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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
Rhodia: creation of the “Observatory Worldwide Safety”
Role, composition and meetings. “The role of the Worldwide Safety Panel is to monitor the safety situation within the group” reads the amendment to the global agreement, signed on June 19, 2009...
12 April 2010
Great Britain: growth, employment and cutting public expenditure featured in the parties’ manifestos for the coming general election
For the first time in many years, there are no specific policy pledges on industrial relations from any of the three main parties (although the manifestos have yet to be launched). This reflects...
12 April 2010
Sweden: new agreements for metal and chemistry workers supervise appeal to temporary work
The overall provisions of these agreements are similar to those contained in the agreement for white-collar workers and executives in the industry (see our dispatch No. 100257). IF Metall obtained...
12 April 2010
Germany: 54% of businesses offer upgrading courses for apprentices with increasingly incomplete knowledge
Demographic ageing. The economy’s future needs in skilled employees, combined with demographic ageing and fewer applicants for apprenticeship, are driving German businesses to offer in-house and...
12 April 2010
Italy: Fiom-CGIL wants to use the deadly accident in an ENEL station as an “example”
Today, April 12th, the station will partially reopen. Following workers’ mobilization, the mayor of Civitavecchia ordered its shutdown for two weeks. However, one week after the accident of April...
12 April 2010
International: the Swedish and Brazilian trade unions lobby for Saab to modernize the Brazilian military aircraft
The declaration also emphasised the commitment of the Swedish governmental and non-governmental sector to support the establishment of new production clusters for defence equipment. It underlined...
9 April 2010
Austria: negotiations on flexible working time in metal failed
Complete jam. “If the concept of flexible working time simply means cutting wage increases and extending working time, we won’t sign any agreement” declared Peter Schleinbach, in charge of...
8 April 2010
Denmark: the authorities want to improve measures against social dumping
“We will not tolerate that many foreign businesses violate the Act on Mandatory Enrolment to the Register of Foreign Businesses as well as Danish labor market rules.” This is how Labor Minister...
8 April 2010
Great-Britain: the bill to transpose the new Directive on European Works Councils lays before the Parliament
Scope. In accordance with the directive, anticipation agreements (which came into force before 16th December 1999) are not submitted to the new clauses nor to the existing clauses in force, except...
8 April 2010
United States: the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) comes back to life
The employers launched the red alert. Randel Johnson, the US Chamber of Commerce’s labor relations expert launched the “red alert” for the three million businesses belonging to the Chamber...
8 April 2010
Germany: 41% of the employees are accessible by mobile phone beyond office hours without having signed an agreement with their employer
The increasing use of mobile devices by employees and not only managers more and more softens the border between working and private time. This development questions the labour law. Particularly...
8 April 2010
Italy: Fillea, the CGIL building industry federation held its XVIIth national congress
Commitment to the « law ». The union commits itself to relaunch the campaign against the “caporalato” (illegal form of labour exploitation), widely spread in the country, so that it could be...
7 April 2010
Great Britain: about the use of injunctions by the employers to prevent strikes
The current legal framework governing industrial action and strikes results from the legislation passed by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s. It is legislation which Labour...
7 April 2010
International: Russia and the crisis
Real figures behind façade optimism. While Vladimir Poutine is talking about the beginning of a drop, based on the number of jobseekers listed by employment agencies (2.7 million in early march)...
7 April 2010
EU: the Metalworkers’ Federation, Mine Chemical Energy Workers’ Federation and Federation of Textile lays the foundations for an increased cooperation
Planet Labor April 7, 2010, n°100283- www.planetlabor.com
6 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