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Spain: government and unions seek difficult agreement on pensions
Talks are stuck because unions are opposed to the government’s proposal to increase the professional career until 67. However, it seems that the negotiators are determined, on both sides, to look...
12 January 2011
Austria: new “black book” of infringements to labor law sparks off controversy
In its 2010 “black book” of labor law infringements, the Chamber of Labor of Upper Austria shows that, in 2010 alone, its labor law experts gave nearly 235,000 legal advice interviews. The AK...
12 January 2011
France: employers and union define a very busy social schedule for 2011
Following several bilateral meetings between the Medef employers’ organization and the five union federations (CGT, CFDT, CGT-FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC), and after an umpteenth 4-hour meeting at the...
11 January 2011
Germany: IG-Metall supports UAW’s recruitment campaign in the American plants of German carmakers
A campaign to keep the UAW from hemorrhaging. “We’ll be very, very aggressive and willing to spend a lot of money to defend workers’ rights to organize” warned the UAW’s new leader, Bob King...
11 January 2011
Great Britain: government considers reforming employment tribunals
A “perverted” system? The heads of the largest British businesses met with Premier David Cameron on January 10th to discuss the labor law reform aiming to increase competitiveness and encourage...
10 January 2011
Denmark: Supreme Court rules that apprentices’ pay may include other wage benefits than basic pay
The Professional Training Act (erhvervsuddannelsesloven) can no longer be interpreted as it used to after the ruling issued by the supreme court of Denmark on December 6, 2010 in a case that...
10 January 2011
Germany: one in three employees in the metal industry to receive a pay raise two months early
Wide movement of early wage increases. Bosch, Audi, Volkswagen, Sachsen…, several large German businesses already announced, this summer, that they wanted to give the 2.7% wage increase...
10 January 2011
Portugal: interns to receive the same welfare cover as employees
Contributions and social protection. Portuguese interns are going to receive the same welfare cover as employees, according to a government proposal. They will be covered by the general social...
10 January 2011
Poland: ENEA S.A. unions object to EDF taking control of the company
“We maintain our negative opinion regarding the sale of participation to a company outside ENEA S.A. We believe this sale is stupid and detrimental to the company” ENEA’s eight unions* declared...
10 January 2011
EU: publication of the report on the work of the group of experts in charge of the implementation of the new EWC directive
This 70-pages-long document takes stock of the questions raised by representatives of labor administrations and of the answers it brought to ensure a shared understanding of the text and a...
10 January 2011
Great Britain: labor law amendments in January and February 2011
Amendment. Until December 31, 2010, part of employees’ salary, usually subject to taxation and social contributions, could be replaced by an amount equal to the expenses for traveling to a...
6 January 2011
Italy: with the Pomigliano company agreement, Fiat ends the first act of its strategy to question the Italian industrial relations system
After the signature of the separate agreement for the Mirafiori agreement on December 23rd (see our dispatch No. 110001), Fiat obtained, on December 29th, the signature of the Fim-Cisl, Uilm-Uil...
5 January 2011
China: novelties introduced by the social insurance law
Structure of the social security system. The Chinese social insurance system relies on three systems: an urban wage system; a system for non working urban population; and the farmers’ system. The...
5 January 2011
Germany: new measures on January 1, 2011 and key upcoming debates
Key changes on January 1, 2011.
5 January 2011
Morocco: legal system more transparent and modern, yet corruption continues
This accusation portal is the latest initiative developed by the Moroccan employers’ organization to fight against the plague of corruption. Mustapha Moulay, in charge of the CGEM’s public...
4 January 2011
Luxembourg: two recovery agreements
Index. Employers, who terminated the agreement signed with unions on this matter, finally gave up the issue of the social index. Thus, in keeping with the bipartite agreement negotiated with the...
4 January 2011
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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
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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