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Belgium: unions denounce legal appeals against picket lines
Can employers bring to court the appeal to pickets to prevent companies from accessing customers or workers? The question is being debated in Belgium after the blocking of several companies...
12 November 2008
Germany: Volkswagen shelves the emblematic “5.000 x 5.000” project with the IG Metall’s agreement
After removing the famous four-day week in 2006, it is now the turn of the "5.000 x 5.000" project, created in 2001 to train and employ 5.000 unemployed people, to disappear. The agreement...
10 November 2008
China: analysis of the implementing regulation for the Labor Contract Act
Aiqing Zheng, associate professor at the faculty of law at the University of Renmin, analyzed for Planet Labor the implementing regulation for the Labor Contract Act, adopted in 2007. This...
10 November 2008
Germany: the IG Metall appeals to young people again
For the first time in ten years, the main sectoral union in Germany has managed to consolidate its size. There has even been a 5.7% increase in memberships among people under 27. This radical...
10 November 2008
Spain: webpage to promote citizens’ active participation in CSR
The Spanish observatory of social responsibility (OBRSC) presented the Information Center for Corporate Practices, a tool used to control and expose socially "irresponsible" behaviors. (Ref...
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10 November 2008
Cuba: labor law reform establishes the “pay according to results” system and removes the salary limit
The Cuban government is to introduce wage incentives within national corporations to develop the economy. Traditional egalitarianism is now considered obsolete. The maximum salary will be...
10 November 2008
Portugal: the new labor code adopted
The reform of the labor code was adopted by the Portuguese Parliament on Friday November 7, thanks to the socialist majority, but only by a whisker. Born from social dialogue, this new code was...
10 November 2008
EU: the ETF supports French civil aviation unions which object to the increase of retirement age for flying personnel
The European Transport workers' Federation announced, on November 5, 2008, that it supported the flying personnel unions of the airline Air France which object to the increase of retirement age...
10 November 2008
Austria: 4.2-4.5% increase in one year for 170.000 metal and mine workers
The agreement reached by the social partners in the metallurgy and mining sector, presented in the night of November 5, 2008, sparked off a controversy among employers. Overall deemed positive, it...
10 November 2008
Belgium: royal decree on the working conditions of mobile workers engaged in interoperable cross-border services in the railway sector
After ratification by the Council of Ministers on November 7, 2008, a Royal Decree which contains rules on certain aspects of the working conditions of mobile workers engaged in interoperable...
10 November 2008
Belgium: draft bill to limit golden parachutes
The Council of Ministers held on November 7, 2008 adopted the draft bill amending the code of businesses to limit the amount of the severance pay of some managing agents and to draw a report of...
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10 November 2008
Italy: Alitalia’s autonomous unions mobilized against the Cai’s refusal to continue bargaining
This week will be decisive for the takeover of the Italian airline Alitalia by the consortium of Italian investors, Cai. After the Cai's chair declared the end of social negotiations, the...
10 November 2008
Spain: in the absence of support from the social partners, the government postpones some measures to boost employment
The crisis is causing social dialogue to crumble as the government is trying to face the rapid unemployment increase. The social partners answered with a burst of criticism to the proposition the...
10 November 2008
Netherlands: tripartite talks to shorten the work week to avoid mass layoffs
Union and employers' organizations as well as the government are having talks behind closed doors to face the risk of mass layoffs because of the economic crisis. Reducing working time for all (36...
7 November 2008
Spain: unions protest against job cuts and want public powers to step in
The opposition to the layoff plan presented by Nissan for its site in Barcelona has become unions' symbol. They protest against staffing cuts ("EREs" - expedientes de reducción de empleo) which...
7 November 2008
Germany: the train drivers’ union GDL satisfied about the temporary writing off of the partial privatization of the Deutsche Bahn
Bonus if the privatization
succeeds. With the
threat of recession in Germany as a background and the new debate on managers’
remuneration (see our dispatch No. 080811), the announcement in...
7 November 2008
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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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In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
2 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
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