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Netherlands: for the first time, government exempts laid off employees from looking for a job
On May 27, the government decided to be generous with the 65 employees of Teha, a wood transformation factory severely hit by the crisis. This is a first in the Netherlands: in spite of the fact...
1 June 2009
Mexico: partial unemployment intensifies at General Motors and Chrysler
To exhaust its stocks, in Silao, central Mexico, General Motors (GM) will enforce eight weeks of technical unemployment as of Monday, June 01. This measure should have originally started in...
1 June 2009
Spain: less than two in ten jobseekers receive training courses
Out of the 628,800 jobseekers who currently attend training, 200,000 – i.e. less than a third – currently attend qualifying training (vocational or academic training) and the remaining 400,000...
29 May 2009
Great Britain: because of the crisis and decreasing ranks, unions lay off
The recession doesn't affect businesses only. Unite, one of the largest trade unions in the UK, announced a 20% budget cut. Therefore, layoffs are planned, like at the Public and Commercial...
29 May 2009
General Motors: carmaker reaches agreement with the UAW but EU Member States are divided on the fate of GM Europe
Agreement between management and UAW. Once more, General Motors obtained compromises from the United Auto Workers. After agreeing, in March, to bring the wage costs of the carmakers’ workers in...
29 May 2009
Danone: the group launches a fund with 100 million euros to stimulate the economic and social development of its “ecosystem”
Global policy to spread the group’s values to all its undertakings. Danone relies on a wide and structured range of initiatives, programs and projects at French level aimed at materializing this...
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28 May 2009
Belgium: “restructuring” card available to more workers
Planet Labor, May 28, 2009, No. 090580 – www.planetlabor.com
28 May 2009
Spain: paternity leave up to 4 weeks in 2011
Planet Labor, May 28, 2009, No. 090579 – www.planetlabor.com
28 May 2009
Germany: DT in the spotlight again after “personal screening” on a Croatian manager detailing her sex life
Was personal screening justified? Still according to the Handelsblatt, the Croatian manager, reserving the right to press charges, directly contacted Rene Obermann, head of Deutsche Telekom...
27 May 2009
European Elections: PES and Greens in favor of minimum social standards in Europe
National divisions within the Party of European Socialists. Recently, this lack of coherence showed with the inability of the PES to present a candidate to succeed to Jose Manuel Barroso, head of...
27 May 2009
Netherlands: wage limits in hospitals
Planet Labor, May 29, 2009, No. 090586 – www.planetlabor.com
27 May 2009
Great Britain: employers demand a revision of the law on occupational pensions
Employers’ plan. The CBI proposes a series of measures to relieve pressure over businesses with pension funds. First, the Pensions Regulator should give businesses fifteen years (instead of ten)...
27 May 2009
Denmark: agreement on the reform of the body in charge of working environment in businesses
In order to “strengthen, develop and modernize” cooperation between employees, management and employers on health and safety at work, the social partners and the labor inspectorate agreed, on...
27 May 2009
Estonia: the rapid rise in unemployment threatens the solvency of the compensation system
No coalition agreement to turn back on increased benefits. However, this measure doesn’t solve the entire problem. Indeed, the new law on labor contracts, set to enter into force on July 1, 2009...
26 May 2009
Italy: the national assembly of the Basic Unitary Confederation (Cub) allows the transformation of the union
Seventeen years after its foundation, the Cub, the largest independent union in Italy (over 706,000 members) started its metamorphosis. The 400 delegates of the National Assembly, held in Riccone...
26 May 2009
Netherlands: crisis strengthens the polder system
Introduction of partial unemployment. The quick introduction of a temporary working time reduction system (ATV, see our dispatch No. 081049) to deal with the most urgent matters, gave the social...
26 May 2009
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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...