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Italy: 25th national Fiom-CGIL Congress ends with division
“Democracy based on labor.” This was the title, based on article 1 of the Italian constitution, of the 25th Congress of the Fiom, organized in Montesilvano (Pescara), on April 14-16. It was the...
19 April 2010
Romania: emergency ordinance to reform sick leaves and toughen controls
Home monitoring. With this strong reform of sick leave, which will come into force in May, the Romanian government has opened the hunting season against sick people. Health Minister Cseke Attila...
19 April 2010
Germany: Verdi allowed to enter Lidl subsidiaries to recruit members
Two discussions a month without management supervision. In terms of staff management, Lidl, second largest discounter in Germany after Aldi, seems like the sector’s “black sheep” for spying on its...
16 April 2010
Italy: 4th SLC-CGIL national congress characterized by job cuts at Telecom Italia and the Italian Post
The 433 delegates representing the union’s 97,000 members elected their new management (with 20% of young and 39% of women), which re-elected the outgoing general secretary, Emilio Miceli.
16 April 2010
Deutsche Telekom: American and German telecom unions accuse T-Mobile USA of “massively overawing” employees trying to unionize
Climate of fear or malicious campaign? “Throughout the world, Deutsche Telekom respects workers’ rights and is a loyal interlocutor for all elected employee representation structures” declared...
16 April 2010
Italy: 3rd national congress of the CGIL’s “atypical” workers’ federation, Nidil
The 3rd national congress of Nidil (acronym for Nuove Indentità di Lavoro – New Labor Identities), organized, on April 8-9 in Perugia, ended with the re-election of the outgoing general secretary...
15 April 2010
Germany: more and more companies take on a foreign legal form
Businesses avoiding co-management regulations. Sebastian Sick, specialized in economic law at the Hans-Böckler Foundation and author of the study, says that, up to the spring 2006, there were, in...
15 April 2010
Romania: new website promoting continuous education
Insufficient continuous learning. 1.3% of Romanian employees aged 25-64 have already enjoyed continuous education. To bring this number up and come closer to the European average (around 11%), the...
15 April 2010
Belgium: no alcohol or drugs in businesses
13% of workers under the influence of alcohol. So far, the only legal system to fight against drug and alcohol consumption at work dated from before world war two. It was article 99 of the general...
15 April 2010
Italy: 9th Congress of the Filt, the CGIL’s transportation federation
The 9th congress of the Filt, the CGIL’s transportation federation, which also celebrated its 30th birthday on that occasion, took place in Turin on April 7-9. The 488 representatives (30% of...
14 April 2010
The Netherlands : Sandd and Selekt Mail lost their appeal against the anti-dumping social measures in the postal sector
Sandd and Selekt Mail took the Government to Court, mentioning that they would go bankrupt if they had to give labour contracts to their workers and to pay them a minimum wage. Frank Heemskerk...
14 April 2010
Great-Britain: adoption of the Bribery Act
New offences. The Bribery Act, based on the Law Commission recommendations (the statutory independent body in charge of reforming the British law), has overhauled "fragmented and complex...
13 April 2010
Thales: European framework agreement on the annual activity discussion
Opposition from the French CGT. This agreement applies to managers and employees inside the scope of the EWC (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway...
13 April 2010
Italy: constitutive congress of the CGIL’s chemistry, energy and textile workers’ federation, Filctem
Under the slogan “based on labor,” (which echoes article 1 of the Italian constitution, “a democratic republic based on labor”) the national constitutive congress of the Filctem, born from the...
13 April 2010
Bolivia: new Labor Code directly draws from workers and social partners’ proposals
The reform of Bolivian labor law is going to contain the requests directly presented by workers and the social partners. Indeed, to write the new Labor Code, the draft presented by the government...
13 April 2010
Denmark: LO can’t stop its ‘member hemorrhage’
Last year, LO lost 34,000 members, bringing the number of dues-paying members down to 954,653 in 2009. the member hemorrhage affecting the union since 1996 (when it accounted for 1,331,917...
13 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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Import bans on forced labor products are multiplying
Under pressure from new US tariffs, many countries have presented texts in recent weeks to ban the import of products made with forced labor. A real breakthrough for workers' rights or a mere...
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France: EDF served formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations
The news. On 23 September, Greenpeace France announced that it had served EDF with a formal notice for failure to comply with its sustainability due diligence obligations due to the risks of harm...
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24 September 2026
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Slovakia: a bill to “clarify” personal data protection measures
The news. The Slovak government approved a bill on personal data protection on August 26, 2026. This text aims to clarify existing regulations regarding employees’ rights and...
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7 September 2026