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France: Airbus agreement for making up unworked hours during its production suspension period
On 20 March the Airbus Group signed an agreement that was supplemented on 26 March with an addendum treating unworked time (hours and days) due to the coronavirus pandemic. The addendum sets out a...
31 March 2020
France: temporary extension of short-time working measures
An ordinance to enact “emergency measures” related to short-time working, which was published in France’s official journal on 28 March (here), temporarily modifies the rules on how certain...
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30 March 2020
Spain: government halts all non-essential activities and bans redundancies resulting from consequences of the pandemic
On 29 March the Spanish government put the country into “hibernation” through a decree that only allows essential activities to continue, so as to limit the movement of people and therefore the...
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30 March 2020
EU: European Trade Union Confederation calls for efforts to protect jobs amid coronavirus pandemic
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected over half a million people and led to around 30,000 deaths across the globe, 18 European Union countries as well as Norway and the UK...
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30 March 2020
Germany: crisis agreements struck at Deutsche Telekom and ThyssenKrupp
Two new ‘crisis’ agreements, which were negotiated by video-conference, were announced last week at two major German companies in diverse sectors and differing economic conditions...
30 March 2020
United Kingdom: government relaxes law on paid leave in response to coronavirus crisis
On 27 March the UK government announced that, under the Working Time (Coronavirus) (Amendment) Regulations 2020, which will modify the Working Time Regulations 1998, employees will be able to...
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30 March 2020
Germany: chemical industry social partners strike crisis agreement
Social partners in Germany’s chemical industry, the IG BCE union and the employer confederation BAVC, this week unveiled a ‘crisis agreement’ that will apply until the end of the year. This...
27 March 2020
France: agreement reached at Thales to manage the continuation of business, as well as its decline, amid the ongoing health crisis
Signed on 26 March by all the representative trade union organisations within at Thales (the CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC and CGT), the purpose of the agreement at the aerospace group is “to govern the...
27 March 2020
United Kingdom: government to pay self-employed people impacted by coronavirus outbreak 80% of their profits
In the face of pressure from trade unions, the UK’s Conservative government extended its scheme to support jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, with the announcement on 26 March that it will also...
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27 March 2020
Estonia: government implements range of measures to help firms and workers cope with Covid-19 epidemic
To cope with the economic and social crisis caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the Estonian government has presented a set of measures to support companies and their employees, including the...
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27 March 2020
India: €20 billion aid programme launched for the poor
With the entire country under lockdown since midnight on Tuesday, following a spike in coronavirus cases, India’s government announced on Thursday a €20.6 billion aid programme to...
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27 March 2020
France: new partial unemployment regulations published
France’s Official Journal of 26 March published a decree that modifies arrangements for calculating State compensation allowances to be paid to employers operating under partial unemployment...
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26 March 2020
France: trade union call for shareholder solidarity support during the Covid-19 pandemic
On 25 March the CFDT trade union called for companies to abstain from paying dividends this a year that is beset by the negative consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘While the Covid-19 health...
26 March 2020
Italy: pressure from the trade unions sees the government further narrow the definition of the ‘essential productive activities’ that are authorized to operate
After marathon talks on 24 and 25 March with the Economy and Economic Development Ministries, the central trade unions CGIL, CISL, and UIL secured a revision to the definition of ‘essential...
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26 March 2020
Danone guarantees jobs and salaries to all its employees worldwide for 3 months.
On 26 March, during an interview on French radio (RTL), Emmanuel Faber, CEO of the French food group Danone, stated the following commitment on air, “All employment contracts at Danone and...
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26 March 2020
United States: Washington puts a $2 trillion stimulus package in place to cope with the economic consequences of Covid-19
Following intense negotiations (24 and 25 March) Washington’s Democrat and Republican Senators eventually came to agreement over a $2 trillion economic stimulus package, in what is the biggest...
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26 March 2020
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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...
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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
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EU: Commission proposes loosening of AI regulations
On 19 November, the European Commission published a proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying the AI Act in order to ‘ensure the swift, smooth and proportionate implementation’ of...
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EU: list of new CSRD reporting standards finalised
On 4 December, the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) presented the revised list of reporting indicators under the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which...
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EU: co-legislators strike agreement on Omnibus Directive
The European Parliament and the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the night of 8 December on the weakening of the directives on corporate sustainability reporting (CSRD) and corporate...
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Italy: three executives from luxury goods group Tod’s investigated over worker exploitation
Italian authorities are once again turning their attention to working conditions in the luxury goods supply chain. On 20 November, the Milan public prosecutor charged three senior executives of...
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28 November 2025
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Fashion brands accused of violating trade union freedoms in Asia
On 27 November, Amnesty International released a report denouncing widespread violations of trade union freedoms in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka by both governments and suppliers to...
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28 November 2025