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Great Britain: law transposing temporary work directive postponed to October 2011
Help businesses recover from the economic crisis. The European directive on agency workers gives them more rights, including the right to equal pay with permanent workers after 12 weeks in a...
15 October 2009
United States: agreement reached between Ford and the UAW
Wage freeze and
no-strike provision.
The management of the carmaker and the management of the United Auto Workers
(UAW) have reached a new tentative agreement. Three key measures were approved:
15 October 2009
EU: joint declaration by the European Metalworkers’ Federation and the European Association of Automotive Suppliers on the future of the automotive industry
This statement is the result of a one-year project co-funded by the European Commission, studying good practices in the sector to adjust to change. “EMF and Clepa see the current situation in the...
15 October 2009
Belgium: new banking sectoral agreement
The La CNE, SETca, LBC and CGSLB for unions and the Fedelfin for employers signed, on October 9, the 2009-10 banking sectoral agreement. Negotiations were held in May and September as part of the...
14 October 2009
Italy: unions and employers in the temporary work sector agree on a single sectoral collective agreement
Single CCN. On October 9, Alleanza Lavoro signed with Assolavoro (Confindustria) and the Nidil CGIL, Alai Cisl and Uil CPO unions an agreement “restoring conventional unity” in the temporary work...
14 October 2009
Germany: massive appeal to short-time working as an obstacle to businesses’ competitiveness
High “leftover costs.” An IAB study shows that, since the crisis began, businesses introduced short-time working requests for over 3.4 million employees. In June 2008, over 1.4 million German...
14 October 2009
Portugal: outsourcing sector signs code of conduct
Competence,
transparency and better working conditions. The signatories accepted to only commit for
service contracts for which they are directly competent. They also adopted a
confidentiality...
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14 October 2009
United States: bill strengthens the fight against age discrimination
Three heavyweights of the democratic party presented a bill to improve American laws on age discrimination and against a four-month-old supreme court ruling. Tom Harkin, democratic Iowa senator...
14 October 2009
Germany: company agreement on “the future” for ThyssenKrupp’s stainless steel subsidiary
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta and its 4,500 employees
were almost the victims of the major restructuring organized by ThyssenKrupp
AG, the parent company (see
our dispatch No. 090491). The latter, which...
14 October 2009
Denmark: “ability assessment” replaces medical certificates to reduce absenteeism
Reduce the number of sick leaves. Since October 5, medical certificates have been replaced by “ability assessments” (mulighedserklæring). It is composed of two sheets, one filled by the employer...
14 October 2009
Great Britain: Royal Mail employees vote yes to national strike
A strike to protest against job and service cuts. Two years after the last national postmen strike, a similar scenario is taking shape in the UK. “This is a huge vote of no confidence in Royal...
13 October 2009
Netherlands: more flexible parental leave
More flexible parental
leave. Piet Hein
Donner, Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, wants to bring more flexibility
into leaves for employees who want to care for sick children or parents...
13 October 2009
Sweden: unions want equal pay between men and women to be a priority for the coming wage negotiations
Better compliance with
anti-discrimination laws. Despite an internal study showing a relative improvement in women’s situation,
the federation of private employees’ unions, Unionen, thinks that...
13 October 2009
EU: European and international union federations sign a charter on “sustainable” tourism
The European Trade Union Liaison Committee on Tourism, ETLC – which gathers the EFFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism trade unions), ETF (European Transport Workers’...
13 October 2009
Lithuania: government and social partners about to sign a far-flung national agreement
Drastic cost-cutting program. Initially, the text was mostly a plan to financially save the State and the social security from 2009 to 2012. it provided for layoffs and new wage cuts (8-10% in...
13 October 2009
Portugal: first mandatory arbitration unfreezes negotiations in paper industry
Regulatory tool. The Mandatory Arbitration Court is called when all forms of negotiation failed. In this case, the decision rendered by the Arbitration Court, made up of professionals from the...
13 October 2009
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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...
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On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...