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Germany: Deutsche Bahn staff get 5% increase and extended job security
The end of extremely long negotiations. Rail social partners aren’t hiding their joy. The agreement presented yesterday, enabled by the signature, last week, of the agreement in private regional...
26 January 2011
Netherlands: employers and unions agree on collective bargaining priorities for coming years
Culture of consensus, sense of anticipation, pragmatism… the polder system isn’t dead. The evidence? The Federation of Netherlands Unions (FNV), the Federation of Christian Unions (CNV) and the...
26 January 2011
Great Britain: British Airways cabin crew vote for another strike after 13 months of conflict
75% turnout. The airline’s 10,220 cabin crew were invited to answer the question: “Are you prepared to take part in strike action?”. With 75% turning out to vote, a great majority (78.5%) voted...
25 January 2011
EU: European gas social partners hanging on European Commission’s future choices
Segmentation. Presented on November 10, 2010, this strategy should last until 2020. It notably aims to make Europe less energy-greedy, to strengthen the domestic energy market, to make consumers...
24 January 2011
United States: Barack Obama wants to review regulations
Barack Obama’s recent tribune in the wall street journal on the need to review regulations to adjust them to the 21st century is giving the business world a lot of hope. In this tribune, the...
24 January 2011
Germany: IG-Metall wants to durably add political factors to the “calculation” of collective claims
Correct growing social imbalances. In an interview published on his federation’s website, Oliver Burkhard, one of the union’s heavyweights, announced the opening of a debate within the IG-Metall...
24 January 2011
Netherlands: short-time working to end on July 1st
In total, short-time working was used for 76,000 employees in 7,800 businesses, mostly in the heavy industry (24% in steel and 17% in metalworking). Not a single file has been accepted since...
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24 January 2011
Italy: driven by Fiat, employers want to quicken the “modernization” of industrial relations
Fiat’s boosting the “modernization” of Italian industrial relations is also shaking employers up. Tomorrow and on Wednesday, Confindustria will meet with its management and then its steering...
24 January 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers’ union threatens with a strike in February to defend its status of negotiator
GDL says this is an insult to train drivers. After “the longest conflict in the rail industry,” the small train drivers’ union, GDL (34,000 members) obtained, in March 2008, the right to sign...
24 January 2011
Germany: construction union IG-BAU claims for a 5.9% wage increase
Bring eastern and western wages in line. Sign of good will or tactical move, the construction union’s wage claim is slightly below that (6%) it presented for the last collective bargaining round...
21 January 2011
Austria: real wages markedly decreased in 2010
The two studies Statistik Austria published this week confirm a trend observed in other countries, namely that, with or without the crisis, low wages are decreasing. The Austrian wage index...
21 January 2011
Great Britain: government publishes Pensions Bill 2011
This bill implements the reform enacted two years ago (Pensions Act 2008) to boost private savings, notably via automatic enrolment to professional pensions schemes. If businesses don’t create...
20 January 2011
Spain: outcry against plan to extend stores’ opening hours
When presenting his schedule of ongoing reform on January 11th, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that he would ask the country’s 17 autonomous communities “concerted action regarding the...
19 January 2011
Germany: mass rebellion from banks’ account managers against bill introducing threat of exclusion from public-sector employment
Central register and exclusion from public-sector employment. Banking social partners have declared war against a new provision the government added to the bill on protection afforded to...
19 January 2011
Belgium: social partners sign cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
Indexation and wage norm. The cross-industry agreement signed on Tuesday night provides for a wage norm 0.3% higher than inflation, i.e. a purely symbolic margin. The social partners took...
19 January 2011
Netherlands: special fund to recruit mailmen
In theory, postal firms had until January 1, 2011 to reach an agreement allowing them to recruit 80% of their staff with a labor contract, respecting the collective agreement in force. This...
19 January 2011
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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...
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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