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Germany: the controversy over health insurance and retirement pensions resumes
Press review March 11 to 17, 2006. (Ref. 06266)
17 March 2006
Poland: Mittal Steel Poland guarantees employment until 2009
The management of Mittal Steel Poland and trade unions signed, March 16, 2006, an agreement guaranteeing employment for workers of IPS Groupe Service, one of its subsidiary companies, until 2009...
17 March 2006
Malta: public opinion unhappy with the pensions reform
The Maltese government’s project to reform retirement pensions causes many criticisms. This reform envisages to make complementary insurance compulsory and to gradually increase the retirement age...
17 March 2006
French Supreme Court validates the law on gender equality in terms of wages
The French "Conseil Constitutionnel" has approved, on 16 March 2006, the law on gender equality in terms of wages, which was passed last 23 February by the Parliament. But the Supreme Court did...
17 March 2006
Germany: Bundestag passes a law aimed at lowering seasonal unemployment for construction workers
A vast majority of the Bundestag passed a law, on 16 March 2006, aimed at fighting against the increasing number of seasonally-unemployed construction workers during winter months (please see our...
17 March 2006
Estonia : trade-unions fear a possible attack on their rights
The Estonian Ministry of Social Affairs has prepared the new draft Employees' Representatives Act, justifing the drafting of the new Act citing the need to transpose into Estonian legislation the...
17 March 2006
Belgium: brewery workers protest against InBev relocation plan
Brewery workers are furious because InBev, one of the biggest beer companies in the world, announced at the end of February that some administrative units will be reorganized, some of them will be...
17 March 2006
Germany: the labour market reform is better than its reputation according to the SPD
During a seminar organized on March 15, 2006 in Berlin by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, close to the Social democrat party (SPD), a series of experts (government, Bundestag, trade unionists...
16 March 2006
Slovene unions are no longer against work on Sundays
Trade unions and employers' organizations will start negotiations on the new collective agreement that will notably establish rules on Sunday and Holiday working hours in stores. (Ref. 06259)
16 March 2006
Hungary: negotiations begin at Suzuki Ltd
Negotiation have begun between the management of Hungarian Suzuki Ltd. and the employees, represented by the LIGA trade union, in order to solve the labor disputes and prevent them in the future...
16 March 2006
The Cottigny report on restructurings and employment is a big surprise
The final text thus goes much further that envisaged (see our article n° 06145) since it asks the Commission to intervene on two “taboo” subjects : restructurings and the revision of the directive...
16 March 2006
Great Britain: a study on the cost of employee fraud for their companies
The cost of fraud for companies increased by 30% over a year to reach almost 1 billion Pounds (nearly 1,5 billion euros) in Great Britain in 2005, according to an investigation of the accounting...
16 March 2006
Germany : lower Saxony, town-scale agreements in public service
After several weeks of strike, the trade union Ver.di and the town employers’ organization of Lower Saxony (KAV) have come to a compromise - on March the 15th - about weekly working time of...
16 March 2006
Czech Republic : German embassy in Prague says Czechs do not use all opportunities to work in Germany
German embassy in Prague claims that Czechs do not use all opportunities to work in Germany. (Réf. 06254)
15 March 2006
Germany : wage negociations in metallurgy become thougher
The conflict in the metallurgical industry , which counts 3.4 million workers in Germany, might get more intense. Faced with the absence of proposal from the employers, IG-Metall answers with a...
15 March 2006
Great Britain: the State is responsible for British employees’ retirement savings losses
Because its responsibility is involved in the disappearance of the retirement savings of almost 100.000 British employees, the government was asked, March 15, to grant compensation to the people...
15 March 2006
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Spain: new terms and conditions for in-company training contracts
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EU: Commission issues first recommendation on human capital as part of European Semester
In parallel with the European Semester adopted on 25 November, which proposes guidelines to member states on economic policies for the coming year, the European Commission has adopted an...
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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...
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