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Vigeo is presenting a balance sheet of the CSR’s practices in multinational companies
During a conference-debate entitled "social dialogue and corporate social responsibility" organized by l'Observatoire de la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises (Orse,) on February 21, 2007, the...
22 February 2007
Germany: Franz Müntefering refused to hire 2,000 civil servants from the telephone company Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom (DT,) which is trying, by any means, to decrease its workforce, just went through a disappointment. According to the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , Franz Müntefering...
Great Britain: a Friday with no extra hours
Unions are asking employees not to be zealous, next Friday, to take a long lunch break, and to leave their office early, as part of a campaign entitled "Work your proper hours Day". It is their...
Spain: the government adopted the project to reform the social security
The government adopted, on Friday, February 16, a bill concerning the reform of the social security which uses a large part of the measures agreed upon by social partners last July. (See our...
UniCredit: analysis of the agreement on the setting of the European Work’s Council
The management of the Italian banking group UniCredit, born from the fusion, on November 18, 2005, of UniCredito Italiano Group and the HypoVereinsbank bank (HVB,) concluded an agreement on the...
Luxembourg: the government is assessing the situation on the introduction of a single status for employees
The Labor and Employment Minister, François Biltgen, and the Health and Social Security Minister, Marc Di Bartolomeo, presented, on February 15, 2007, the results of the discussions conducted with...
Belgium: the representatives’ Chamber adopted the bill on tender offers
The representatives' Chamber adopted, on February 15, 2007, the bill that will carry out the April 21, 2004 2004/25 directive concerning tender offers. The adopted text clarifies the system of...
EU: the European federal union EFFAT requires free movement of workers and equality of treatment for migrants
The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT) criticized, during a meeting in Budapest, on February 19 and 20, 2007, the attitude of member States and European institutions...
EU: the CJEC will rule on the conformity of the clauses on compulsory retirement with EU law on age discrimination
In its conclusions presented on February 15, the Advocate general Mazak offered the Court of Justice of the European Communities to declare that Spanish legislation allowing compulsory retirement...
Belgium: a new collective agreement on the prevention of theft and controls at the exit of the company or workplace
Social partners, who met within the National Labour Council (CNT,) ratified on January 30, the collective agreement n°89, relating to the prevention of theft and controls a the exit of the company...
Czech Republic : the new labour code is in force
The new labour regulations came into effect on January 1, 2007, as initially planned. In the deputies' chamber, the Right wing's efforts to postpone its implementation were vain and the Left...
Italy: several dispositions in terms of security at work
The 2007 finance bill includes several dispositions on health and security at work. They notably plan to extend the obligations of the prime contractors and increase certain fines if the...
Poland: excessive sick leaves are constantly increasing
Excessive sick leaves for non-professional illnesses are, from one year to the other, slightly but constantly rising in Poland. That is what the ZUS (the Polish social security) revealed in its...
Great Britain: a 3.5% increase in wages
The median growth of wages during the last three months is amounting to 3.5% when compared to the same time period a year earlier (from November to January,) according to a recent study from the...
Germany: the Bundesrat gave the green light to the health reform
Two weeks after it was adopted by the Bundestag, on February 2, 2007, the bill on the health reform was ratified, on February 16, by the Bundesrat, the chamber representing the Länder. This vote...
Belgium: new requirements for foreign independent workers and providers of services
To fight against social dumping, social fraud or the exploitation of foreign workers on the Belgian territory, the government elaborated a plan to improve the control of foreign activities in...
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