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United Kingdom: Tories’ social agenda bothers unions
Outsourcing. “There will have to be cutbacks in public spending, and that will be painful. We will need to confront Britain’s culture of irresponsibility and that will be hard to take for many...
12 October 2009
Italy: the general strike organized by the Fiom didn’t block negotiations for the renewal of metalworkers’ CCN
In a speech given during the demonstration organized in Milan on October 9, concluding the strike aimed at “defending the national collective agreement and democracy and against layoffs and...
12 October 2009
EU: governments and social partners face the challenges of the green economy
Institutional and political
diversity. At the
level of the Member States, the political and institutional resources developed
are different. Most countries created green government departments...
12 October 2009
Netherlands: employers liable for burnout
This is a major victory for the FNV: the Court of Appeal of Bois-le-Duc ruled that an employer was liable for overworking one of its employees, insofar as there was no active policy for the...
9 October 2009
Italy: first “Charter for equal opportunities and parity at work”
Diversity as a key to competitiveness and success. Directly based on French and German initiatives, the “Charter for equal opportunities and parity at work” (Carta per le pari opportunità e...
9 October 2009
Netherlands: emergency measures to protect mailmen
New businesses working on the Dutch postal market (Sandd, Selektmail and others) are going to have to meet several requirements. First, they have to sign a labor contract with their employees...
8 October 2009
Spain: paternity leave extended to four weeks in 2011
The only change introduced by the new law is an extension of the paternity leave paid by the social security. At the moment, the social security benefit has a limited duration of 13 days (15 days...
8 October 2009
Germany: Ver.di union threatens to strike if negotiations with the Deutsche Post fail
Bonus in exchange for working time increase. For the management, there is no alternative to reducing personnel costs to face structural problems (increase in electronic exchanges) and economic...
8 October 2009
Spain: employers and union organizations reopen dialog to unfreeze collective bargaining
The technical negotiators of the CEOE and Cepyme employers’ confederations and of the Workers’ Commission’s and UGT union federations created a joint workgroup (two representatives per union and...
8 October 2009
Morocco: interview of Jamal Belahrach, chairman of the Committee on Employment and Social Relations at the General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises
The goal is to build dialog with unions and no longer tripartite dialog with the government, which we used to do until now. We will discuss the problems faced by businesses and the labor code in...
8 October 2009
Italy: independent unions specify the profile of the future “Italian confederation of basic unions”
“The union we need.” This was the slogan of the national assembly convened by the main independent unions which signed the “basic pact”: RdB, SdL Intercategoriale, Snater, Cub Informazione, Flaica...
7 October 2009
Sweden: LO confederation refuses to sign the collective agreement on temporary work if the wage clause isn’t rediscussed
A new mode of wage calculation endorsed by all. After the negotiations started on march 24, 2009, the LO union and the Almega employers’ federation – powerful member of the Svenst Naringsliv...
7 October 2009
Netherlands: judges forbid strike in public transportation
The Court of Amsterdam blocked the public transportation strike which should have been held this morning in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. The judges judged that the negative impact of this...
7 October 2009
Germany: the pay gap between east and west is still over 27%
Constant wage gap. Dedicated to “The Eastern Employment Market 20 Years after the fall of the Wall,” the DGB’s study shows that the living conditions of most eastern Germans definitely improved...
7 October 2009
EU: gas social partners about to develop a toolkit to deal with demographic ageing and the skills shortage
Plan on age management. Gas social partners met on Monday, October 5 to work on the final study of their “Demographic Change and Competencies” project. The document will be presented as a...
6 October 2009
Denmark: the “manufacturing” department of the 3F union sets goals for the renewal of collective agreements in 2010
For a new union unity. The national assembly of the manufacturing department of the 3F union (379 representatives) was held in Esbjerg on September 26-27. Open to the radical reform of Danish...
6 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...
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
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
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...
15 October 2025
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Spain: new terms and conditions for in-company training contracts
On 25 November, Spain's Council of Ministers approved a regulation on training contracts. This text defines the terms and conditions for hosting work-study students and interns doing professional...
1 December 2025
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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
19 December 2025
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
15 December 2025