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Germany: the automotive industry in between reducing reduced working hours and cutting jobs
Germany’s automotive industry is suffering and, according to its companies, does not envisage a return to pre-pandemic production levels before the 2023-2025. Considered too rigid over the long...
8 September 2020
Italy: dialogue resumes between Confindustria and the trade unions, opening the door for the renewal of several important collective agreements
On 07 September, and for the first time since May, Carlo Bonomi, president of the employers' organization Confindustria, met with the general secretaries of the trade unions Cgil, Cisl, and Uil...
8 September 2020
Great Britain: confusion reigns over the governments back to the office work plan
While the UK press had announced at the end of August that the Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson would be unveiling a ‘back to work’ plan, the government ended up denying it had any...
7 September 2020
Germany: Verdi and ING-Diba bank agree on an individual training budget that is unprecedented in the sector
On Tuesday 2 September, the trade union Verdi and the management of German bank ING-DiBa announced that they have signed an agreement on the details of the individual training budget instituted by...
7 September 2020
France: a recovery plan to promote ecological transition, economic sovereignty and competitiveness, with employment as a priority
100 billion euros is set to be injected into the economy until 2022 as part of the ‘France Recovery’ plan that the government presented on 03 September. From this more than 15 billion euros will...
3 September 2020
EU: very large EU trade union majority supporting an EU Directive for a minimum salary at a decent level
The answer to the question if the European trade union movement is working as one to support European legislation on decent minimum wages is ‘not quite’, but ‘almost’. On 03 September the European...
3 September 2020
UNI Global Union supporting its members to develop collective bargaining around algorithmic management tools
According to the global union federation of services, Uni Global Union, the use of Algorithmic tools by those in control must be ‘transparent, non-discriminatory, and negotiated with workers’. The...
2 September 2020
The Netherlands: tripartite agreement to extend support measures for companies dealing with a fall-off in business
The Dutch Temporary Emergency Bridging Measure for Sustained Employment (NOW, Tijdelijke Noodmaatregel Overbrugging voor Werkbehoud) that provides employee salary compensation support is to be...
2 September 2020
Germany: launch of country’s first pilot project on universal basic income
The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), one of the country’s five major economic institutes, is to launch what it calls “the first long-term study on unconditional basic income in...
1 September 2020
France: new health protocol for companies makes mask wearing mandatory in shared spaces
New health requirements at companies, in order to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, are in force from today, 1 September. Firms will also be allowed to “gradually” implement measures to supplement...
1 September 2020
India: sickness and maternity benefits proposal for the informal sector
India's Minister of Labour, Santosh Gangwar, announced to the press that he was looking to extend sickness and maternity benefits to a large proportion of workers in the informal sector. According...
31 August 2020
United States: former UAW president charged with embezzlement
Dennis Williams, the former president of the United Auto Workers (UAW) has just been charged with embezzlement of union funds, for which if found guilty could be facing a five year prison sentence...
31 August 2020
Argentina: state-owned bank Banco Nación introduces recruitment quota for trans people
At the beginning of August, the Argentinian state-owned bank Banco Nación announced an agreement that is unprecedented for the sector in Argentina: the establishment of a hiring quota for...
28 August 2020
EU: European Parliament working on draft directive on the right to disconnect
We reported in June that this initiative was in the pipeline (see article n°12024). At the end of July, MEP Alex Saliba, from Malta’s Labour Party, put forward a draft resolution on the right to...
27 August 2020
Italy: agreement on agile working and desk sharing at TIM (formerly Telecom Italia)
The leadership at Italian telecommunications group TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) penned an innovative agreement with the telecommunications sector trade unions that provides a framework for...
26 August 2020
Germany: debate over reducing working time and potential four-day week in automobile industry
In order to save Germany’s automobile sector, which has been hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis and the transition to electric vehicles, should working hours be reduced by reintroducing a four-day...
25 August 2020
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In 2025, for the first time, the universal registration documents of major European companies contain the sustainability reporting required by the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive...
31 October 2025
Candice Guillot, group director of employee experience and HR performance at Talan (7,000 employees), outlines for mind RH her vision and strategy for introducing artificial intelligence at the...
20 October 2025
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025
Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025
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France: generative AI and older workers central to BPCE’s skills management strategy
On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
15 October 2025