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Areva: implementation of agreement on equal opportunities, interview with Maureen Kearney
After the European Commission's approval to pay for the implementation plan for the agreement on equal opportunities within the group (see our story No. 070947), Maureen Kearney, secretary of...
France: lasting conflict on special pension schemes
The strike against the reform on special pension schemes has been going on since November 13 among railway workers and in the urban transports around Paris. Union confederations' leaders, on the...
Denmark: social partners’ first reactions to legislative elections
After the early legislative elections of Tuesday November 13, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, leader of the liberal party Venstre and leader of the liberal-conservative coalition which has been governing...
Italy: first employment agency managed by union
The Cisl is starting a pilot experience creating an employment agency in the city of Bolona and is thus becoming the first union to ever propose such an idea. After an experimentation phase, it...
Germany: bill to “unblock” labour and social security courts
The Ministers' Council (Bundeskabinett) adopted, on Wednesday, November 13, 2007, a bill which concerns both labour courts and "social”"courts (cases depending from social security law). The bill...
Germany: the federal labour court recognised the preservation of the company’s pension scheme in case of transfers
In a ruling rendered on November 13, 2007, the federal labour court gave satisfaction to an employee whose firm was bought off. It gave him the right to preserve the level of his company pension...
France: CNE does not comply with ILO rules
Seized with a claim from the LO union, the ILO - International Labour Office - judged, in a report published on November 14, 2007, that the provisions of the ordinance 2005-883 of the French...
EU: EWC creations and negotiations in the building sector
Whereas two German groups in the building sector signed agreements to create or renew EWCs, the French group Bouygues, also present in this sector launched the negotiation of a new agreement after...
Italy: mandatory drug detection for some employees
The "Unified State-Regions Conference", which plays a prescriptive part in terms of health and safety at work, adopted, on October 30, a measure which plans regular drug detection for certain...
Areva: implementation of the agreement on equal opportunities, interview with Laure Klock
After the European Commission's approval to finance the implementation plan of the agreement on equal opportunities within the group (see our article No. 070947), Laure Klock, in charge of Areva's...
Areva: the European Commission to fund a plan to “implement” the European agreement on equal opportunities
The European Commission accepted to pay for the plan to implement the European agreement on equal opportunities adopted on November 16 (see our article No. 061207). This plan was jointly proposed...
Netherlands: agreement on Unilever restructuring after three weeks of social conflict
After three weeks of scattered strike, work started up on November 10 at Unilever, after a compromise was reached between unions and the Dutch multinational company's management. Indeed, an...
Austria: federal government reforms training leave’s access conditions and modalities
The Ministers' Council which took place on November 7 adopted the "Flexicurity-Paket" a series of measures enabling, among other things, access to the training leave (Bildungskarenz) after one...
EU: EPSU to set up fund to pay for EWCs’ legal actions
The principle is acted but the intervention modalities yet have to be discussed. European Federation of Public Services Unions (EPSU) is currently creating a fund to finance the legal actions of...
EU: bill on temp work resurfacing
Relaunched by the Portuguese presidency (see our article No. 070880), the discussions about the draft directive on temp work were subject to a turn of events during the negotiation session on...
Great Britain: bill on temp work failed in Parliament
The labour MP Paul Farrelly could not get his bill to legislate on temp workers' rights through after the government refused to support it. Unions and labour MPs expressed their concern. (Ref...
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Catherine Chavanier (CDC Habitat): “Social dialogue on AI facilitates its deployment”
In February, CDC Habitat (10,500 employees) signed a two-year framework agreement governing social dialogue on AI. Catherine Chavanier, HR Director of the subsidiary of CDC (Caisse des dépôts et...
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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...
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France: Club Med includes “multiculturalism” in its professional equality agreement
In December 2025, Club Med and the CFTC, Unsa, and FO trade unions signed an agreement on professional equality and working conditions. It introduces measures addressing AI, pay transparency, and...
23 March 2026
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France: bioMérieux’s new disability agreement pivots towards mental health
The news. On 6 January 2026, bioMérieux—an in vitro diagnostics specialist employing 4,400 people in France—signed a new four-year agreement “relating to the employment...
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United Kingdom: launch of consultation on protection against detriment for industrial action
The British government launched a public consultation on 26 February regarding new protections for workers against "detriment" related to industrial action, scheduled to take effect in October...
12 March 2026
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Germany: controversial collective bargaining compliance act adopted
On 26 February, the Bundestag approved the Tariftreuegesetz (collective bargaining compliance act), aimed at strengthening collective agreements and tackling social dumping by tying certain public...
26 February 2026