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Spain: Renault unions and management sign flexibility agreement hoping to create 1,300 jobs
Renault management and the three majority unions - UGT, Workers' Commissions (CCOO) and the Confederation of Managers and Professionals (CCP) - signed an agreement which should lead, on Tuesday...
12 November 2012
Germany: Bundestag agrees to highly controversial introduction of subsidy for families raising infants at home
Temporarily putting an end to a controversy which has been dividing Germany for years, the Bundestag adopted, today November 9, with the votes from the conservative (CDU/CSU) and liberal (FDP)...
9 November 2012
EU: the right to annual leave for workers whose working time was reduced because of a social plan can be calculated based on the prorata temporis rule
In a decree published yesterday, November 8, the European Court of Justice ruled that Community law allows reducing the annual paid leave of employees whose working time was shortened because of a...
8 November 2012
Austria: Magna, the car part manufacturer, is preparing to outsource part of its operations to be covered by “more advantageous” collective agreements
After trying, in vain, to bargain with unions for extraordinary exceptions to the sector's collective agreements, Magna, the Austrian-canadian car part maker which employs 13,000 people in Austria...
8 November 2012
Denmark: young people work part-time more than full-time
Ugebrevet A4, the newspaper of the LO union confederation, did an issue on the situation of the labor market for young Danish people. It shows that full-time contracts are becoming as scarce as...
8 November 2012
Greece: Parliament adopts new austerity measures
With a 3-vote majority (when the government coalition has a lot more MPs), the Greek Parliament voted the 3rd Memorandum on Wednesday at midnight. It is characterized by drastic rigor, increasing...
8 November 2012
United States: unions’ political agenda for Barack Obama’s second term
Following Barack Obama's reelection, the American union movement claimed credit for Obama's victory over the Republican Party and launched campaigns defending several social advantages before the...
8 November 2012
Germany: new pay deal in West German textile and clothing
The IG-Metall metalworkers' union and the employers' organization for the West German textile and clothing industry have been bargaining since October 17 for the renewal of the collective...
7 November 2012
Germany: after the metal, chemistry and rail industries, the textile and wood industries are giving agency workers “sectoral bonuses”
On November 1, two collective agreements came into force, introducing for the first time a "system of sectoral bonuses" in the metal and chemical industries. Four days later, two similar...
6 November 2012
Great Britain: new forms of collective dispute
The personnel and human resource managers' professional association, the Chartered Institute of Professional Development (CIPD), has released a report called "Managing Employee Relations in...
5 November 2012
Ireland: government is preparing two recruitment support programs
When presenting the 2013 budget, the Irish government should announce two possible options to incentivize employers to hold onto interns and long-term jobseekers. (Ref. 120649)
5 November 2012
France: negotiations on securing employment, a crash test for the social dialogue reform method
With the success of the "generation" employment contract, the government goes on promoting its reform method through social dialogue. However, the negotiations on employment security could be much...
5 November 2012
Denmark: government plans to take the fight against social dumping further
The interministerial committee set up by the government to come up with measures against social dumping presented its report last week. The government is going to rely on it to take action...
1 November 2012
United States: Boeing condemned for violating union rights in North Carolina
The grounds for this sanction? On April 10, a worker at Boeing’s Charleston plant campaigning for the IAM to organize the company was called in by the HR manager after he talked about the union...
1 November 2012
Switzerland: a subsidiary of Bilfinger Berger, Germany’s second largest construction firm, banned from operating in Switzerland for two years because of wage dumping
Accused of underpaying employees at a site in Basel, Bilfinger Berger Spezialtiefbau GmBH, a subsidiary of the German construction firm Bilfinger Berger, is now banned from construction sites and...
31 October 2012
Great Britain: businesses violating health and safety regulations will have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s investigation expenses back
The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012 came into force on October 1, 2012 and imposes that businesses that break health and safety regulations are liable for recovery of HSE's related...
31 October 2012
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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