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Spain: early retirement more expensive for businesses making profit
Labor Minister Valeriano Gomez wants to ask businesses that cut staffing via early retirement to bear the cost of unemployment benefits, usually covered by public institutions. The government’s...
27 April 2011
Spain: Iberdrola to sign agreement with unions to link wage increases with productivity
This new reference should replace the clause on the systematic review of wages in relation to inflation and the price index. It will be added to the new collective agreement, currently in the...
26 April 2011
Germany: the length of sick leaves for psychological reasons was multiplied by 9 since 2004
From 8.1 to 72.3 days of sick leave. The scientific institute (Wido) of the AOK – the largest health insurance fund in Germany with nearly 19 million members – assessed the sick leaves of 10.1...
26 April 2011
EU : interview of Romuald Jagodzinski, ETUI researcher and coordinator of the 2011 edition of Benchmarking Working Europe, the assessment carried out by the union institute on the EU 2020 Strategy
Romuald Jagodzinski. No, the overall picture seems to be that Europe has learnt little from the crisis. In general we observe a shift from the logic of how to prevent the next crisis to come...
26 April 2011
United States: Boeing could not be able to open its new plant in South Carolina because of antiunion behavior
The NLRB, which arbitrates conflicts between unions and businesses, is blaming Boeing. Legal expert Lafe Solomon filed a complaint against the aircraft manufacturer, accusing the company of...
22 April 2011
Italy: Fiom wins first appeal against the application of the 2009 separate agreement on the metal CCN
While the Fiom presented its appeal to the Turin court against Fiat for “antiunion behavior” in the procedure used for the Pomigliano and Mirafiori newcos, the CGIL’s metalworkers’ federation won...
20 April 2011
United States: National Labor Relations Board reminds employees’ rights regarding social media
Facebook, Twitter, blogs and other e-novelties didn’t exist in 1935 when the agency was created. However, NLRB representatives think they are perfectly able to deal with this new issue. Last...
20 April 2011
Germany: two temporary employers’ organizations merge before decisive negotiations on equal pay
Employers’ organizations in a hurry. The BZA and AMP implemented the planned merger mentioned last autumn (see our dispatch No. 100692). The new federation is located in Berlin and called the...
20 April 2011
EU: Peter Scherrer, general secretary of the European Metalworkers’ Federation, says there is “A widening gap between industry-based countries and the others”
Peter Scherrer. No, on the contrary, there is much more of a need for the industry. It can help solve the big problems we are facing in the future with energy, raw materials, waste management and...
20 April 2011
Portugal: strike notice suspended in chain stores and negotiations starting up
Conciliation. The CESP, union of trade, service and office workers, suspended the strike notice presented for the Easter period, because negotiations with employers reopened. A first...
19 April 2011
Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the collective agreement of the Poste Italiane
After “long and difficult negotiations” during which, according to unions, only “unity and homogeneity” helped overcome “unjustified rigidity” from the group’s management, SLP-Cisl, SLC-CGIL...
19 April 2011
Germany: IG-Metall wants to limit appeal to temporary work as in Thuringia
Combining economic subsidies and volume of temporary employment. On Wednesday, April 13th, the IG-Metall Frankfurt and its general secretary, Armin Schild, met with the Minister of Economic...
19 April 2011
EU: metal social partners eager to know more about the Commission’s industrial strategy
Risk of transverse approach. First, the European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) for unions and the Council of European Employers of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-Based Industries (CEEMET)...
19 April 2011
Italy: ThyssenKrupp CEO sentenced to 16.5 years in prison for murder after the fire in the Turin establishment in 2007
After an investigation completed in record time, the case referred to the assize court with, for the first time in the case of a deadly industrial accident, murder charges for the highest-ranking...
18 April 2011
Netherlands: mandatory registration for all temporary agencies
The Netherlands’ 2,300 temporary work agencies have until January 1, 2012 to enroll with the trade register (Handelregister). For the moment, only 35% have registered. The government wants to...
18 April 2011
Spain: agreement on collective bargaining reform stuck on the fight against absenteeism and the creation of a youth contract
The signature of the social partners’ agreement on the reform of collective bargaining is running a little late. So far, the debate between the social partners focused on the issue of improving...
18 April 2011
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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