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Spain: union concerns about the public postal sector
The Comisiones obreras union is sounding the alarm about the risk the public postal company Correos is running faced with the government's inertia. According to the CCOO, whereas all EU countries...
Great Britain: 65 million pounds to train engineers and scientists
The government and employers signed an agreement to improve the skills level of industry, science and recent technologies workers. The government announced this on May 28, a few days after...
Corporate practices : the German group Henkel boosts and internationalizes its corporate diversity management policy
Henkel illustrates the human diversity policy of the group at its site in Vienna. There, the firm has set up its headquarters for Austria and the east European countries. 10.000 people of 33...
Germany: the federal government awards best work-life balance employment schemes
The names of the companies who won the "Erfolgsfaktor Familie 2008" contest (see our dispatch No. 080082) were revealed, on May 29, 2008, by the Federal Minister for Families. Created in 2005...
EU : toward political agreement on June 9 on working time and temporary work draft directives
A last negotiating meeting is scheduled before the council of ministers that is to be held on June 9-10. However, the last meeting revealed a genuine consensus on the proposals presented by the...
EU: Parliament pressure to increase the fight against discrimination
While the European Commission is thinking about what measures to take in terms of the fight against discrimination in its social package (see our article No. 080369), which is now planned for July...
Netherlands: government to encourage work after 65
Piet Hein Donner, Christian Democrat Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, presented, on May 28, the details of his plan to encourage senior citizens to work after legal retirement age. The...
EU: the CJEC departs from the rule that the legislation of a single Member State is to apply in favor of a mobile employee
In a judgment of May 20, 2008, the CJEC questioned the rule that the legislation of a single Member State is to apply in terms of social security. Concerning family benefits, the ruling raised...
EU: the European Globalization Fund pays 3.1 million euro to help redundant workers in Portugal and Malta
The European Commission has paid the Portuguese and Maltese authorities 3.1 million euro from the European Globalization Fund (EGF) to help the employees dismissed in the automobile sector in...
EU : joint declaration of European social partners on temporary work draft directive
The European social partners of the temporary work sector hope that the Council, the European Commission and the European Parliament will take account of their joint statement in their future...
Italy: increased and transformed temporary work
In 2007, temporary work increased of 13% compared to 2006. However, according to Ebitemp, the Observatory for temp work, it is evolving, from a springboard for young people into the labor market...
Great Britain: fingerprints to control employees
After the success of the pilot-project launched by the Nivid company, the fingerprint technology will soon be used to supervise the staff come and go while complying with the law on data...
Finland: social partners and public authorities to fight against silicosis
The Finnish social partners and public powers just agreed on a project to fight against exposure to crystalline silica dust. This is to implement the European multi-sector agreement signed on...
Spain: tougher sanctions against employers of illegal workers
Celestino Corbacho, Labor Minister, announced "a toughening of sanctions against employers and entrepreneurs who employ illegal foreigners in Spain." He also plans to increase the number of labor...
Croatia: Government sends minimum wage bill to parliament
As of July 1, the minimum wage will go up from the current gross HRK 2,441 (€336.789) to about 2,747 (€379.008), the Croatian government said at a session on Thursday May 15, sending a bill on the...
Germany : the ver.di union drafts a new complaint against the rival union GNBZ
This complaint marks a further step in the conflict opposing the ver. di union and Deutsche Post on the one hand and GNBZ and the main rival postal firms, TNT and PIN, on the other hand. Since...
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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...
5 December 2025
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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...
16 December 2025
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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