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Lithuania : Labour market office foresees 50000 job creations during 2007
e-europnews January 23rd 2007, n°070058 – www.eeuropnews.com
23 January 2007
EU: European social diary of January 15 to April 24th 2007
We provide you with a diary on the main events concerning social Europe and the institutional appointments. You can forward to us your scheduled events to the following address...
22 January 2007
Belgium: adoption of cross-industry agreement by the trade unions
Three Belgian trade-union confederations, the CSC, the FGTB and CGSLB adopted the cross-industry draft agreement decided on December 21st 2006 and which had been subjected to approval by member...
22 January 2007
Poland: cooperation agreement between “Solidarity” and the Belarus free trade union
"Solidarity" and the free Belarus trade union BKDZZ ("Congress of Belarus Democratic Trade unions) have just signed a cooperation agreement. The idea is to facilitate the exchange of information...
22 January 2007
EU: note on the informal meeting of the Employment and Social Affairs ministers
The social Ministers of the EU 27 met for the first time under the German Presidency for an informal council in Berlin on January 18, 19th and 20th 2007. They reaffirmed the need for Member...
22 January 2007
Great Britain: a review on practices as regards workplace representatives
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has published the conclusions of a broad investigation on companies' practices as regards workers' representation. This document, which must be used as a...
22 January 2007
Spain: CC.OO proposes to control the entry of labour immigrants by a system of annual quotas according to market demands
During the presentation of a working paper entitled "Immigration and labour market, proposal for the regulation of migratory flows", the secretary-general of the trade union CC.OO, Maria Fidalgo...
22 January 2007
Poland: the social pact of TP SA, discussion with Jacek Kallaur
The management of TP SA (France Telecom group) and the trade unions of the company have signed a social pact valid three years, on December 9th 2006 (see story n° 061253) and an implementing...
22 January 2007
Germany: the construction workers’ trade union asks for a 5.5% wage increase in 2007
The federal tariff commission (Bundestarikomission) of the IG BAU announced, on Thursday January 18th 2007, that it would request a wage increase of 5.5% for the 680 000 employees of the sector...
19 January 2007
Great Britain: Amicus wants to create a transnational trade union
Amicus, the most important trade union of the private sector, currently merging with the TGWU in order to create a huge trade union with 2 million members (see story n°061182), has also signed...
19 January 2007
EU: ETUC addresses memorandum to German Presidency on expectations regarding social matters
The European Confederation of the trade unions (ETUC) addressed to the new presidency of the European Union a memorandum in which it draws the attention of the presidency on the social priorities...
18 January 2007
Lithuania: trade unions oppose government’s plans to invite workers from non-European countries
Lithuanian trade unions categorically oppose the government's plans to call on employees from third countries. This plan aims at compensating the labor shortages due to the massive emigration of...
18 January 2007
Germany: the DGB wants a vast reform of the low-wages sector
During its annual press conference held on January 17th in Berlin, Michael Sommer, president of the German trade-union Confederation (DGB), asked the government for an in-depth reform of low wages...
18 January 2007
CJEC : States cannot exclude certain categories of workers from the calculation of staff numbers for information and consultation
The ordinance n°2005-892, taken by the French government, which excludes workers under 26 years old from the calculation of enrollment thresholds, used in particular for the setting up of work's...
18 January 2007
Luxembourg: transposition of the European directives relating to the fight against discriminations
The two European directives adopted in 2000 in order to fight against discriminations were finally transposed by Luxembourg by a law of November 28th 2006. It transposes directive 2000/43 from...
18 January 2007
Luxembourg: difficult negotiations on the collective agreement for the banking sector
The Association of Luxembourg banks and bankers (ABBL) considers necessary to reduce the wage bill in order to increase banks’ profits and recommends a deep reform of the methods of compensation...
17 January 2007
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
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