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Germany: the Deutsche Bahn to pay a high fine for controlling employees’ data without their knowing it
Earlier this year, the Deutsche Bahn recognized that it controlled and compared, several times since 1998, personal information on almost all its employees and suppliers without them knowing about...
22 October 2009
China: expats going home
Fewer expats. The big apartment on the 20th
floor with a view on Shanghai’s skyscrapers seems pretty empty. After nine
months living in China, Karine is quickly gathering her last boxes in the...
21 October 2009
RR Donnelley: EWC agreement
RR Donnelley’s special negotiating body and management signed an agreement establishing the EWC. This agreement is the result of three years of negotiations during which the company’s American...
21 October 2009
Great Britain: government shows that race discrimination still exists upon recruitment
Africans and Asians are the first victims. The Employment Ministry’s study shows that workers with an African or Asian name are discriminated against when they apply for a job (see our dispatch...
21 October 2009
Germany: Transnet and GDBA rail unions to increase cooperation to have more weight against the Deutsche Bahn
Two unions already
quite close. To
that end, on October 26 and 27, Transnet’s executive committee will meet, and
the GDBA’s management will do the same on October 29 to talk about this...
21 October 2009
Great Britain: government wants to remove default retirement age
While default retirement age should be revised
in 2010 (see
our dispatch No. 090737), the government decided to speed the process up
and called on employers in large businesses to give an...
20 October 2009
Lithuania: minority unions revolt against the future national Pact
Minority unions’ discontent with the agreement… While the main unions (Confederation of Lithuanian Unions, Solidarumas, Labor Federation) don’t deny that they will soon sign, with the government...
20 October 2009
Italy: focus on agreements between regions and unions to face the crisis
Regions’ effort against the crisis. Agreements concluded between Italian regions and the social partners since the beginning of the year allowed “completing, extending and gauge” about anti-crisis...
20 October 2009
Sweden: government wants to make funded pensions fairer
The reform proposed by the government affects the
part of the Swedish pension system, mostly made up of “notional accounts.” A
residual part (5% of contributions) is made up of a capitalization...
20 October 2009
Netherlands: Parliament extends short-time working after January 1, 2010
Originally, Minister for Labor and Social Affairs Piet Hein Donner wanted to decide after January 1, 2010 about a possible extension of short-time working (Deeltijd WW). Parliament decided...
20 October 2009
Italy: home stretch before the creation of a big chemistry, energy and textile federation within the CGIL
Planned merger. Ratified at the last CGIL congress in 2006, the merger of the Filcem (chemistry) and Filtea (textile) was slowed down by efforts against the crisis and the separate agreement on...
20 October 2009
Germany: open strike in industrial cleaning
For a global 8.7% wage increase. An IG BAU spokesman told Planet Labor that the strike won’t take place at the same time or in all businesses, it will be “flexible and unpredictable.” It will...
20 October 2009
Ireland: unions maintain pressure to enforce the wage agreement
Wage cut. Today, Tuesday, October 20, 2009,
the Irish government will meet with the social partners for an informal
meeting. The revival of negotiations on the national social pact for 2016...
19 October 2009
Spain: the works council of Opel’s Figueruelas site rejects Magna’s plan and calls for a strike
The El
Periodico daily in Aragon
pointed out that 25,000 direct or indirect jobs depend on Opel Spain and
launched a campaign entitled “For employment at Opel.” It says that the Spanish
site...
19 October 2009
Spain: metalworkers call for a strike on October 28
Sectoral consequence
of the national fracture in social dialog. This call is the implementation of the strategy
unions designed last summer after social dialog attempts failed and after they...
19 October 2009
Netherlands: coalition in power presents pension reform
Gradual increase of retirement age. On October 16, the Christian Democrats and the Labor Party, in power, reached a compromise on the increase in retirement age. It will go from 65 to 66 in 2020...
19 October 2009
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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