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Great Britain: Alliance Trust, Burberry, IBM and National Grid rewarded for their gender policy
Female FTSE 100 award. Alliance Trust, the investment company, as well as Burberry, won the award for parity in their boards. Within the FTSE 100, they are the ones with most women on their boards...
6 May 2010
International: UN report prepares the ground for an international strategy on businesses and human rights
“Protect, respect and remedy” is based on three independent principles: the State’s duty to prevent human rights abuses committed by third parties, notably businesses; their responsibility to...
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5 May 2010
Germany: IG-Metall leads new offensive of German unions against temporary work
Launch a general debate to change the law. Sponsored by no less than three former Employment Ministers from the social-democratic and conservative governments of Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and...
5 May 2010
Netherlands: pensions at the heart of the electoral campaign
Increasing statutory retirement age from 65 to 67 in 2020, was already subject to many debates and a bill last year. The reform, to which populist right-wing Geert Wilders and the small Socialist...
5 May 2010
France: permanent adoption of the law guaranteeing fair pay conditions to employees affected by a redeployment procedure abroad
Identified loopholes. Article L. 1233-4 of the Labor Code provides that “the economic layoff of an employee can only accepted when all training and adjustment efforts have been made and when the...
5 May 2010
Germany: Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Bahn complete their data protection systems and turn over a new leaf on past scandals
New “Committee on Data Protection” for DB. Even though Deutsche Bahn is facing a new corruption and bribery scandal, this time affecting a subsidiary, DB International, the company announced the...
4 May 2010
Air France/KLM: renewal of the agreement on the EWC
The protocol for the group European works council of Air France KLM, renegotiated in 2006, already contained, anticipatory changes introduced by the new EWC directive. The transnational decision...
4 May 2010
Russia: new federation of manufacturing unions
The FNPR, a sectoral and social partnership union. Heir to soviet unionism, with its 27 million members – i.e. a great majority of the 46% of union members in the country – the Federation of...
4 May 2010
Air France/KLM: framework agreement to supervise the European-wide reorganization of sales agencies in airports
With the prospect of changing the role of sales agencies in airports (ATO), which will follow different modalities and rhythms, Air France KLM’s European group committee (CGE) and management think...
3 May 2010
Germany: 3rd interim employers’ federation (iGZ) signed minimum wage agreement with the German Confederation of Trade Unions
For the second year in a row, the introduction of universal minimum wage was one of the central claims of the German Confederation of Trade Unions during Labor Day demonstrations. However, since...
3 May 2010
United States: a woman at the head of the powerful SEIU union
A growing trade union. Until now, Mary Kay Henry, 52, was in charge of the organization’s health unit. She got promoted when Andrew Stern, charismatic and controversial leader of SEIU, who...
3 May 2010
Denmark: experts say nanotechnologies could be as dangerous to workers as asbestos
Booming in Denmark, nanotechnologies and nano-products is revolutionizing a wide range of industrial products and processes, from food packaging to surface treatment, to the textile, chemical...
3 May 2010
Caterpillar: unions lay the foundations for a global union network
Tense dialog with the management. 70 American, European and Japanese Caterpillar representatives met on April 28-29 under the aegis of the IMF in Echirolles, Izere, France. The aim of this meeting...
30 April 2010
Great Britain: unions set the creation of green jobs as their priority but forget the fight on working conditions
The key policy demand from the union movement upon the three major political parties in the current general election has been job creation. In the current context of unemployment rising to 2.5m...
30 April 2010
Germany: Hans Böckler foundation reveals that the European Company status isn’t used to reduce employee representativeness
134 “real” SEs. The analysis presented on April 23rd by the legal department of the Hans Böckler foundation is based on recent data (March 2010) about the adoption of the SE status in the EU since...
29 April 2010
Norway: unions want to debate the issue of support to employees caring for elderly parents during the ongoing negotiations
Worrying prospects. For several years now, all studies on the issue converge. A study carried out by the Institute for Applied International Studies of Oslo (FAFO) in 2007 showed that a little...
29 April 2010
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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