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Germany: German unions converted to “organizing”
Organizing pressure groups beyond the labour sphere and creating a "social movement" around a claim, the "organizing" concept developed at the end of the 1980s by American unions seduced German...
EU: the European Commission proposed “flexicurity principles”
In a communication adopted on June 27, 2007, the European Commission defines the flexicurity concept and proposes common principles to help governments elaborate their national employment policy...
Suez: three transnational agreements to be signed
The French group Suez and the trade union organizations represented within the European dialogue body are going to sign, on July 3, 2007, three transnational agreements on a financial profit...
Belgium: elaboration of a tool in favour of equality between men and women.
A workgroup composed of social partners and the Institute for equality between men and women elaborated a new evaluation tool for wage categorization. It is the "no-sexism check list in the...
BASF EC: election of a special negotiations’ body to negotiate staff representation in the future European Company
Last June 12, staff representatives from the BASF group elected a special negotiations' body composed of 31 people coming from the group's different national companies. By the end of the year, it...
EU: European social partners from the railroad sector adopted recommendations in favour of women’s employment
European social partners from the railroad sector - the European union federation ETF and the managers' organization CER - signed, on June 12, 2007, in Rome, a series of recommendations to favour...
EU: joint declaration of European social partners on the postal sector’s evolution
After the vote of the members of the parliamentary Commission European Parliament Transportation, on June 18, 2007, in favour of the report on the liberalization of European postal markets by...
EU: ten member States did not transpose the directive which makes the training of truck drivers mandatory
The European Commission addressed, on June 27, 2007, a motivated notice to the ten member States because they have not notified the dispositions taken to comply with the directive 2003/59 on the...
Alcan-Alcoa: the European Metalworkers Federation gathered unionists from both groups
Whereas the hostile offer launched by the American aluminum maker Alcoa to its Canadian competitor Alcan ends on July 10, the European Metalworkers Federation (EMF) gathered on June 21 in...
Porsche: the car manufacturer adopted the status of European Company
During an extraordinary general assembly on June 26, 2007 in Stuttgart, the luxury German car manufacturer Porsche AG's shareholders gave the green light to the transformation of the company into...
Great Britain: BBC managers gave up their bonus, because they failed to reach their racial diversity goals
All of the BBC's big bosses, that it the nine leaders of the executive committee, just gave up almost 600.000 euros of bonus, despite the results which gave them this right, because they did not...
Great Britain: productivity is still lagging behind
British productivity remains well below that of other European countries, according to a study by the center of economic performance, bound to the prestigious London School of Economics. (Ref...
EU: the European Commission advocates anticipating restructurings
During the last "restructuring" forum, especially dedicated to anticipation, which took place on June 25 and 26, 2007 in Brussels, the European Commission insisted on the need to anticipate...
Germany: extension of the aid to build up a professional pension.
Pressure trade unions, employers and lobbies exercised apparently paid off. After years of talks, Franz Müntefering (SPD), federal minister of Labour and Social Affairs, declared on June 25, 2007...
Netherlands: KLM’s flying personnel is threatening to go on strike
The flying personnel of the airline company KLM-Air France (that is about 8.500 people in the Netherlands) voted on June 22, with a 93% majority, against the plan for the new collective agreement...
Slovakia: the most important changes proposed to the Labour Code
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