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Italy: 48 hours left to conclude an agreement on the fate of Alitalia’s staff
After a frenetic weekend after which the three trade union confederations CGIL, CISL, UIL and UGL found an agreement on the CAI's industrial plan, the pressure weighing on unions, especially the...
17 September 2008
Belgium: social comeback under the sign of the negotiations for the 2009-10 general multi-industry agreement
While the Social Partners will open, at the end of the year, the negotiations for the 2009-10 general multi-industry agreement, the social atmosphere is already tense with the call for strike...
17 September 2008
Mexico: Wal-Mart food coupons wage policy sanctioned
Mexican justice has inflicted a serious setback on the American chain Wal-Mart by condemning the illegal character of a clause forcing employees to spend part of their wages in its supermarkets...
17 September 2008
Denmark: leading women favor executive women’s career advancement within the company
When women get to the head of a business, they help other women upward hierarchal mobility, with a salutary "snowball effect" on equal opportunities, as a new study by the Aarhus University shows...
17 September 2008
EU: labor cost increase is slowing down
According to recent data published by the European statistics office, Eurostat, total hourly labor cost is decreasing, both in the Euro area and in the EU27, in the second quarter of 2008. During...
16 September 2008
Germany: Eurofound’s study on working time revived the debate on “worsening” working conditions
According to the European foundation for improved working and living conditions, German people work much longer than we thought. Armed with this observation, the Confederation of German trade...
16 September 2008
Italy: nine former executives of the old Goodyear factory condemned for the death of 15 workers
Nine former executives from Goodyear's Cisterna di Latina's factory (in the Latium, next to Rome) were condemned to an overall sentence of 20 years and four months of imprisonment for negligent...
16 September 2008
Great Britain: telework is booming
A survey published on September 8, 2008 by the employers' organization CBI shows a major increase in the number of employers giving their employees the possibility to work from home: 46% instead...
16 September 2008
Gaz de France Suez: European representatives meet to improve GDF’s EWC agreement
The representatives of GDF's EWC and of Suez's IED (European Consultative Committee) will meet on September 17-19 during a joint seminar to prepare the negotiation on the EWC of the new group...
16 September 2008
Italy: Confindustria presented its national collective bargaining model to the trade unions
A three-year national collective agreement, more weight to the company level and a seven-month "union peace" during the bargaining for the renewal: these are the main elements of the reform of the...
15 September 2008
Luxembourg: a bill to make the rules applicable to posted workers comply with European requirements
On September 12, the Council of Ministers adopted a bill aimed at ensuring compliance of the Labor Code with European regulations on posted workers as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the...
15 September 2008
Great Britain: lackluster evaluation of the TUC annual conference
Over 700 unionists met in Brighton on September 8-11, 2008 for the 140th TUC annual conference. The different bills announced by the Brown government's Ministers, who followed each other at the...
15 September 2008
Spain: employees look for second jobs
Spanish people didn't wait for the government to announce a recession to get ready to face hard times. Randstad, the temporary work agency, observed, from its own data, that the number of people...
15 September 2008
Spain: the government goes easy on the minimum wage increase
Pedro Solbes, Minister for Economic Affairs, announced that minimum interprofessional wages (SMI) would "increase slower than anticipated with different economic circumstances". The trade unions...
15 September 2008
EU: Dublin Foundation report on working time
In 2007, average collectively agreed weekly working time in the European Union was 38.6 hours. This is the outcome of the annual survey published by the European Foundation for the improvement of...
12 September 2008
Great Britain: job evaluation guide
How to avoid going to court for wage discrimination ? By establishing job and pay evaluation schemes, answers the ACAS - the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - in a guide published...
12 September 2008
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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...
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France: government submits draft on pay transparency
On 6 March, the French government sent social partners a draft bill to transpose the EU Pay Transparency Directive. The text provides details on the implementation timetable, corporate...
9 March 2026
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Sweden: government delays transposition of Pay Transparency Directive
On 11 March, the Swedish government announced it is postponing the transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive. Having originally targeted an entry into force on 1 July 2026, it has conceded a...
16 March 2026
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Germany: menopause issues finally gain corporate recognition
With 12 million women over 40 in the labour force, German companies and occupational health professionals are beginning to adopt support policies for those affected by menopause-related issues...
19 March 2026
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Italy: Deliveroo and Glovo targeted by justice over courier working conditions
The Milan Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered two of Italy's leading food delivery platforms, Foodinho (Glovo) and Deliveroo, to be placed under judicial administration. According to...
9 March 2026
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Denmark: government launches transposition of the Pay Transparency Directive
On 26 February, the Danish government submitted a draft bill to transpose the Pay Transparency Directive for consultation until 27 March. The bill sets an implementation date of 1 January 2027...
11 March 2026
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Valérie Decaux (La Poste): “Our older workers policy is based on individualisation to move beyond age-related-stigmatisation”
La Poste Group (nearly 200,000 employees in France) unveiled its first senior employment agreement in late February. The text outlines measures for early retirement assistance, workplace...
10 March 2026