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Germany: wage negotiations begin in the metal industry
The German employers’ federation of the metal industry (Gesamtmetall) and the IG Metall trade union launched, on February 7, 2006, wage negotiations in this area which employs some 3,4 million...
Metal industry will play the game of European social dialogue
After having stared at one another for many years, European social partners of the Metal, Engineering and Technology-based industries, the CEEMET for employers and the European Metalworkers’...
Spain: the preliminary draft law on gender equality is submitted to social partners
On February 6, 2006, the government submitted its preliminary draft law for gender equality to social partners. Employers’ organizations and trade unions were gathered for their last scheduled...
Italy: a decree on training for security protagonists in the workplace
Last January 26, the "Permanent Conference between the State, Regions and the autonomous Provinces of Trento and Bolzano" which regulates the relationship between the State and local communities...
Hungary : information help-desks for the unemployed
With its program called "100 steps", the government aimed to improve the access to information for the unemployed who are looking for a job. (Ref. 06103)
Czech republic : government must decide this week of LG. Philips factory’s fate
The government must decide if it will or not grant financial assistance to support the rescue plan of the LG.Philips Czech factory -in suspension of payments since the end of January- and thus...
Germany: press review- January 30 to February 3, 2006
The debate over the government’s announcement to anticipate the raising of the retirement age to 67, and the labour dispute which is brewing in the German public sector because of the increase in...
Germany: the conflict continues at AEG in Nuremberg
The social conflict at AEG, subsidiary of Electrolux, looks like it is going to last. Negotiations between the management of the firm and trade unions were again stopped Thursday evening. They...
Poland : a bill to transpose the Directive on workers’ information and consultation
Poland is making up for the time lost in transposing the Directive on workers’ information and consultation (Réf. 0698).
Poland: the press points out the insufficiency of measures sanctioning moral harassment
With the rising number of legal actions supported by the increasing appearance of "anti-mobbing" associations, the Polish daily press underlines the inefficiency of the measures taken by the...
3 February 2006
Five eastern countries ask EU to open up labour market
The V4 (Visegrad countries: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia) and Slovenia’s Ministers of Labour Affairs have met in Budapest to discuss common and current issues. (Réf. 0694)
Germany : Government wants to raise retirement age to 67 years old by 2029
The parties ivolved in Angela Merkel’s big coalition government have decided to raise the retirement age to 67 years old (from 65 today) in 2029 instead of 2024. This has been anounced Wednesday...
Great-Britain: two unusual employment court orders
For the first time in England, an employee of the sex industry, who worked as an operator for a pink company of telephone, took her employer to court and won her lawsuit, last January 16, for...
Spain : the main social tasks of the Zapatero government for 2006
Often criticized because it is the worse country in terms of womens’emplyment rate (around 48%), Spain has made gender equality one of its priorities for 2006. The government has also decided to...
Finland : a work group composed of social partners wants more stocks in pension funds
The Finnish pensions system is composed of two sub-systems: the first one is linked to work income, is mainly financed by employers and employees, and is managed by private insurance companies...
Great Britain: 27 bills related to employment are on the Parliament’s agenda.
Curenntly, 27 bills that are somewhat related to the employment legislation are somewhere in the British Parliament. Some of them have already passed the third reading, whereas others are just...
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