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International: unions ask G8 leaders for a fairer globalization
During a meeting of the Labour Secretaries from the G8 group, taking place since May 6 until todTuesday May 8, a union delegation gave to Angela Merkel, currently chairing the G8, its requests...
EU: the European Commission offered to improve the restructuring scheme in the sugar industry
The European Commission offered, on May 7, 2007, to amend the sugar industry's restructuring scheme, to encourage a larger number of producers to get out of this sector. The goal is to incite...
EU: the European Commission plans an improvement of employment between 2007 and 2008
According to the European Commission's spring economic forecasting, the EU's economy should increase of 2.9% in 2007 and 2.7% in 2008. The EU's unemployment rate should go under the 7% line in...
EADS: agreement to transform the European WC into a world group committee
The EADS group's management and its European works council signed, on April 26, 2007, a letter of intent to gradually open the European employees' representation body to other countries located...
EU: a quarterly study on reorganizations in Europe was published
The Dublin foundation has just published its quarterly report (*) on reorganizations in Europe. If job cuts remain important, their creations are nonetheless higher. (Ref. 070403)
British Airways: Brussels’ Labour court decision (in english) on a case between the EWC and the company
Brussels' labor court asked British airways (BA) on December 6, 2006, to stop transferring its customer service department from the Vienna airport to the Fraport company and to organize...
Great Britain: Michelin wants to close totally its company retirement scheme based on final salary
Michelin had already closed its retirement scheme based on final salary and seniority to newcomers as soon as September 2004, acting ahead of many British companies. Now the French company wants...
Germany: a pilot agreement was concluded in the Bade-Wurtemberg in the metallurgy sector
Avoiding the specter of a general strike in the metallurgy and electronics sectors, the union IG-Metall and the managerial organization Südwestmetall reached, on May 4, 2007, a wage agreement for...
Deutsche Telekom: the Ver.di union called upon the telephone company’s employees to vote for a strike
The German telephone company, Deutsche Telekom, is about to experience its first hard strike since it became private in 1995. After months of conflict on the transfer of 50,000 employees into a...
Austria : social partners agreed on the 60-hour week
The federal economic chamber (WK,) the Austrian trade union confederation, the federal workers' chamber and the agriculture chamber presented, on Thursday May 3, 2007, an important agreement on...
Slovakia: new labour code draft approved
Slovak government has unanimously approved draft amendment to the Labour Code. The amendment was drafed by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family and was now passed to the Parliament...
Great Britain: debate on the extension of the right to employment flexibility
Until now reserved for parents of children under six years old, the right to ask for the flexibility of their job was extended on April 6 to employees who are responsible for dependent person...
Belgium: towards a change in employees’ representation thresholds
The federal government launched, during the Ministers council last April 27, an ultimatum to employers and unions : they have to find, by May 31, 2007, a compromise on union representation in...
Oracle: negotiations on the establishment of a European WC failed
In an open letter to Oracle's management, the expert of the special negotiations body, Hellmut Gohde, took note of the end of negotiations, which started three years ago, indicating that the...
Great Britain: the Unite trade union is born
The Unite union was born on May 1st from the fusion between Amicus and the TGWU. The new organization, counting 2 million members, represents the first union power in the United Kingdom...
Italy: the government is forcing social partners to choose between pensions’ reform or the social protection of the young and unemployed
Atmosphere is getting tense within the tripartite negotiations' table union-state-management, negotiating the improvement of social protection, since the Minister of the Economy declared that he...
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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...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
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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...
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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...
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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...
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