agreements in the transportation industry
Three transportation firms signed an EWC agreement in 2012 in order to adjust their structure to the new EWC Directive, 2009/38: UPS, British Airways and Kuehne + Nagel (K + N). Two of them are...
16 September 2013
EU: Parliament invites European Commission to consider whether an optional European legal framework for transnational company agreements would be useful
On September 12, the European Parliament adopted the draft report entitled, “Cross-border collective bargaining and transnational social dialogue.” This own-initiative report calls on the...
16 September 2013
United States: AFL-CIO union opens up to other civil society organizations to recover some ground
The last AFL-CIO convention last week in Los Angeles should be the start of a redefinition. Historically limited by legal restrictions, having a hard time diversify, facing sustained assaults...
16 September 2013
Japan: collective bargaining is getting weaker
In a context of economic crisis where the traditional practice of “lifelong” employment is being questioned, along with the remuneration scheme based on seniority, maintained until the late 90s...
16 September 2013
Great Britain: Wales takes measures against blacklisting in construction
The Welsh Assembly Government, the devolved government for Wales, has announced that public sector bodies in Wales are now permitted how to exclude companies which blacklist when recruiting staff...
13 September 2013
Italy: wood and furniture social partners renew national collective agreement
On September 11, in Milan, the FederlegnoArredo employers’ organization and the Fillea CGIL Filca-Cisl and Feneal-Uil unions signed an agreement renewing the national collective agreement (CCN) in...
13 September 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