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Spain: summary of the key measures in the Rajoy administration’s austerity package
Public sector. Nearly all public employees, regardless their legal condition (civil servants, employees under employment contracts, etc.), will suffer: (a) a salary cut affecting the 14th payment...
18 July 2012
Italy: Alenia Aermacchi (Finmeccanica) and unions sign agreement increase flexibility and result bonus
Result bonus. Massimo Masat, Fiom national coordinator for Alenia Aermacchi, pointed out that the parameters “were changed to become truly available.” Giovani Contento, Uilm national secretary...
18 July 2012
Italy: commentary of the recent labor law reform
Temporary (fixed-term) employment contracts: “without reason” for the first 12 months. Law no. 92 of June 28, 2012 has brought about significant changes to Legislative Decree 368/2001. The...
18 July 2012
Australia: two weeks’ paternity leave for fathers
Provisions supervising the right to paternity leave. From January 1, 2013 on, fathers/partners will be able to take advantage of their paternity rights within 12 months following the...
18 July 2012
Lithuania: new Lithuanian Federation of Manufacturing Unions
Long negotiations for this merger. During the negotiations before the official decision, the leaders of the Lithuanian Chemical Industrial Workers Trade Union Federation (Lietuvos chemijos...
18 July 2012
G4S : EWC agreement revised
Transnationality. The revised Agreement contains new definitions of information/consultation which reflect some of the recent changes in the European legislation and confirms the nature of the...
17 July 2012
Spain: public employees down in the street against new austerity measures
Spontaneous gatherings. These spontaneous gatherings, rather unusual in Spain, started on Friday, July 13, as soon as the reform passed. At the same time, a group of employees working at Moncloa...
17 July 2012
Estonia: collective agreements have a hard time proving they are efficient
After two studies written in 2010 and X-raying the country's social relations, the Estonian Minister of Social Affairs presented, on June 11, 2012, a new, shorter study entitled "The Role of...
16 July 2012
Italy: Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and rail CCN renewed
The final signature should be by July 20 in order to get a following from the association of rail subcontractors, Fise-Uniferr, from Legacoop-Servizi and from Confcooperative-Federlavoro. Unions...
13 July 2012
Germany: Deutsche Bahn and Federal Employment Agency sign national recruitment agreement
The DB’s personnel management is currently facing two challenges: demographic ageing (many people retiring) and the company’s international growth. At the end of 2011, DB CEO Rüdiger Grube...
13 July 2012
Ireland: home stretch for the reform of labor institutions
Sent to Parliament for consultation last week, the bill proposes merging the five existing institutions: the Employment Tribunal (an independent tripartite body in charge of conciliating...
12 July 2012
Spain: commentary of the law reforming the labor market adopted on June 28
The Law 3/2012 introduces quite a number of small amendments compared with the decree adopted in February (for the detailed commentary of the text, see our dispatch No. 120125), most of them of a...
12 July 2012
Spain: unions call for demonstration against new austerity package
New austerity package. The managing committees of the two union federations met on the 11th to analyze the new adaptation program the government presented in Parliament that same morning. The...
12 July 2012
Great Britain: Frances O’Grady, expert in union campaigning, will become the new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress in January 2013
Before joining the TUC in 1994, O’Grady worked for the TGWU union (now part of Unite) from 1989 where she worked on successful campaigns to stop the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and...
11 July 2012
Austria: 3.45 percent average wage increase in tourism and the hotel business
3.45 percent average increase. It took the social partners in the Austrian tourism industry, which employs 200,000 people, five meetings before they could agree on a pay agreement on Tuesday...
11 July 2012
France: busy social program for the new government
Form and content. Regarding form, the social conference which took place in Paris on July 9-10 at the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (Conseil économique, social et environnemental...
11 July 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