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Corporate practices: Pekkaniska, large Finnish lifting company, is paying employees to improve their health
Unions view the implementation of policies aimed to significantly improve quality of life at work as a necessary requirement for a possible agreement on the extension of careers. However, even...
10 March 2010
Poland: union and employers’ organizations are “renewing” their representativeness
Proven representativeness. Initially, the founding text for union representativeness – Act of July 6, 2001 regarding the tripartite committee and regional social dialog committees – recognized as...
10 March 2010
Great Britain: Royal Mail unions and management sign an agreement on the company’s modernization
Voluntary leaves. After weeks of conflict, the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), stepped in, in November, to act as a mediator between Royal Mail and the CWU (see our dispatch...
9 March 2010
Italy: electricity social partners renew national collective agreement with a unitary agreement
“This is a major outcome, achieved thanks to the resoluteness of union organizations which, during these months of difficult negotiations with employers’ organizations and businesses in the...
9 March 2010
EU: ILO thinks that the EU’s case law limiting the right to strike questions the freedom of association protected by international regulations
Facts. The comment of the ILO’s legal experts is included in the international organization’s 2010 report published in late February. It shows that, on October 22, 2008, a BALPA union went to the...
9 March 2010
Great Britain: could businesses have to render accounts on the number of women with managing positions?
This government request is based on the draft Equality Bill currently discussed in Parliament, which will allow positive action in businesses to appoint more women to senior positions. If the...
9 March 2010
Portugal: public aids for businesses training employees on short-time working will now be limited to some sensitive sectors
Objectives. The “Qualification-Employment” program contains measures to fight unemployment by financially supporting the employment/training rotation in the context of temporary reduction of...
8 March 2010
EU: skills and environmental transition at the heart of the 2010 work program of the electricity social partners
Joint declaration. The EPSU, the EMCEF and Eurelectric opened, in 2009, talks around the issue of skills. A toolbox was created to anticipate the transition towards greener production with...
8 March 2010
France: action plan to stop industry’s decline
After the Industry States General gathered, for several months, different roleplayers in manufacturing, the head of State presented, on march 4, an action plan to “redress the French industry...
8 March 2010
EU: permanent adoption of the parental leave directive
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...
8 March 2010
Italy: Senate permanently approves decree-law reforming labor disputes
“After a very long Parliamentary process, started with the Biagi Act (…), we can finally solve controversy in terms of labor via arbitration;” this is how Labor Minister Maurizio Sacconi presented...
7 March 2010
Netherlands: large chocolate producers and retailers commit, with FNV, in favor of “sustainable chocolate”
FNV and Allies general secretary Henk van der Kolk launched this unprecedented initiative, in the form of a “memorandum of understanding” (MoU). This document, which wants Dutch people to only...
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5 March 2010
Sweden: threatened with union boycott, Accor Ticket Rikskuponger AB’s subsidiary is forced to negotiate a collective agreement
Effective boycott call. In the fall of 2009, the LO union confederation found out that 25 of its members weren’t covered by a collective agreement in the company where they worked, Ticket...
5 March 2010
Denmark: transport social partners renew national collective agreement
The social partners in the transport sector, 3F for unions and Dansk Industri (DI) for employers, signed an agreement for the renewal of the collective agreement. Affecting nearly 900 businesses...
4 March 2010
Great Britain: Asda supermarket chain to force supplies to give equal pay to their permanent and temporary staff
Unfairness leading to conflict. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is planning to publish, in March, its first enquiry on discrimination within the supermarket supply chain in England...
4 March 2010
Companies: 5th Hewitt Associates report for the European Club for Human Resources shows gradual return to investment into human capital in 2010
Management of the crisis and post recession measures. Leonardo Sforza, head of EU affairs and research at Hewitt Associates and author of the study, thinks 2010 will be a transition year. He said...
4 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