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Denmark: agreement between SAS and cabin crew to help the company implement its saving program
The Scandinavian airline launched, in January 2009, a savings program to face the decline of the air market and obtained substantial wage concessions from unions (see our dispatch No. 090077)...
16 March 2010
Netherlands: limited extension of short-time working
Right now, over 40,000 employees are on short-time working (Deeltijd WW), a system introduced in early 2009 to face the crisis. The new, temporary extension of this measure will be the last. After...
16 March 2010
Deutsche Telekom: the German telephone operator introduced a 30% quota of women for its worldwide management
Deutsche Telekom (DTAG) is the first company among the DAX – the Frankfurt stock market – to introduce a quota of women for its supervisory staff, in a country where public authorities have, so...
15 March 2010
Italy: CGIL announces 1 million participants to its March 12 general strike
Noting a four-hour strike in the private sector and an eight-hour strike in the public sector, on Friday, March 12, “exceeded its expectations,” the CGIL announced that one million people took...
15 March 2010
Corporate practices: AstraZeneca’s policy for preventing illnesses and accidents banks on one-on-one coaching
The company’s motives. The department in charge of production for AstraZeneca in Sweden was worried about the increased number of accidents and occupational diseases on the sites. The problem was...
15 March 2010
Belgium: productivity bonuses taking hold in businesses
Heterogeneous award of the bonuses. To motivate their collaborators, businesses increasingly appeal to the system of “non-recurring productivity-based incentives” – the official name given to the...
15 March 2010
Netherlands: extension of short-time working in exchange for wage moderation
On March 11, Piet Hein Donner, Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, met with the social partners to propose the following agreement: extending short-time working (Deeltijd WV-v, see our dispatch...
15 March 2010
Italy: social partners sign joint opinion on arbitration following reactions to the decree-law reforming labor disputes
On march 11th, at the Ministry of Labor, all the social partners except the CGIL signed a joint opinion on arbitration, easier to appeal to with the decree-law recently passed by the Senate (see...
12 March 2010
Spain: GM and Opel’s unions reach an agreement
This outline agreement was concluded on the night of March 11th, after a marathon 10-hour meeting supervised by the regional administration of Aragon. This agreement should celebrate the end of...
12 March 2010
Germany: Federal Labor Court establishes the principle of equal treatment regarding corporate supplementary pension schemes
Abolishing status differences between employees. By giving satisfaction to a retired worker from Ford Deutschland, the BAG’s ruling (Ref. 3 AZR 216/09) clearly established equal treatment...
12 March 2010
Denmark: new CCN in the building sector provides for various means to fight against social dumping
The managing director of the Dansk Byggeri employers’ association, Lars Storr-Hansen, emphasized that the agreement for the renewal of the building sector’s CCN, was signed on Friday, March 5th...
11 March 2010
Italy: 15th national Uil union congress announces a “reformist future”
Between March 2 and march 4, the trade union held, in Rome, its 15th national congress under the watchword: “Uil, a reformist future.” On March 5th, it celebrated its 60th birthday. Over 1,200...
11 March 2010
Germany: IG BCE chemistry union demands a higher wage increase than that secured for metalworkers
Very differentiated situation. This is the third large collective bargaining round this year, after metalworking and electrical engineering (see our dispatch No. 100156) and the civil service (see...
11 March 2010
Areva, Alstom/Schneider Electric: European negotiation on social guarantees in the framework of the sale of Areva T&D
Social guarantees for T&D employees. The European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) received a unanimous mandate from its members present in the three companies affected by the operation. Thus...
11 March 2010
EU: pending signature of the draft cross-industry agreement on inclusive labor markets
This framework agreement is “based on the principle that ensuring inclusive labor markets implies shared responsibilities of employers, individuals, workers, workers’ and employers’...
10 March 2010
Germany: union competition in the temporary sector leads to a high pay raise for employees
Union race. In fact, the BZA employers’ organization announced, on January 26, 2010, that it signed a collective agreement with the DGB for the approximately 200,000 employees of the BZA’s member...
10 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