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Netherlands: fines in the offing for businesses appealing to child labor
At the request of the small Christian orthodox party, Christen Unie, sanctions against businesses appealing to child labor are going to be tougher. It is no longer simply a question of withdrawing...
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22 March 2010
Italy: rubber and plastic social partners renew national collective agreement via unitary agreement
In spite of three separate platforms, the Filcem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil unions and the Federazione Gomma Plastica and Associazione Italiana Ricostruzione Pneumatici (AIRP) employers’...
22 March 2010
EU: textile social partners launches project to help implement REACH
Sectoral level. The project developed by Euratex (European textile employers) and its union counterpart, the European Trade Union Federation Textiles, Clothing and Leather (FSE THC), is going to...
22 March 2010
Austria: new minimum integration allowance stirs up debate on increasing minimum wage to 1,300 euros
Minimum wage with a door to employment. After months of uncertainty regarding the conditions for its application, the flagship reform of the SPÖ (social democrats), the party of the Austrian...
22 March 2010
Slovenia: details of the wage agreement in the metal and electronic sectors
Since employers’ representatives – the Association of Slovenian Employers, ZDS and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, GSZ – refused to discuss a substantial increase of sectoral minimum wage...
19 March 2010
EU: parental leave directive published in the official journal
This directive gives force of law to the agreement signed by the European social partners (UEAPME, BusinessEurope, CEEP for employers and ETUC for unions) on June 18, 2009, revising their former...
19 March 2010
Germany: rail unions demand a 6% increase, a pact on job security and sectoral minimum wage
Real increase and demographic ageing. Transnet and GDBA (more focused on employees who kept their civil servant status), who have been handling collective bargaining together since 2005...
18 March 2010
Great Britain: five new National Skills Academies for sectors with a high potential
18 academies. These new structures add up to the 13 academies present since 2006. These five new academies aim to attract more than 300,000 learners to training programs over the next four years...
18 March 2010
Denmark: recent collective agreements strengthen the Danish model
The economic crisis, the decline in union membership and the development of social dumping were the key three factors which pressured unions into agreeing on a “balanced compromise.” Thus...
18 March 2010
EU: European Commission to launch an initiative on the posting directive within a year
An initiative within a year. “We will not promote worker mobility or economic freedoms when they are used deliberately to downgrade working conditions” declared the Commissioner declared during a...
18 March 2010
Great Britain: the conflict between British Airways and Unite could spread to the US
A conflict without borders. British Airways passengers could endure disruptions on both sides of the Atlantic, after the leader of the powerful American union, Teamsters, James P. Hoffa, confirmed...
17 March 2010
Germany: fixed-term contracts soaring
Youth, foreigners and women mostly affected. According to the Statistics Office of Wiesbaden (which doesn’t differentiate fixed-term contracts with a particular reason and those without), the...
17 March 2010
EU: MEPs’ vote on maternity leave postponed
Cost of the measures. The vote for Mrs. Estrela’s report, planed on March 24, was delayed. The MEPs will simply debate on the draft report adopted on February 23 (see our dispatch No. 100173) by...
17 March 2010
Romania: construction unions and employers bargain for their next social agreement, providing a rare example of social partnership in the country
Negotiations are at full steam between Romanian construction unions and employers to set the bases for the next social agreement governing the SADEC in 2010-13. System of Sectoral Self-regulation...
17 March 2010
EU: more and more alternative individual dispute resolution systems
Two groups of countries. Eurofound, which bases this analysis on information provided for by its local partners, divides the countries into two categories. The first includes countries where...
16 March 2010
Great Britain: unions and associations call for clearer employment statuses to protect vulnerable workers
Two complicated employment statuses. The first problem is the definition of the employment status in labor law. The rights and protection of people working in the UK vary with their status...
16 March 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