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France: Acorus makes four-day week permanent
On 12 December, French construction and civil engineering group Acorus (approximately 1,800 employees) signed an agreement with representative trade unions on the implementation of a four-day...
28 January 2026
Germany: IG Metall shelves four-day week demand
As the new government's stance in favour of greater flexibility and longer working hours for German workers fuels a growing debate, the IG Metall trade union has announced that it is shelving its...
28 May 2025
Germany: launches a four-day working week pilot programme
On 21 September 2023, consulting firm Intrapenör and the 4 Day Week Global association will be piloting a project to reduce working hours while maintaining full pay. Roughly fifty companies are...
19 September 2023
Great Britain: Lloyds Banking Group offering a four-day working week option
During the summer, the UK’s Lloyds Banking Group (60,000 employees globally) launched its new Flexibility Works policy, which will enable its UK employees to compress a five-day working week into...
30 August 2023
Four-day working week project starts in Brazil and ramps up in Portugal
Already tested in a dozen countries, the four-day working week is now being introduced in Brazil, where it will be rolled out during Q3 2023. Employees in pilot companies will be able to work at...
13 June 2023
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo agreement has been signed on the four-day working week and hybrid working
The agreement signed between Intesa Sanpaolo and the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions augments measures Italy's leading bank has been implementing since January 2023. In...
1 June 2023
Spain: entire city of Valencia tests the 4-day week for four consecutive weeks
In a municipal decision, the city of Valencia will see all businesses and public administrations close every Monday from 10 April until 07 May. The aim of this experiment is to test the impact of...
12 April 2023
Great Britain: positive results for the four-day working week
More than 90% of UK companies that took part in the four-day working week trial have decided to continue with the new working pattern. The results of the six-month large-scale test indicate a...
22 February 2023
Great Britain: Atom Bank permanently adopts the shorter four-day working week
After more than a year of testing the four-day working week, UK online retail bank Atom Bank has decided to permanently implement the shorter working period. As a reminder, the group started...
5 January 2023
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo officially launches the four-day working week
Despite a breakdown in negotiations with the trade unions, Italy's largest bank and largest private sector employer (74,000 employees) has decided to offer some of its employees the opportunity to...
3 January 2023
Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo proposes a 4-day working week to trade unions
As part of Italy’s leading banking group’s negotiations on work flexibility that it has recently started with the trade union bodies, the bank has made a number of proposals, including...
13 October 2022
Belgium : federal parliament officially adopts the ‘job deal’ bill
On 29 September Belgium’s parliament approved the ‘job deal’ bill that aims to adapt how work is organised in order to better suit current developments and to help achieve an employment rate of...
5 October 2022
Great Britain: positive results for the 4-day week at Atom Bank
At the end of August and following several months during which 4-day working week has been trialled, the app-based online bank operating in the northeast of England has concluded that the...
5 September 2022
Spain: Valencia region opens its door to the four-day working week
Spain’s Valencia region has published the details of a support mechanism to assist companies in reducing the number of staff working-hours. With it companies that move to a 32 hour working week...
5 July 2022
Portugal: piloting the four-day working week
Portugal is set to launch a pilot experiment to study new work organizations, which include the four-day working week and the use of hybrid working models (in-presence combined with telework). The...
31 May 2022
Great Britain: the 4-day working week soon to be tested in dozens of companies
Starting in June 2022, some UK employers will be offering staff the chance of a four-day working week while maintaining 100% pay. This is part of a six-month trial devised by the lobby group 4 Day...
20 January 2022
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France: La Poste to launch negotiations for an AI agreement
Following the lead of firms such as Axa, Syensqo globally, and more recently CDC Habitat, La Poste group management will open negotiations on an AI regulation agreement during the first half of...
5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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France: National Assembly votes for mandatory bargaining on sexual and gender-based violence
The news. On 8 October, French MPs voted to extend the scope of mandatory annual negotiations to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). In practice, in addition to pay, working hours and...
9 October 2026
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France: Iliad structures its skills management around AI
The news. On 9 April, Iliad (11,600 employees in France), the parent company of telecoms operator Free, concluded an agreement on jobs and career path management with its representative trade...
21 October 2026
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France: La Poste strengthens regional management of jobs and skills
La Poste’s 2026-2028 agreement on the management of jobs, professional pathways and gender diversity in occupations puts the emphasis on supporting mobility and career changes, relying on a...
22 October 2026
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France: how CDC Habitat aims to better promote the expertise of its employees
The housing division of the French public group Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, CDC Habitat (10,800 employees), established new measures on skills in July. They are set out in two agreements...
15 October 2026