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EU: the European Commission adopted three proposals concerning road transport
Loyal competition. Among the main measures, the company which wishes to have access to the transport operator occupation will now have to employ a transport manager to testify of his/her...
EU: the ETUC is getting ready for upcoming European meetings
Besides the new themes, such as sustainable development or the regulation of investment funds, on which it wants to take a stand for the next four years (see our story n°070451), the European...
EU: the ETUC’s congress is supporting Delphi’s Cadiz factory
The 700 union delegates participating in the ETUC's congress, taking place until May 24, in Seville, adopted a resolution to support the 1,600 workers from Delphi's Puerto Real (Cadiz) site, who...
Germany: the federal network agency is accusing the Deutsche Post and the Verdi union to lie about the question of social dumping
The report presented on May 21, 2007 in Bonn by the Bundesnetzagentur, the federal agency in charge of regulating the energy, telecommunication, and postal services markets, shows that the...
EU: the ETUC’s 11th congress launched the trade union organization on new project
The watchword of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) 11th congress – which is taking place in Seville until May 24 – also applies to the new topics the organization wants to invest. It...
Great Britain: the government is launching a consultation on minimum wage and illegal labour
Anxious to consolidate the legislative frame around minimum wage, the Ministry of Labour and Industry launched a consultation aiming at working out the means to guarantee fair compensation to...
Spain: two million open term contracts were signed since the reform of the labor market
One year after the agreement between the government and social partners for the reform of the labor market was signed, two million open term contracts were signed, according to the figures given...
Denmark: employers are powerless on their employees’ parental leaves
The Danish Supreme Court wiped out employers' hopes to have a say in the way their employees take their parental leave, even if it causes them troubles in their organization. Employers deplore...
EU: European trade unions are mobilized to defend the public postal service
European trade unions affiliated to the European federation UNI-Europa are considering the possibility to organize mobilization actions throughout all of the EU's countries in order to protest...
EU: the ETUC’s 11th Congress launched the offensive for a social Europe
The European trade union confederation (ETUC) 11th congress, which started today and will end on May 24, groups together 700 participants to define the strategy for European organization of the...
Delphi: the European federation of metalworkers is organizing a new action day
"We are currently confronted to the gradual dismantling to a large degree of Delphi's industrial activity in the EU", declared the European federation of metalworkers (EFM) about the American car...
Germany: the “Riester pension” is approaching the 8.5 million contracts mark
The complementary pension via capitalization adopted in 2002 is appealing to more and more Germans. After a sluggish start, the number of subscribers keeps increasing. For the first trimester of...
Belgium: a new regulations on employees’ support
A royal decree established new duties in terms of workers' welcome and support. This text imposes that the beginner's welcome and support by an experienced worker be organized. Moreover, the...
Tallink: unions are asking for the creation of a European work’s council
Together, sea workers unions from Estonia, Sweden and Finland asked the Estonian marine company Tallink – providing passenger transportation in the Baltic sea – to create a European work's...
Great Britain: a guide on the governance of defined benefits pension schemes
The British pension regulator elaborated a guide for trustees of defined benefits pension schemes confronted to the risk to see a member company's obligations or guarantees diminish, following a...
Great Britain: a consultation on paternity leave launched
The Minister of Labour and Industry launched, on May 14, a consultation on paid paternity leave, which should enable fathers, after six months, to take over from the mother, when the latter does...
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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...
9 December 2025
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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...
28 November 2025