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Germany: Opel GmbH to pay retrospectively for extra company pension to 20.000 pensioners
After two rulings at the federal Labour Court rendered in 1993 and 2002 by virtue of the principle of equal treatment among workers, Opel negotiated with its EWC a retroactive payment of an...
2 January 2008
Italy: social partners from the electric sector renew their collective agreement’s economic part
The agreement to renew the national collective agreement was signed on December 18, 2007. Unions are satisfied with this text which grants an average 116 euros increase for the 2008-2009 period...
2 January 2008
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21 December 2007
Sweden: reactions to the Court of Justice’s decision in the Laval Partners case
The decision of the Court of Justice of the European Communities concerning the case P Baltic Bygg and its parent company, the Latvian group Laval Partneri (see our article No. 071034), whose...
21 December 2007
Spain : the agreement which will supervise sectorial company negotiations in 2008 was signed
Social partners decided, for 2008, to renew the interprofessional agreement on collective negotiation signed in 2007, with a few novelties in terms of work-life balance, and harassment as part of...
20 December 2007
Germany: GDL breaks negotiations with the Deutsche Bahn and starts a new strike
The train drivers' union GDL unexpectedly broke the negotiations started on December 4 with the DB, which had enabled to stop strike movements in Germany. The union announced that train drivers...
20 December 2007
Sanofi-Aventis : final stretch to the creation of a European negotiation body
The European Mine, Chemistry and Energy Federation (EMCEF) is consulting its members about the draft agreement creating a European dialogue body within the pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis...
19 December 2007
Denmark : the explosion of temp work changes the structure of the labour market
Same legislation for temp staff as for ordinary employees. Karin Retvig, chairwoman of the union HK Privat (157,000 members) declared to JP, “People are increasingly leaving fixed employment for...
19 December 2007
Italy : renewal of the economic part of the collective agreement in the energy and oil sector
The unions greeted the conclusion of this agreement which occurs in a context of tense relations between the employers’ union Confindustria and other employers’ unions, and amid renegotiation of...
19 December 2007
Germany: controversy on the introduction of minimum wage for temporary work
A few days after the Bundestag adopted, on December 14, 2007, a particularly disputed minimum wage in the postal sector (see our articles No. 071031 and 071004), a new conflict burst out among the...
19 December 2007
Italy : a serious accident at ThyssenKrupp Turin reactivates mobilization on safety at work
The fire which caused the lives of 5 workers in the night of December 6 could have been avoided, according to the unions, who accused the multinational of having progressively neglected safety...
19 December 2007
EU: new CJEC restrictions on collective action
In a decision rendered on December 18, the CJEC ruled that, as part of the posting of workers, unions' actions to impose on foreign service providers the respect of social standards that are more...
19 December 2007
CPI: agreement on the creation of a EWC
The French printing group CPI (4.000 employees) signed an agreement establishing a European Works' Council, on December 13, 2007, followed by the council's first meeting. The goal is to introduce...
19 December 2007
Great Britain: legislation on workers’ protection in the event of a company transfer applies to the transferee located outside of the EU
In a judgment handed down on 12 December 2007, in which, for the first time, the Employment Appeal Tribunal - EAT, speaks out on the interpretation of the TUPE regulations implementing the...
18 December 2007
Italy: report on the evolution of industrial relations in 2007
According to the last report from the research institute Censis on the country's social situation, industrial relations in 2006 were marked by a considerable decrease in the number of collective...
17 December 2007
Denmark: DSB signed an agreement to compensate asbestos victims
Employees from the DSB, the Danish national railroad company, who have developed or will develop a pathology after being exposed to asbestos for work, will get from their employer one and a half...
17 December 2007
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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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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
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...
5 March 2026
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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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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...
6 March 2026