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Great Britain: report on pay deals in the British auto industry
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), Bentley Motors, Honda, Ford and BMW - 5 pay negotiations, 5 different situations. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and...
15 October 2012
EU: Commission moves to develop innovative manufacturing sectors
Funding. The communication published last Wednesday explains that, “At a time when financial problems persist, Europe needs its real economy more than ever to underpin the recovery of economic...
12 October 2012
Germany: manufacturing social partners ask the government reintroduce short-time working
The economic slowdown in Germany is becoming important enough that the sector's social partners are asking the government to quickly reintroduce short-time working measures. Between August and...
12 October 2012
Great Britain: government moves to free employers from liability for third-party harassment
In May, the British government said that this provision of the Equality Act, voted two years ago (see our dispatch No. 100592), was “impractical” and prepared the ground by launching a...
11 October 2012
Great Britain: strikes are spreading in transportation and logistics
Very few companies now distribute their own goods and products through their own fleet of vehicles. Instead, these services are sub-contracted out to dedicated providers after a process of...
11 October 2012
United States: Walmart faces multiple strikes and the threat of a strike on Black Friday
“Workers from stores throughout the Dallas-area (…) from stores in Miami, the DC-area, Sacramento, Southern California and the Bay-area are (…) walking off the job” announced, on October 10...
11 October 2012
Sweden: new manufacturing employers’ organization
On September 19, employers in the manufacturing industry announced the creation of a new employers' organization, "industriarbetsgivarna" (meaning manufacturing employers), presenting itself as an...
10 October 2012
Italy: Eni signs an agreement with the social partners and the Basilicate region for the “site convention” of the peninsula’s key oil extraction center
Promoting initiatives in the sector. Eni commits itself to carry on investing in the region, notably by doing the 5th gas processing station at the Centro Olio Val d’Agri (COVA) center, and 9...
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10 October 2012
Denmark: job rotation, a tool to integrate jobseekers on the labor market
Job rotation, a system which allows businesses to recruit jobseekers to replace employees on training, is boosting the reinstatement of 8 in 10 jobseekers who take part, according to a study...
10 October 2012
United States: Bombardier aircraft manufacturer on strike
Since October 8, over 800 employees have been on strike at Bombardier, the American subsidiary of the Canadian aircraft manufacturer, in Wichita, Kansas. This strike is the result of failed pay...
10 October 2012
Austria: 190,000 heating engineers, assembly operators and mechatronics engineers get an average 3.2 percent increase
The social partners in the "Metallgewerbe" industry, which represents 43,000 SMEs and nearly 190,000 employees (heating engineers, assembly operators, mechatronics engineers...) signed a wage...
10 October 2012
Sweden: new bill on temporary work and amendment of the Posting Act to improve equal treatment for workers leased by a foreign agency
A law protecting temporary workers. “The temporary industry is a major component of the Swedish labor market. The bill increases security for agency workers while allowing the sector’s...
9 October 2012
EU: Council of Ministers adopts position on the protection of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields
On October 4, the Employment and Social Policy Council adopted a general approach amending Directive 2004/40 on the protection of workers exposed to electromagnetic fields. The Council's...
9 October 2012
EU: how is employee participation doing at European level?
Udo Rehfelt. I think it would be useful to remind that, as this special issue points out, these three forms of employee participation have a common ideational and historical link – the European...
8 October 2012
Great Britain: Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs invites employees to give up their rights in exchange for free shares
George Osborne wants employees to "become owners" of their company. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to foster a new type of industrial relations where employees give up part of their...
8 October 2012
Italy: decree on emergency measures for innovation and growth gives startups flexible recruitment options
Italy should be “a place where innovation is a structural factor of sustainable growth and higher corporate competitiveness.” This is the aim of the “Growth 2.0” decree approved by the Council of...
8 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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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