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Austria: metal employers offer a 2.8 percent wage increase along with a working time increase
“Employers are not taking us seriously. We can’t bargain like this. They offer a wage increase if we make compromises on other points. It’s like they’re giving us €100 and taking €50” Rainer...
8 October 2012
Spain: unions reject new prerogatives of the National Consultation Committee on Collective Agreements
Consultation Committee becomes decision-making body. The government has given the National Consultation Committee on Collective Agreements (CCNCC) a new role in a Royal Decree published on...
8 October 2012
Austria: trade employers want “individual” labor at the center of collective bargaining
October 24 will be the start of the renegotiation process for the collective agreements in the trade industry, which employs 570,000 people - the biggest collective negotiations in Austria...
5 October 2012
Mexico: labor law reform adds labor market flexibility crystallizes discontent
Union democratization cut from the reform. There were massive demonstrations in Mexico City and other large cities on Tuesday, October 2, answering the call by the trade unions and student...
5 October 2012
International: CIETT temporary employers’ federation responds to IndustriAll’s report putting temporary work in question
Confusion. As a response to the report published on October 2 (see our dispatch No. 120579), CIETT says that the share of temporary agency work (TAW) among the working population is much lower...
5 October 2012
Portugal: CGTP calls for general strike
The Portuguese government is suspending the reform of the social contributions system. The plan to cut employers' contributions is maintained but the government wants "extensive dialogue with the...
4 October 2012
EU: European Action Day for Industry on October 8-12 under the aegis of IndustriAll Europe
"Bring Decency Back to Work! - European industrial workers are mobilizing for a change of direction." This is the banner under which the European industry federation, IndustriAll, is organizing...
4 October 2012
Great Britain: Unite develops ‘fair share agreements’ in spite of the legal uncertainty surrounding them
The most obvious benefit the free riders receive without pay unions subscriptions are pay rises resulting from collective bargaining because employers under law are not permitted to discriminate...
4 October 2012
International: IndustriAll global union publishes report/manifesto against agency labor in preparation for the World Day for Decent Work on October 7
Jenny Holdcroft. Agency work has exploded way beyond what it was originally conceived to do, namely replacing workers on a temporary basis according to temporary needs. Instead what we are seeing...
3 October 2012
EU: extractive industry social partners sign joint statement on health and safety at work
At the meeting of the sectoral social dialogue committee of the extractive industry, the sector's social partners, namely IndustriAll Europe for unions and Euromines, Eurocoal, IMA Europe...
3 October 2012
Netherlands: unions accept liberal/labor coalition agreement
The Dutch Labor Federation (FNV) threatened with a general strike to lobby the Mark Rutte's outgoing liberal administration, which now has to work with the labor party. However, it seems that the...
3 October 2012
Spain: Inditex enforces voluntary leave transfer program in its last Spanish plants
Stopping production. The program comes as Inditex released first 2012 quarter results with increasing sales in Asia, but the Spanish market, badly hit by the crisis, is loosing in importance and...
3 October 2012
United States: Boeing and SPEEA union back around the bargaining table
Boeing's management and the representatives of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) are back around the bargaining table after the crushing defeat of the first...
3 October 2012
Sweden: Handels launches new union strategy for chain stores
Ineffective practice. Traditionally, in chain stores, negotiations and union activities take place at local level, separately in each store, and not at central level like big groups (Ikea...
2 October 2012
Netherlands: FNV calls for 2.5 percent wage increase
The largest union in the Netherlands is calling for a 2.5 percent wage increase in 2013. This is the same level as in 2012, in spite of the crisis and as the negotiations in 2012 only led to an...
1 October 2012
Great Britain: enforcement of the reform forcing employees and employers to enroll into a workplace pension
The "auto-enrolment" reform is coming into force today for the biggest firms. With this gradual reform, which will last for six years, up to 10 million workers in the private sector will be...
1 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