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Netherlands: negotiations open in the basic metal industry
Negotiations for the new collective agreement started on February 16th in basic metalworking, under the sign of “increasingly worsening deterioration” said Jan Berghuis, negotiator for the...
18 February 2011
Italy: CGIL’s federation of Commerce, Filcams, launches campaign to regulate work on legal holidays
Increasingly, trade workers have to work on Sunday and legal holidays to meet the demand from retailing, small trades, towns, consumers, to the detriment of laws and collective agreements...
17 February 2011
Germany: collective bargaining fails again at Deutsche Telekom, leading to three weeks of warning strikes
“It’s not possible that, until 2012, shareholders will receive annual dividends amounting to €3.4bn while the people who create this wealth leave empty-handed” declared Harald Dressler, one of...
17 February 2011
Germany: working time reduction to care for dependent people subject to company’s consent
Therefore, Kristina Schröder presented a ‘light’ bill on the reduction of working time to care for a dependent family member (Familienpflegeteilzeit), ratified by the members of the coalition in...
17 February 2011
Italy:Uilm held first “cross-territory” national assembly
With the slogan, “What have we done and what remains to be done?”, the Uilm gathered, on February 14-15 in Rome, nearly 200 local union leaders from all Italian provinces as well as the...
16 February 2011
Austria: great internal retraining program in Austrian railway is having a hard time taking off
Trim administration and organize transfers. The issue of personnel costs, i.e. 43% of total exploitation costs, is one of the ÖBB’s numerous problems and forces the public company, every year, to...
16 February 2011
Belgium: mediation on 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement failed
Employers’ support. Will the Belgian government override the rejection of the FGTB, second largest union in the country? The day of consultation on Monday, February 14th (see our dispatch No. ...
16 February 2011
Denmark: labor inspectorate suspended the activity of 85% of foreign businesses controlled last year
“The danger observed was such that nobody was allowed to work again until the site was safer” Hasse Mortensen, lead inspector at the Labor Inspectorate, told Ugebrevet A4, the LO union’s weekly...
16 February 2011
Germany: one plant at a time, Continental Automotive negotiates “derogatory agreements” way below the sectoral collective agreement
Continental is doing better… The official communication of Continental Automotive is trying to look on the bright side. Since the beginning of the year, Continental has been multiplying...
15 February 2011
United States: interview of Wilma Liebman, chairman of the National Labor Relations Board
Wilma Liebman. The National Labor Relations Board is a federal government agency created by statute, the National Labor Relations Act, which was first enacted by Congress in 1935. It was amended...
15 February 2011
Denmark: flexicurity system weakened by recent reforms
Highly mobile employees, secured income while unemployed and the certainty of finding a new job are the key elements of the Danish flexicurity system, based on a system of regulation of the labor...
15 February 2011
Spain: first election at Seat after controversial competitiveness agreement of 2009 strengthens UGT union
On February 10th, 12,781 employees were called to elect 119 representatives from the five sites of Martorell (Zona Franca) and El Prat (Llobregat), in the outskirts of Barcelona. UGT is more...
15 February 2011
Belgium: mediation on the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement
Six years ago, when the FGTB rejected the 2005-2006 draft cross-industry agreement, the government enforced it anyway. This time around, the situation is somewhat different. First, the socialist...
14 February 2011
Great Britain: the use of injunctions by the employers to prevent strikes is easier
In this time, various groups like the Confederation of British Industry, the Policy Exchange rightwing thinktank and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development have all called for the...
14 February 2011
Spain: Council of Ministers adopts action plan for employment
Here are the key points of the plan:
14 February 2011
Italy: gas and water social partners sign unitary agreement for the renewal of the sector’s CCN
After two general sectoral strikes and over 13 months of “exhausting” negotiations, yesterday February 10th, Anfida, Anigas, Assogas, Federestrattiva, Confindustria-Energia, Federutility for...
11 February 2011
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
5 March 2026
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
2 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026