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Germany: 4.3 percent wage increase at Volkswagen
It comes as no surprise that Volkswagen’s social partners aligned themselves – with a few differences – with the agreement signed in the metal industry on May 19 (see our dispatch No. 120326). ...
31 May 2012
Spain: call for indefinite strike in coal industry
The miners’ movement is growing. Mobilization in the mining industry started a few weeks ago with punctual days of strike. As interlocutors failed to respond, unions decided to increase the...
31 May 2012
Germany: government adopts action plan to speed up the construction of nurseries and increase women’s activity rate
Families Minister says this objective is realistic. In Germany, the well-known lack in childcare places, especially true in the former Länder, is considered as one of the major obstacles to...
30 May 2012
EU: Commission fosters search for balance in the reforms of the European labor market
Pensions. To stabilize budgets, the European Commission recommends safeguarding investment into research and innovation, education and energy and making social protection schemes more “viable and...
30 May 2012
Germany: nearly one in two employees gets holiday bonus
A recent survey by the WSI Institute of Economic and Social Research of the Hans-Böckler Foundation found that 46 percent of German employees get a holiday bonus (Urlaubsgeld). This bonus...
30 May 2012
Luxembourg: insurance social partners sign new collective agreement
Mobilization. While the insurance sector is doing well in the Netherlands, employees and unions don’t understand why the Association of Insurance Firms (ACA) is calling for a 50 percent cut to...
30 May 2012
Germany: court to rule on corporate managements’ right to unilaterally change the law applicable to their EWC in Visteon case
Closing request denied three times. The case opposing the European subsidiary of the American car part maker Visteon (27,000 employees total, about 13,000 in Europe) started on June 22, 2011 when...
30 May 2012
EU: draft Parliament resolution to get the Commission to adopt a framework for socially responsible restructurings
Get the European Commission to do something. This is clearly a response from the MEPs of the Parliament’ Employment Committee to the European Commission backtracking on the issue of the...
29 May 2012
EU: more than one in three national Parliaments rejects the European Commission’s proposal on the right to strike
Procedure. This procedure, included in the protocol on application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality,” an annex to the Lisbon Treaty, gives national assemblies a right of...
29 May 2012
Germany: ‘flexible quotas’ to increase the number of women on boards are about to become reality
Support from conservative MPs. After arm wrestling for months with her colleague, Ursula von der Leyen, German Employment Minister and staunch advocate of “fixed women’s quotas” for businesses’...
29 May 2012
Denmark: government announces new Act in the fall on flexible quotas for women on boards
“Our system received a very warm welcome. It was obvious for everyone that it was new on the international scene, as we found a solution that addresses the issue without forcing businesses to...
29 May 2012
Great Britain: PCS and Unite services unions are getting closer while RMT and TSSA transport unions are having a hard time taking it to the next level
Industrially, there is logic to the two unions working together where they both have members employed by the same organisations. However, this degree of overlap is relatively small, given that the...
28 May 2012
EU: Parliament adopts resolution on the improvement of legislation on equal pay between men and women
Observation. The paper reminds that recent figures – probably lower than reality – show that women earn on average 16.4 percent less than men in the EU and that the gender pay gap varies between...
28 May 2012
Belgium: parental leave to go from 3 up to 4 months on June 1st
The decree still needs to be published in the Official Journal (Moniteur Belge). The communiqué released by the services of the Minister of Employment, Monica De Coninck, the text extends...
28 May 2012
Italy: Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl, and Uilcem-Uil unions commit to present unitary platforms for the renewal of their sectoral collective agreements
Opening the season of the renewal of agreements in chemistry-pharmacy, rubber, plastic, energy and oil, and gas and water, affecting approximately 450,000 workers, the managements of the...
27 May 2012
Great Britain: gangmaster licensing authority reformed for agriculture supplying workers
What is going to change. The GLA is no longer going to be present in some sectors where the risk is low, and where the number of vulnerable workers and abuses is going down (apprenticeship...
27 May 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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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