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Great Britain: Google named best place to work
Careful selection of employees, who are pampered and stay in the company for a long time : these are the reasons for the keen interesting the young American company. A study carried out by the...
4 June 2008
EU: the Parliament is discussing a draft resolution for the posting of workers
The members of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the European Parliament debated, on May 29, on the draft resolution for the future of collective agreements after the Laval, Viking...
4 June 2008
Arcelor-Mittal: global agreement on health and safety at work
The steel group Arcelor-Mittal (310.000 employees) and three union organizations – the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF), the European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and the American...
4 June 2008
Lafarge: safety month in all the sites of the group
The French group Lafarge (90.000 employees), world leader in construction materials, will organize, in June, a "safety month" in 76 countries where the group is present. At every site, "one or...
3 June 2008
Italy: union and renewal praised at the end of the Cgil national organization conference
The Cgil's national organization conference, which was held from May 29 to May 31, ended with the approval, by a large majority, of the two documents – one political, the other organizational –...
3 June 2008
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...
3 June 2008
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...
2 June 2008
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...
2 June 2008
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...
30 May 2008
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...
30 May 2008
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...
30 May 2008
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...
29 May 2008
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...
29 May 2008
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...
29 May 2008
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...
29 May 2008
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...
29 May 2008
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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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Italy: Enel signs agreement to manage the effects of AI on work
An agreement signed at the end of July by the electricity company Enel (31,000 employees) and the unions Filctem-Cgil, Flaei-Cisl, and Uiltec is pioneering in the Italian energy sector. It aims to...
7 September 2026
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026