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06/02/2012 France: cross-industry negotiations on competitiveness-employment agreements should start soon

Cross-industry negotiations on competitiveness-employment agreements and wages should start on February 17. On January 30, Prime Minister François Fillon sent a letter to the social partners asking them to ...

06/02/2012 Apple: China Labor Watch posts open letter to the CEO of Apple on Facebook

Li Qiang, founder of the China Labor Watch NGO, posted on Facebook an open letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. In substance, the activist is saying that the ...

06/02/2012 Estonia: unions mobilize against the bill on collective agreements

The debate has been launched in Parliament about the bill amending the Collective Agreements Act (kehtiv kollektiivlepingu Seadus). Unions are worried about this bill because it would allow businesses ...

03/02/2012 Netherlands: reforming the system to help disabled employees

On February 1, Paul de Krom, Secretary of State in charge of Employment and Social Affairs, presented the largest reform drawn up by the coalition currently in power. The ...

03/02/2012 EU: upload of the draft regulation on the protection of private data

On January 25, the European Commission adopted a proposed reform of the EU data protection regime. Proposed tools include a general EU framework for the protection of personal data ...

03/02/2012 Italy: launch of the Regional Observatory on Enel's working group in Latium

With the union agreement launching the Confederal Regional Observatory on industrial, environmental and employment policies for Enel in Latium, the Italian energy group is continuing its innovative policy aiming for ...

03/02/2012 Great Britain: My Civil Service Pension, first experiment for the "Big Society" concept by Prime Minister James Cameron

The Coalition government is to create one of the biggest experiments in public sector reform when, for the first time in central government, it converts part of the Department of ...

03/02/2012 Portugal: launch of the legislative procedure on the working time amendments coming from the social dialogue agreement

Following the social dialogue agreement reforming the Labor Code was signed in January 2012, the Council of Ministers of Portugal approved the cancellation of four national holidays (two religious ones) ...

02/02/2012 Belgium: the agreement signed by social partners in the temporary sector allows appealing to this form of contract for integration purposes

The social partners in the Belgian temporary industry signed, on January 31, an agreement which should update Belgian laws on temporary work. The text extends the field of appeal ...

02/02/2012 EU: first joint executive committee for the EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL to prepare their coming merger

The European trade union federations of metalworkers (EMF), chemical workers (EMCEF) and textile workers (ETUF:TCL) held their first joint executive committee this Tuesday. This meeting was the start of ...