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Transposition of the EWC Directive
21/05/2013 - Italy - Amendments to Legislative Decree No. 74/2002, March 2011
25/04/2012 - New European Directive encourages creation of more, and more effective, European Works Councils (CLIP)
01/03/2012 - Polish transposition law of 1/12/2011 - only available in Polish
13/12/2011 - Finnish transposition law of the EU Directive 2009/38/EC (English unofficial translation)
24/11/2011 - Commission requests four countries to take on new rules for European Works Councils
02/11/2011 - France: publication of the decree on the composition of the Special Negotiating Body and of the EWC established without an agreement
28/10/2011 - Estonian transposition law (in English)
28/10/2011 - Lithuanian transposition law (in English)
27/09/2011 - transposition law 2009/38/EC - Austria now available in German and English
31/05/2011 - France: start of the consultation of the social partners on the draft ordinance transposing the EWC directive
12/05/2011 - Spain: adoption of the Act transposing the new EWC directive
15/04/2011 - Italy: social partners sign joint opinion for the transposition of the new EWC directive
14/04/2011 - Spain: adoption of the bill transposing the new EWC directive
08/04/2011 - Germany: Bundestag adopts bill transposing new EWC Directive
01/04/2011 - Slovakia: permanent adoption of the law on maternity leave, equal treatment and EWCs
17/01/2011 - France: Directive 2009/38 on EWCs (recast) to be transposed via ordinance
10/01/2011 - New rules for European Works Councils: report of the expert group to prepare the implementation of Directive 2009/38/EC
21/12/2010 - Germany: unions' view of the bill transposing the EWC directive
17/12/2010 - Germany: adoption of the bill transposing the EWC directive
20/09/2010 - UK transposition of directive 2009/38/EC
New agreements
07/06/2013 - Puma SE Works Council agreement of July 2011
07/06/2013 - Auchan EWC agreement of 17/5/1996 now avalable (in French only)
04/06/2013 - Securitas EWC agreement of November 2012 available in 12 languages
04/06/2013 - Tetra Pak European Council agreement of 14/6/2012
31/05/2013 - Lafarge global framework agreement on CSR and international industrial relations of 21/5/2013
31/05/2013 - Safran european framework agreement of 28/3/2013
31/05/2013 - Sauer-Danfoss EWC agreement of 6/6/2011
30/05/2013 - English translation of the Behr agreement of 1996 avilable
30/05/2013 - English translation of Ahlstrom agreement of 2002 now available
23/05/2013 - English translation of the Schur International EWC agreement of 1998 now available
23/05/2013 - English translation of EBR Amcor Europe Agreement of 2002 now available
14/05/2013 - UPS EWC agreement of 17/04/2012
14/05/2013 - Veolia Transdev EWC agreement of 16/07/2012
10/05/2013 - wording of the Rezidor EWC Agreement after Amendment in 2008
10/05/2013 - Kuehne & Nagel EWC agreement of Nov. 2012
10/05/2013 - SNCF EWC agreement of 6/12/2012 in French, with seat repartition and employee numbers per country
10/05/2013 - TNT EWC agreement of 05/02/2009
07/05/2013 - Cancom SE Works Council agreement signed 16/11/2012
07/05/2013 - Aperam EWC agreement of April 2013
07/05/2013 - Ardagh European Works Council Information and Consultation Agreement of 10/5/2012 in 13 languages
03/05/2013 - Ageas EWC agreement of 12/10/2010 now available in English and French
23/04/2013 - British Airways EWC agreement of 14/11/2012
23/04/2013 - Groupama EWC agreement of 22/11/2012
23/04/2013 - Hapag-Lloyd European Works Council agreement of 18/10/2011
15/04/2013 - Toyota European Forum agreement of 11/12/2009
28/03/2013 - Hannover Rück SE Works Council agreement of 23/1/2013
28/03/2013 - Helvetia EWC agreement of 15/5/2012
26/03/2013 - Inwido AB European Works Council agreement of 20/01/2012
25/03/2013 - Freudenberg SE Works Council agreement of 3/2012
25/03/2013 - Novartis EWC agreement of 1/2/2013
18/03/2013 - Low & Bonar Group European Works Council agreement of Nov. 2012
18/03/2013 - Low & Bonar Group European Works Council agreement of Nov. 2012
15/03/2013 - Docter Optics signed an SE Works Council agreement
08/03/2013 - D S Smith EWC agreement of 4/3/2013
08/03/2013 - Prysmian Group EWC agreement of 29/11/2012
08/03/2013 - Capio EWC agreement of 30/11/2012
08/03/2013 - Fedex EWC agreement of 2009
08/03/2013 - Groupama Joint declaration relative to quality of life at work of 15/2/2013
04/02/2013 - Mondelez International EWC agreeemnt of 2012
01/02/2013 - Kraft Foods EWC agreement of 2/2008
24/01/2013 - Plukon Food Group EWC agreement of 15/11/2012
24/01/2013 - Rheinmetall AG EWC agreement of 5/9/2012
29/11/2012 - framework agreement ZF Group 5/10/2011
29/11/2012 - Framework agreement on Health and Safety in Rheinmetall
26/11/2012 - Buzzi Unicem renewal of the EWC agreement, 21 November 2012
22/11/2012 - Borealis EWC agreement of 24/2/2011
08/11/2012 - Bouygues renewed EWC agreement signed 16/10/2012
08/11/2012 - Amendment of 8 October 2012 to the Total EWC agreement
23/10/2012 - A. Porr EWC agreement of 11/7/2012 (German version) is now available
18/10/2012 - Nobia renewed EWC agreement of September 2012
16/10/2012 - Nacco materials handling group EWC agreement of 2/6/2010
04/10/2012 - Silgan White Cap agreement now available in English
20/07/2012 - Cémoi european works council agreement of April 2012 (french version only)
12/07/2012 - Colt EWC agreement of March 2012
12/07/2012 - amendment to Deutsche Post EWC agreement of 2003
12/07/2012 - BNP Paribas European Social Charter of 10/7/2012
10/07/2012 - Deutsche Post DHL Forum agreement concluded
06/07/2012 - Lisega SE Works Council agreement of Dec. 2010
06/07/2012 - Nordex SE Works Council agreement of 2010
06/07/2012 - Goldbeck SE Works Council agreement of 2010
03/07/2012 - Coface EWC agreement of 20/6/2008, in English, French and German
03/07/2012 - Webasto Roof & Components SE Works Council agreement of March 2012
03/07/2012 - Webasto Thermo & Comfort SE Works Council agreement of March 2012
03/07/2012 - Webasto SE Works Council agreement of March 2012
02/07/2012 - GEA EWC agreement of 23/8/2011 (in German)
26/06/2012 - Rio Tinto EWC agreement of 20/12/2011
26/06/2012 - Collective agreement on transnational information and consultation in Glaverbel
25/06/2012 - Ideal Standard EWC agreement now available in 12 languages
22/06/2012 - Generali renegotiated EWC agreement of 4/5/2012
22/06/2012 - Deutsche Bahn EWC agreement of 21/3/2012
18/06/2012 - Rentokil EWC agreement of 1999 (Dutch version)
18/06/2012 - Komatsu EWC agreement of 9/6/2006
15/06/2012 - Amendment nr. 3 of 5/2010 to the EWC agreement of BNP Paribas (french only)
15/06/2012 - protocol agreement on renewal of EWC in Société Générale (April 2008) french only
12/06/2012 - Carrefour amendment of 19/10/2011 to EWC agreement
12/06/2012 - Coca-Cola Enterprises renegotiated EWC agreement of 29/9/2011
12/06/2012 - Société Générale amendment of 29/4/2010 to EWC agreement (French only)
11/06/2012 - GDF Suez Group European Agreement on Professional equality between women and men
07/06/2012 - SAP European Works Council agreement of 24/11/2011
04/06/2012 - Huntsman EWC agreement of 2011 available in several languages
01/06/2012 - Ferrovial International framework agreement
01/06/2012 - Vorwerk EWC agreeement of 2/5/2012
01/06/2012 - ENEL renewal of the EWC agreement (12/2011)
24/05/2012 - Odeon UCI EWC agreement of May 2011
22/05/2012 - Bonduelle EWC agreement of 24/6/2011 (Polish version only)
21/05/2012 - Ideal Standard International EWC agreement of July 2011
14/05/2012 - Inditex - framework agreement of May 2012
11/05/2012 - 2010 amendment to Bonduelle EWC agreement
08/05/2012 - Ford International Framework Agreement of 25/4/2012
03/05/2012 - BDR Thermea Group EWC agreement of September 2011
27/04/2012 - Aliaxis EWC agreement of 24/04/2012
27/04/2012 - Vogt Electronic EWC agreement of 2008
30/03/2012 - BMT Group European Works Council agreement of 11/2011
27/03/2012 - Luvata EWC agreement of 2007
27/03/2012 - amendment to Solvay EWC agreement of Jan 2012
27/03/2012 - Solvay EWC agreement - prolongation June 2011- May 2014
19/03/2012 - EWC installation agreement of Econocom (31/8/2006), French version
06/03/2012 - Joint Declaration on Human Rights and Working Conditions in the MAN Group
05/03/2012 - Leroy Merlin AWC agreement of July 1996 available (only in French)
01/03/2012 - Randstad EWC agreement of November 2011
28/02/2012 - Georgia-Pacific EWC agreement of 28/10/2008
24/02/2012 - TNT EWC agreement of 05/02/2009
24/02/2012 - Deutsche Bahn EWC agreement of 19/7/2006
23/02/2012 - IKEA EWC agreement of 19 September 2011
23/02/2012 - H&M EWC agreement of 7/2/2007
23/02/2012 - H&M EWC agreement of 15/11/2004
15/12/2011 - Sodexo: new international framework agreement on fundamental rights at work
13/12/2011 - SAP: new agreement establishing a EWC
06/12/2011 - Coca Cola Communication Forum agreement of 10/6/2011 (in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French)
05/12/2011 - INEOS EWC agreement of June 2007
02/12/2011 - amendment to EWC agreement of Renault (27/5/2011) French version only
02/12/2011 - Renault EWC agreement of 26/4/2007 (French version only)
28/11/2011 - Austria: 4.15% wage increase in the temporary sector
28/11/2011 - Goethe-Institut EWC agreement of 14/1/2011 (German)
15/11/2011 - amendment to the EWC agreement of FSD group (2009)
07/11/2011 - Ter Beke EWC agreement of 29/9/2011 available in Dutch and English
27/10/2011 - Cementir Group European Works Council agreement of 26/10/2011 now available in IT, EN, DK
20/10/2011 - Italcementi EWC agreement of 12/10/2011 now available in Italian, French and Spanish
11/10/2011 - Memorandum of understanding between CIETT Corporate members & Uni Global Union on Temporary agency work (2008)
11/10/2011 - European Appendix to ABB Social Policy - substantive agreement of 2009
10/10/2011 - Danone: global agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress
07/10/2011 - Danone agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress (26/9/2011)
26/09/2011 - Recticel renegotiated EWC agreement of 15/9/2011
26/09/2011 - Wienerberger renegotiated EWC agreement of 20/9/2011
26/09/2011 - Unilinreneotiated EWC agreement of 23/9/2011
15/09/2011 - Lafarge Joint declaration concerning Health, Safety and Hygiene of June 2011 now available in Slovenian, Romanian, Polish, Greek, Spanish, English, German and Czech
15/09/2011 - Lafarge renegotiated EWC agreement of June 2011 now also available in Czech, English, German, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian and Spanish
15/09/2011 - Substantive agreement on Diversity - Bayer European Forum
08/09/2011 - Vinci European Works Council agreement of 3/2010 now available in English
26/08/2011 - Takeda group EWC agreement of May 2011
25/07/2011 - Renolit SE agreement on worker participation of 11/2010
20/07/2011 - REPower Systems SE Works Agreement of May 2011
19/07/2011 - Bonduelle EWC agreement of 6/2005
19/07/2011 - UTC Fire & Security EWC agreement of 3/2009
13/07/2011 - EADS: new European agreement on success-sharing
13/07/2011 - Deutsche Telekom: unions file complaint with the OECD against Deutsche Telekom
28/06/2011 - ST-Ericsson European Works Council agreement of June 2011
24/06/2011 - Lafarge update of the EWC agreement of 2011
24/06/2011 - Sidel EWC agreement of 1/7/2010
24/06/2011 - ST Ericsson: establishment of an EWC
10/06/2011 - Metro agreement on the Euro Forum of 2005
31/05/2011 - Allianz SE Agreement on Guidelines concerning Work Related Stress of 5/2011
30/05/2011 - San Benedetto European Works Council agreement of April 2011
26/05/2011 - Allianz SE: the management and the EWC sign a European agreement against stress
20/05/2011 - Consolis EWC agreement of 2009
19/05/2011 - PCC Se Works Council agreement of 2006
19/05/2011 - Prosafe SE Works Council agreement of 2007
17/05/2011 - James Hardie SE Works Council agreement of 2010
16/05/2011 - Air France KLM framework agreement of 31/3/2010
13/05/2011 - EU: ETUC 12th Congress to open in Athens on may 16th
09/05/2011 - Shauenburg Technology SE Works Council agreement of 2009
09/05/2011 - Ferrero renewed EWC agreement of 4/2011
09/05/2011 - SCA Hygiene Products SE Works Council agreement of 2009
06/05/2011 - Unibail-Rodamco SE WC agreement of February 2009
28/04/2011 - Sitel EWC installation agreement
01/04/2011 - Agreement on the Involvement of Employees in BP Europa SE - 13/1/2010
01/04/2011 - ElectronicPartner Handel SE Works Council agreement of 8/7/2009
01/04/2011 - Elster SE works council agreement of September 2009
01/04/2011 - Agreement on the Involvement of the Employees within Equens SE (2008)
15/03/2011 - Mutavie SE Works Council agreement 5/11/2009
15/03/2011 - Eiffage: agreement renewing the EWC
04/03/2011 - Carl Zeiss EWC agreement of 8/10/2010
08/02/2011 - Norauto EWC agreement of 17/6/2010
18/01/2011 - Pfizer EWC - agreement on integration of Wyeth European Forum
18/01/2011 - BNP third amendement to EWC agreement, 2010
18/01/2011 - Autogrill renewed EWC agreement 2010
14/01/2011 - Donata Holding SE Works Council agreement of 2007
13/01/2011 - Curt Richter SE-Beteiligungsvereinbarung of 13/10/2008
12/01/2011 - Cloppenburg Automobil SE Works Council agreement of 10/2009
11/01/2011 - Clariant SE Works Council agreement of April 2010
09/12/2010 - Ergo Insurance addendum to voluntary agreement on cross-border information of the employees
09/12/2010 - UPS - EWC agreements of 199, 2002, 2004 and 2007
26/11/2010 - Loomis EWC agreement of 12/2009
17/11/2010 - Tesco EWC agreement of November 2009
15/11/2010 - Imerys renewal of the EWC agreement (April 2010), available in french only
20/09/2010 - Jacobs Engineering EWC agreement of 2009
17/09/2010 - Silgan White Cap EWC agreement of 30/10/2009
16/09/2010 - Imtech EWC agreement of 4/4/2007
16/09/2010 - Biomet EWC agreement of 19/6/2008 (French only)
23/08/2010 - Sappi Fine Paper EWC agreement of 28/4/2010
17/08/2010 - OMV EWC agreement of 2006 (German only)
17/08/2010 - Schur EWC agreement of 1998 (in Danish and German)
17/08/2010 - ENI EWC renewal agreement (2010)
22/07/2010 - Akzo Nobel 2009 Rules of Procedure of the EWC
09/07/2010 - Renold plc EWC agreement of 1999 now available
09/07/2010 - Jysk Nordic EWC agreement of 18/6/2010
06/07/2010 - Selex Galileo EWC installation agreement of 17/12/2009
06/07/2010 - Agco European Works Council Agreement of 17/2/2009
06/07/2010 - RCS EWC agreement of 10/7/2009
02/07/2010 - VINCI EWC agreement of 17/3/2010 (French only)
02/07/2010 - VINCI amendment to EWC agreement of 17/3/2010 (french only)
02/07/2010 - Swedwood Global Works Council agreement of 28/4/2010
22/06/2010 - 28/4/2010 - Air France KLM Group renegotiated agreement
22/06/2010 - 2/4/2009 - renegotiated agreement of MOL Magyar Olaj- és Gázipari (HU)
22/06/2010 - 16/6/2009 - renegotiated agreement of FrieslandCampina
10/06/2010 - Renewal EWC agreement in Caterpillar (available in Italian only)
01/04/2010 - English translation of PEAB EWC agreement of 16/5/2008
30/03/2010 - the Nielsen Company EWC agreement of 22/1/2009
12/03/2010 - Myllykoski EWC renegotiated agreement of 8/5/2007
11/03/2010 - Renewed EWC agreement for Bayer
01/03/2010 - Unions sign Transnational Agreements with Gdf-Suez
23/02/2010 - International Paper signs EWC agreement
05/02/2010 - Aurubis EWC agreement of 8/10/2009 - only in German
02/02/2010 - TeliaSonera renewal of EWC agreement 1/4/2009
30/11/2009 - Volkswagen Charter on Labour Relations (29/10/2009)
30/11/2009 - Sony - renegotiated EWC agreement of 27/9/2007
30/11/2009 - Verizon EWC agreement of 1/10/2008
25/11/2009 - Gras Savoye signs new EWC agreement on 6 November 2009
24/11/2009 - Amadeus agreement of 30/4/ 2009 available in English and French
24/11/2009 - ThyssenKrupp internal rules of 14/10/2009 available only in German
09/11/2009 - EWC installation agreement of RBC Dexia Investor Services (2006)
29/10/2009 - Lenze SE WC agreement of 31/7/2009
19/10/2009 - Enersys European Forum agreement of 7/6/2006
15/10/2009 - Flextronics EWC agreement of 26/3/2009
05/10/2009 - Rio Tinto agreement of June 2008 translated in English
01/10/2009 - AXA agreement of 29/06/2009
01/10/2009 - UniEuropa press release on the new Axa EWC agreement
28/09/2009 - Frauenthal EWC agreement of 3/7/2008
24/09/2009 - SAB Wabco EWC agreement of October 2008
22/09/2009 - MAN SE Works Council agreement of 19/2/2009
21/09/2009 - Vogt SEWC agreement of 21/7/2008
21/09/2009 - Deichmann SE Works Council agreement of November 2008
18/09/2009 - Wacker Neuson SE Works Council agreement of January 2009
18/09/2009 - Colgate-Palmolive agreement of July 2009
18/09/2009 - Total amendment of 29/6/2009 to the EWC agreement
18/09/2009 - amendment of 17/4/2009 to the l'Oréal EWC agreement
18/09/2009 - Lennox EWC installation agreement of 20/1/2009
17/09/2009 - DVB Bank SE Works Council agreement of 2008
15/09/2009 - Adecco EWC agreement of 1999 now available
14/09/2009 - SGL Carbon SE WC agreement of 22/12/2008
28/08/2009 - 7th amendment (20/5/2009) to Saint-Gobain agreement
18/08/2009 - Siemens agreement of 8/5/2003 now available in English
18/08/2009 - Buzzi Unicem agreement of 18/6/2008 now available in English
18/08/2009 - TT Electronics EWC agreement of 2006
23/07/2009 - HAWE Holding SE agreement of 2008
23/07/2009 - Interseroh SE signs agreement on worker participation (in German)
23/07/2009 - RKW SE signs agreement on worker participation (2008, in German)
23/07/2009 - Europcar declaration on respect of social rights
23/07/2009 - Protocol on Health and Safety at work in ILVA (in Italian only)
20/07/2009 - Q-Cells SE agreement on worker participation
20/07/2009 - Thomas Cook Group agreement of March 2009
03/07/2009 - Allianz Shared Infrastructure Services agreement of 06/11/2008
29/06/2009 - N&W Global Vending agreement of 08/04/2009
29/06/2009 - Stena agreement of 12/05/2009
23/06/2009 - Akzo Nobel agreement of April 2009
18/06/2009 - Quebecor EWC changes name to Circle Printers EWC
15/06/2009 - Johnston Press Group EWC agreement of 26/09/2008
12/06/2009 - Timken EWC agreement of 01/09/2008
09/06/2009 - GDF Suez signs new EWC agreement on 06/05/2009
09/06/2009 - final draft amendment nr. 7 to Saint-Gobain EWC agreement
08/06/2009 - Elanders EWC agreement of 27/01/2009
02/06/2009 - Itella installation agreement of 19/6/2008
11/05/2009 - Securitas renegotiated EWC agreement of Nov. 2008
07/05/2009 - Petroplus EWC agreement signed in June 2008
28/04/2009 - e.on Energy Trading signs SE Works Council agreement on 16/4/2009
21/04/2009 - tesa 2008 SE Works Council agreement
02/04/2009 - 2009 amendment n°6 to Saint Gobain EWC agreement (French version)
03/03/2009 - 2008 EWC agreement of Mecom
27/02/2009 - 2004 amendment to EWC agreement of Carestel of December 2002
27/02/2009 - 2007 EWC agreement of Swedish Match
27/02/2009 - 2004 EWC agreement of GE Power Controls
27/02/2009 - 1999 EWC agreement of GE Power Controls
24/11/2008 - BCD Travel EWC agreement of 6/3/2008
24/11/2008 - TUI renewed agreement signed on 17 June 2008
24/11/2008 - My Travel EWC agreement (draft version) of 2004
24/11/2008 - Rio Tinto EWC agt of June 2008 (French version)
24/11/2008 - Elior EWC agreement (french version) of 2005
24/11/2008 - Safran agreement of July 2008 (french version)
17/11/2008 - French translation of the Transcom agreement of 2/7/2008
17/11/2008 - Thomas Cook agreement now available in Spanish, French, Finnish and Greek
24/10/2008 - Compass EWC renewal of Nov 2004
24/10/2008 - Agreement regarding the transnational transfer of Starwood Employees
20/10/2008 - Transcom sets up EWC four years after first official request
16/10/2008 - Holcim 2004 European Forum agreement
28/08/2008 - Agreement on the AgustaWestland European Forum signed on 17/7/2008
22/08/2008 - GlaxoSmithKline agreement of 20/1/2004
21/08/2008 - Klöckner & Co SE agreement of 30/6/2008
21/08/2008 - Avaya EWC agreement of 28/6/2007
21/08/2008 - Agreement on the dormant status of the EWC agreement in Milacron
21/08/2008 - SNA Europe EWC agreement of 30/3/2006
19/08/2008 - Safran establishes EWC after the Snecma-Sagem merger
19/08/2008 - EDS renewal agreement of 14/7/2005
19/08/2008 - Schering Plough renewal agreement 14/11/2007
19/08/2008 - Aker ASA EWC installation agreement of 24/5/2005
19/08/2008 - Schneider agreement of 5/6/2007
19/08/2008 - Sauer-Danfoss agreement of 29/11/2007
19/08/2008 - Danfoss amendment of April 2007 to EWC agreement
19/08/2008 - Honeywell agreement of 13/9/2005
19/08/2008 - HP amendment of 2004 to the EWC agreement
19/08/2008 - KCI Konecranes renewal agreement 20/6/005
18/07/2008 - Beaulieu International Group EWC agreement of 28/2/2008
18/07/2008 - Renewed GKN European Forum Agreement of April 2007
17/07/2008 - Bouygues EWC agreement of 19/2/2008 now available in 7 languages
11/07/2008 - Danske Bank Group EWC agreement signed 12/2007
11/07/2008 - Agreement on social guarantees for Suez Group employees of June 2008
04/07/2008 - Vallourec framework agreement on principles of responsibility signed in April 2008
04/07/2008 - ArcelorMittal's global agreement on health and safety at work, June 2008
04/07/2008 - ICEM Global Framework agreement with RAG of 2003
04/07/2008 - ISS - UNI Global Agreement of 3 June 2008
01/07/2008 - Monier EWC agreement of 17/6/2008
01/07/2008 - Panasonic renewal agreement of 8 February 2008
20/06/2008 - Buzzi Unicem signs EWC agreement on 18 June 2008
16/06/2008 - TNS EWC agreement of 2002
13/06/2008 - Covidien EWC agreement of 2007
13/06/2008 - amendment to the Indesit EWC agreement
13/06/2008 - Husqvarna EWC agreement of 15/11/2006
13/06/2008 - renewal agreement Electrolux of November 2006
13/06/2008 - Schaeffler Group EWC agt of October 2007
13/06/2008 - ST Microelectronics renewal agreement of Oct 2003
13/06/2008 - Addendum of June 2004 to KONE agreement
12/06/2008 - EWC agreement of CLAAS, signed 30/6/2006 (in German only)
30/05/2008 - Tyco International agreement of 2007 now available
29/05/2008 - English translation of Eriks agreement of 2005 now available
29/05/2008 - English translation of Reno De Medici agreement of 2003 now available
26/05/2008 - BP signs agreement with EWC regarding future restructuring
22/05/2008 - RPC EWC installation agreement now available in German
22/05/2008 - BBVA EWC installation agreement of 03/06/2004 now available in English
22/05/2008 - English translation of TRW Automotive Forum agreement of 26/06/2003 now available
22/05/2008 - Novartis Euroforum agreement of 2004 now available in German
22/05/2008 - English translation of Goss International EWC installation agreement now available
22/05/2008 - renewal agreement of Mark IV (2001) now available in English
19/05/2008 - French and Spanish version of Forbo agreement of 21/11/2003 now available
19/05/2008 - Renewal agreement of 25/6/2004 in ENI available in Italian
13/05/2008 - Clariant agreement of 5/6/2007
13/05/2008 - Eltel Networks Group installation agreement of 3/11/2005
13/05/2008 - Kemira agreement of 14/6/2006
08/05/2008 - English translation of Conserve Italia agreement available
08/05/2008 - English translation of Avecia agreement available
08/05/2008 - English translation of Alitalia agreement available
08/05/2008 - English translation of Bahslen agreement available
08/05/2008 - West Pharmaceutical Services signs EWC agreement on 31 March 2008
06/05/2008 - English translation of the DURA agreement of 2003 is now available
29/04/2008 - Wyeth (former American Home Products Corporation) agreement of 1996 and renewal of 2001 now available
10/04/2008 - English translation of the Kaefer agreement of 11/9/2007 now available
08/04/2008 - Thomas Cook Group signs EWC agreement in March 2008
08/04/2008 - amendment of 10/5/2006 to agreement in Thomson now available (French version only)
08/04/2008 - Panasonic signs new agreement in February 2008
06/03/2008 - A&R Carton European Works Council agreement of 2002 now also available in German
06/03/2008 - English translation of the Pfleiderer EWC agreement of 2007 is now available
03/03/2008 - original French version of the Total EWC agreement of 2005 now available
29/02/2008 - SCA EWC agreement of 2003 now available in German, Spanish, Finnish, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Slovenian
29/02/2008 - EDF Agreement of 2005 now available in Hungarian, Polish and Slovak
29/02/2008 - Gaz de France agreement of 2001 now available in French, German, Italian, Dutch and Hungarian
28/02/2008 - English translation of Saica EWC agreement now available
28/02/2008 - English translation of Bauer EWC agreement now available
28/02/2008 - English translation of Mediaset EWC agreement now available
28/02/2008 - English translation of STMicroelectronics EWC agreement now available
28/02/2008 - English translation of Bormioli EWC agreement now available
28/02/2008 - English translation of Italcementi EWC agreement now available
22/02/2008 - Amcor agreement of 23/10/2002 now available in Dutch, French and Spanish
22/02/2008 - A&R Carton agreement of 2002 now also available in original Swedish version
21/02/2008 - Chesapeake EWC agreement also available in German, Spanish and Dutch
21/02/2008 - English translation of Koninklijke Bam agreement now available
21/02/2008 - English translation of ISEO agreement now available
21/02/2008 - English translation of Valeo agreement now available
21/02/2008 - Quebecor World agreement of 5/3/2003 now available (French version only)
21/02/2008 - Lecta EWC agreement of 24/10/2000 now available in French, English and Spanish
18/02/2008 - Generali renews EWC agreement
18/02/2008 - Nalco signs EWC agreement on 13/02/2008
14/02/2008 - CPI agreement now available in English
14/02/2008 - Crédit Agricole signs EWC agreement
14/02/2008 - Port & Freezone (P&O) agreement of May 2007 now available
12/02/2008 - Veolia Environment agreement of 10/10/2005 now available in several language versions
01/02/2008 - Third amendment to the Transdev EWC agreement
11/01/2008 - Chevrillon Philippe Industrie (CPI) signs EWC agreement
11/01/2008 - Danone signs global agreement on diversity
11/01/2008 - Starwood EWC regulates posting abroad
03/12/2007 - Atos Origin EWC agreement now available in English
27/11/2007 - Hager SE signs new EWC agreement
22/11/2007 - BASF SE pioneers stronger worker consultation in Europe
21/10/2007 - ArcelorMittal: new EWC agreement after the merger
Events
06/06/2013 - Germany: Karstadt, Amazon…, the Verdi union is fighting several battles to improve collective agreements in retail trade
06/06/2013 - Sweden: fashion and textile businesses sign agreement that tries to take low wages into account
28/05/2013 - Germany: Volkswagen workers get a 5.6% wage increase and improved company pension
28/05/2013 - Hannover Re: agreement on employee involvement in the European Company
22/05/2013 - Lafarge: new global framework agreement on CSR and international industrial relations
20/05/2013 - Germany: 3% wage increase for Postbank employees
20/05/2013 - Italy: Enel signs two framework agreements on the management of ‘surplus’ workers
14/05/2013 - Germany: strike takes trial of strength between Verdi union and Amazon on collective agreement to the next level
14/05/2013 - Spain: Holcim, one of the first large businesses in Spain to provide a true outplacement program to its outgoing employees
14/05/2013 - Italy: Vodafone Italia signs agreement “redefining wage costs” and dealing with 700 ‘surplus’ workers
02/05/2013 - Germany: mini-increase in return for job security at Lufthansa
02/05/2013 - Germany: mini-increase in return for job security at Lufthansa
29/04/2013 - Germany: 5.7% increase over 26 months for Deutsche Post employees
29/04/2013 - Germany: 5.7% increase over 26 months for Deutsche Post employees
23/04/2013 - Spain: competitiveness agreement at Ford Almussafes
23/04/2013 - Italy: Finmeccanica signs agreement on new industrial relations system to better manage future restructurings and improve competitiveness
23/04/2013 - BASF and the Catalonian Government (Spain) agree to the first dual training program at the transnational scale
23/04/2013 - Spain: competitiveness agreement at Ford Almussafes
23/04/2013 - Italy: Finmeccanica signs agreement on new industrial relations system to better manage future restructurings and improve competitiveness
18/04/2013 - Aperam: establishment of a European Works Council
17/04/2013 - Italy: GDF SUEZ Energia Italia tries telework as an alternative to transfers following from restructuring
16/04/2013 - Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo Group signs framework agreement managing 600 job cuts
12/04/2013 - Germany: no economic layoffs at Vattenfall until February 2017
11/04/2013 - Germany: Coca-Cola employees get employment guarantee until the end of 2014
10/04/2013 - Germany: Amazon employees mobilized to force the American management to recognize the collective agreements in force in retail trade
10/04/2013 - Italy: new American Express agreement banks on more flexibility and stronger social policy
09/04/2013 - Spain: Opel Figueruelas signs new competitiveness agreement
08/04/2013 - France: Michelin signs framework agreement introducing negative time savings account
04/04/2013 - Italy: SKF Group signs agreement replacing conventional wage increases with two bonuses linked with productivity and profitability
29/03/2013 - Germany: company agreement on demography for 15,000 employees at Continental’s Rubber Group
29/03/2013 - Spain: Telefónica guarantees employment for a year in exchange for wage moderation and savings on pensions
28/03/2013 - Spain: Caixabank reaches agreement on social plan based on early retirement and voluntary leave
28/03/2013 - Germany: IG-Metall management accepts ‘rescue’ agreement without Bochum plant
28/03/2013 - Safran: European framework agreement for professional integration of young people
26/03/2013 - Italy: cement employers and unions reach unitary agreement renewing the sector's national collective agreement
26/03/2013 - Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena
25/03/2013 - CSM announces intended divestment of its bakery supplies businesses to Rhöne Capital
25/03/2013 - TNT Express to cut 6 percent of workforce
25/03/2013 - Fiat/Chrysler and CNH: international union network agrees to organize mobilization week for employment and working conditions
22/03/2013 - Germany: no predicting the future of Opel's Bochum plant now that employees have rejected the agreement for the future
21/03/2013 - Corporate practices: Repsol attracts and retains people with "different abilities" beyond statutory requirements
20/03/2013 - Corporate practices: SEUR, the transport company, cares for employee retention from the very start of the employment relationship
19/03/2013 - EU: European electricity social partners set training as their priority
18/03/2013 - Italy: Electrolux and unions sign agreement on strategy out of the crisis
18/03/2013 - Belgium: Ford Genk's social plan gives subcontracting staff the same conditions as direct employees
15/03/2013 - DS Smith: EWC agreement renewed
15/03/2013 - Codere: first international framework agreement in the gaming industry
14/03/2013 - EU: new European action day on March 13-14
14/03/2013 - France: WC information/consultation procedure may be cancelled if information was improperly listed as confidential
14/03/2013 - Germany: two Federal Labor Court rulings on agency workers will increase the size of works councils and lead to wage adjustments for thousands of temporary workers
11/03/2013 - Daimler: the auto group wants more international management
11/03/2013 - China: interview with Martin Leÿs, HRD of EDF in Asia, about the collective agreement signed by the French power producer - the first agreement signed by a foreign company in China
11/03/2013 - Spain: Iberia management and unions sign agreement in principle on the company's viability program
11/03/2013 - Italy: Fiat and unions sign separate agreement renewing group agreement
08/03/2013 - Poland: further discussions on draft law on employment protection during economic slowdown and changes in the labour law
08/03/2013 - Portugal: amount of wage increases in auto and energy industries
07/03/2013 - Italy: Michelin and unions sign agreement for Cuneo site introducing work organization based on "reactivity"
06/03/2013 - France: Council of Ministers adopts labor market reform
06/03/2013 - Germany: +3% increase for steelworkers in West Germany
05/03/2013 - EU: Alcatel-Lucent's European employees call for better telecom regulation
05/03/2013 - Netherlands: Post NL and unions sign agreement for 2.1% wage increase
05/03/2013 - Germany: IG-Metall management calls for wage increase up to 5.5% over 12 months
05/03/2013 - Italy: Istat publishes four-year study on wage structure
04/03/2013 - Italy: Bricocenter-Leroy Merlin Italia signs new company agreement
04/03/2013 - Germany: IG-Metall management calls for wage increase up to 5.5% over 12 months
04/03/2013 - Italy: Bridgestone to close its car tire plant in Bari
28/02/2013 - Belgium: social dialogue reopens after government and social partners reach agreement on welfare benefits and minimum wage
28/02/2013 - Germany: rise in the number of strikes in 2012
28/02/2013 - Great Britain: employers are increasingly putting the responsibility of bearing training and employability costs on individual employees
28/02/2013 - Germany: Opel social partners announced agreement for the future, partially maintaining activity in Bochum, the plant at risk of closing
28/02/2013 - Belgium: Caterpillar plans to cut 1400 jobs at a plant near Charleroi
28/02/2013 - Netherlands' Rabobank to cut 3000 jobs
26/02/2013 - EU: no restructurings at ArcelorMittal until the European Action Plan for Steel is launched in June
26/02/2013 - Germany: RWE extends job security agreement until December 31, 2014
21/02/2013 - Germany: Siemens employees mobilize against EUR 6 billion savings program
21/02/2013 - Austria: 3.1% wage increase for 90,000 construction workers
21/02/2013 - France: Renault submits draft agreement to boost competitiveness for approval
21/02/2013 - Germany: first wage claims around 5.5-6.5% in the metal industry
20/02/2013 - Portugal: possibility of a new fund to pay for layoffs and of cutting redundancy payments again
20/02/2013 - Groupama: EWC signs joint statement on quality of life at work
20/02/2013 - EU: over 300 lawyers ask that Community institutions respect the fundamental social rights jeopardized by the labor market reforms imposed by Brussels
18/02/2013 - Groupama: publication of agreement concerning European Works Councils
17/02/2013 - Sweden: the "Sandvik model" - an unexpected guest in manufacturing negotiations
15/02/2013 - Spain : Fiteqa-CCOO union discloses report on investigations among Moroccan suppliers working for three major textile groups
13/02/2013 - Germany: extremely tense situation at Commerzbank following the announcement of a drastic job cut plan
13/02/2013 - France: a draft agreement on the social support of the restructuring plan at PSA Peugeot Citroën
12/02/2013 - Luxemburg: a bill to reform social dialogue in businesses
11/02/2013 - France: the American company Molex Inc. can be taken before the French employment tribunal as co-employer to provide grounds for the redundancies within its French subsidiary
07/02/2013 - Italy: Carrefour signs new company agreement
07/02/2013 - Germany: +2.8% wage increase for EON's 30,000 employees
07/02/2013 - Great Britain: government releases draft legislation reducing redundancy consultation periods
07/02/2013 - Spain: Iberia unions say management doesn't want to negotiate a balanced sustainability agreement and call for a 2-week strike
06/02/2013 - Spain: Bankia and Banco de Valencia sign agreements on social plans
04/02/2013 - Belgium: employers and unions agree on flexible working time arrangement
04/02/2013 - Accor: end of the conflict between the hotel chain and Unite Here
04/02/2013 - Spain: majority commerce unions sign new retail collective agreement
04/02/2013 - Great Britain: campaign against 'blacklisting' of unwanted employees in engineering and construction has taken a number of significant steps forward in recent months
04/02/2013 - Italy: unitary agreement renewing the telecom collective agreement
31/01/2013 - Austria: federal government introduces part-time training leave and other vocational training measures
31/01/2013 - Italy: Uil sets up new textile, energy and chemistry federation, the Uiltec
31/01/2013 - France: now that Goodyear Amiens-Nord is bound to close, the ball is in the government's camp
30/01/2013 - Belgium: Walloon government doesn't rule anything out to save ArcelorMittal's site in Liege
30/01/2013 - Spain: Nissan Barcelona signs competitiveness plan
29/01/2013 - Unions in PSA report "minimal progress"
29/01/2013 - EU: IndustriAll Europe calls on auto stakeholders and political authorities to work together to secure this industry's future
29/01/2013 - Sweden: bill on State participation in "reduced working time" (short-time working)
29/01/2013 - Italy: energy-oil social partners sign agreement renewing national collective agreement —
29/01/2013 - France: court suspends implementation of PSA's restructuring plan to the information/consultation of the Faurecia subsidiary's structures but limits unions' right to action as the EWC is concerned
28/01/2013 - Germany: IG BAU union calls for a 6.6% wage increase over 12 months for construction workers
28/01/2013 - Corporate practices: Seat among the first to implement the dual training system
28/01/2013 - Portugal: metalworkers' minimum wage up to EUR 500/month
25/01/2013 - Spain: call for strike on February 6 in the banking industry
25/01/2013 - Germany: trade employers' organization (HDE) terminates all sectoral collective agreements
24/01/2013 - Belgium: ArcelorMittal to cut 1,300 jobs in Liege
23/01/2013 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn released first major internal survey among employees worldwide
22/01/2013 - Belgium: ArcelorMittal Liège unions denounce management's ultimatum
22/01/2013 - Spain: competitiveness agreement at Nissan Barcelona is compromised
21/01/2013 - Telenor: global agreement with UNI Global Union on fundamental rights at work
17/01/2013 - Sweden: crisis agreement at Green Cargo, the rail logistics company
17/01/2013 - EU: European Parliament uploads report on socially responsible restructurings
17/01/2013 - Austria: to improve security, new decree sets national minimum training standards for 22 rail trades
16/01/2013 - Securitas: new international framework agreement improves the defense of union rights
14/01/2013 - Germany: media claim ThyssenKrupp offered luxury trips to board member employee representatives
13/01/2013 - France: social partners reach agreement reforming the labor market
11/01/2013 - Netherlands: following a new trend, Capgemini wants to negotiate a pay cut
11/01/2013 - UK: Honda announces workforce reduction
11/01/2013 - Accor: French Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises points to union rights violations in Canada and Benin
11/01/2013 - Spain: agreement in principle for the new collective agreement in the chemical industry
10/01/2013 - Italy: Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank signs separate agreement with unions regarding its industrial plan
10/01/2013 - EU: as expected, the Commission's 2012 Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review shows divergence between North and South
07/01/2013 - Atos: agreement on employee involvment in the future European Company (SE)
03/01/2013 - Corporate practices: Acciona Corporate University innovates and changes learning and training provision
03/01/2013 - Italy: Parliament permanently approves "Save Ilva" decree
02/01/2013 - Corporate practices: Electrolux Spain puts talent management at the heart of business success
21/12/2012 - Luxembourg: EWC Directive transposed
21/12/2012 - Germany: 3M Deutschland introduces time savings account for part-time early retirement
21/12/2012 - Austria: new working time system with GPS tracking for mailmen creates turmoil at the Austrian post
20/12/2012 - HP: social dialogue between management and EWC resumes
20/12/2012 - Belgium: work should resume after Ford Genk management and unions sign tentative agreement
20/12/2012 - Spain: Cuatrecasas International Institute for Legal Strategy on Human Resources publishes first report on the impact of the labor market reform
18/12/2012 - Spain: method agreement on negotiations for restructuring and viability program neutralizes conflict at Iberia
17/12/2012 - EU: European commerce social partners create European Skills Council
14/12/2012 - Germany: Porsche signs company agreement on flexible working time with no pay cuts
14/12/2012 - EU: social partners fail to reach an agreement on working time
14/12/2012 - Great Britain: tentative company agreement for simpler pay structure at Santander bank
12/12/2012 - SNCF: the French railway sets up an EWC
12/12/2012 - Italy: 46th Censis report shows weakened country with the "survival challenge"
11/12/2012 - Great Britain: employees to give up employment rights in return for shares in their company
11/12/2012 - Italy: Ubi Bank signs separate agreement for its industrial plan
10/12/2012 - EU: first decree by the ECJ on the discriminatory clauses contained in social plans
10/12/2012 - Germany: Opel's WC intends to fight the announced closure of the Bochum site after 2016
07/12/2012 - Belgium: investment confirmed to make ArcelorMittal Liege cold-phase durable
07/12/2012 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn signs collective agreement on demography
06/12/2012 - Spain: draft agreement at ArcelorMittal on the company's 5th framework agreement
06/12/2012 - Italy: Federmeccanica renews national collective agreement in the metal industry a separate agreement with Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil
05/12/2012 - Indesit: EWC becomes global works council
05/12/2012 - EU: new measures to stop the "unacceptable" levels of youth unemployment
04/12/2012 - EU: presentation of the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs' own-initiative report on socially responsible restructuring and the anticipation of change
04/12/2012 - British Airways to cut 400 cabin crew jobs
04/12/2012 - Iberia crews set holiday strikes over job cuts
04/12/2012 - Spain: Iberia unions call for 6-day strike against social plan providing for 4,500 job cuts
04/12/2012 - Italy: Ilva or the problems that can arise between environmental and employment requirements
04/12/2012 - Volkswagen: new "Temporary work Charter" will apply to all agency workers across the globe
29/11/2012 - Spain: two union leaders explain their organization's bargaining strategy in the auto industry
29/11/2012 - ZF Friedrichshafen: IG-Metall union and car part maker fight over the implementation of the company’s international framework agreement
29/11/2012 - Great Britain: unions are stepping up their campaigns to improve the wages and conditions of their members in contract cleaning by taking industrial action
28/11/2012 - Rheinmetall: new European framework agreement on health management
28/11/2012 - Belgium: overview of the failed negotiations for the restructurings of ArcelorMittal Liege
27/11/2012 - EU: Parliament's Employment Committee to prepare an own-initiative report on collective bargaining and social dialogue at transnational level
27/11/2012 - Spain: how Microsoft Spain and Wolters Kluwer Spain are implementing telework models
23/11/2012 - ThyssenKrupp Elevator: new European agreement signed with IndustriAll Europe introduces a system of idea management to improve health and safety
23/11/2012 - SAS: the airline's unions forced to accept major concessions
23/11/2012 - Deutsche Post-DHL: unions lodge an appeal for violation of the OECD's guidelines on multinational enterprises
23/11/2012 - Great Britain: Virgin Media successfully derecognises CWU and BECTU
22/11/2012 - Italy: new "Productivity Pact" formally adopted, but not by the CGIL
21/11/2012 - EU: Parliament Employment Committee adopts report urging the Commission to adopt an initiative on socially responsible restructurings
21/11/2012 - Germany: Verdi starts another war against T-Mobile USA (Deutsche Telekom), accused of "psychological terror" against employees trying to join a union
21/11/2012 - Belgium: pay freeze in 2013 and 2014 without questioning the indexation on inflation
20/11/2012 - EU: a draft directive on non-financial reporting could be adopted soon
19/11/2012 - Corporate practices: BMW launches TaLENT, a more flexible training scheme focusing on the talents identified among apprentices
14/11/2012 - HP: European trade union coordination to help employee representatives stay in touch after EWC is terminated
14/11/2012 - Germany: Lufthansa's aircrew get wage increase and employment guarantee in return for flexible working hours
13/11/2012 - Italy: two framework agreements improve employment protection in the electric power industry
12/11/2012 - Spain: Renault unions and management sign flexibility agreement hoping to create 1,300 jobs
09/11/2012 - industriAll: Full solidarity with Ford Europe and PSA workers
09/11/2012 - IndustriAll Europe and Uni Global establish HP European Alliance
09/11/2012 - Austria: Magna, the car part manufacturer, is preparing to outsource part of its operations to be covered by "more advantageous" collective agreements
08/11/2012 - Job cuts in Europe
07/11/2012 - Spain: Suzuki announces closure of Gijón plant
07/11/2012 - ING announces it will cut 2.350 jobs in Europe
07/11/2012 - Germany: new pay deal in West German textile and clothing
07/11/2012 - Total: new amendment to the EWC agreement
06/11/2012 - Germany: after the metal, chemistry and rail industries, the textile and wood industries are giving agency workers "sectoral bonuses"
31/10/2012 - Austria: despite every indication, collective negotiations in the metal industry should keep growing apart
31/10/2012 - Switzerland: a subsidiary of Bilfinger Berger, Germany's second largest construction firm, banned from operating in Switzerland for two years because of wage dumping
30/10/2012 - Germany: MAN, the heavy truck manufacturer, puts 15,000 staff on "forced vacation" for a week
30/10/2012 - Italy: separate agreement with employers to renew the national collective agreement in the food industry
26/10/2012 - Ford to cut 1,400 car jobs in Southampton and Dagenham
25/10/2012 - UK: Ford expected to announce Southampton Transit plant closure
25/10/2012 - Transnational bargaining: 1st IndustriALL thematic conference focuses on standardizing procedures for bargaining and implementing international framework agreements
25/10/2012 - EU: half-mast European social model
24/10/2012 - Belgium: the Ford car plant in the Limburg town of Genk is to close in 2014
24/10/2012 - EU: 2013, a blank year for social Europe
24/10/2012 - Netherlands: negotiations are stuck in the rubber plastic industry
24/10/2012 - Spain: BBVA signs agreement on staffing cuts demanded by Brussels after the banking group took over the Unnim Banc savings banks group
23/10/2012 - Italy: conflict in telecom industry over the renewal of the sector's national collective agreement
23/10/2012 - Germany: Daimler management and Sindelfingen works council end conflict of unprecedented intensity
22/10/2012 - Great Britain: coming mandatory transparency on the place women have in large businesses
22/10/2012 - Spain: unions call for a general strike on November 14
22/10/2012 - Austria: up to 3.4 percent wage increase in the metal industry
19/10/2012 - EU: European Trade Union Confederation calls for day of action and solidarity on November 14
19/10/2012 - Eurosport: global agreement on fundamental labor rights
19/10/2012 - Italy: Wind, the telephone company, signs an agreement with unions on a new strategic plan to improve competitiveness and maintain employment
18/10/2012 - Great Britain: low impact of the independence of Scotland on industrial relations and employment law
18/10/2012 - Poland: government reveals 2013 social program
17/10/2012 - Companies: study on the failure to apply international framework agreements and possible solutions from the Indian factories (Pune) of Volkswagen, Daimler and Bosch
17/10/2012 - Germany: collective bargaining starts in the textile and clothing industry in western Germany
16/10/2012 - Italy: Sandvik's agreement in Rovereto combines flexibility and innovative family policy
16/10/2012 - International: Adidas wants to create assistance fund for textile workers in Asia with sports equipment manufacturers
15/10/2012 - EU: how is employee participation doing at European level?
15/10/2012 - Corporate practices: how Indra, the IT specialist is promoting female leadership at the highest level in the countries where it is present
12/10/2012 - Italy: Eni signs an agreement with the social partners and the Basilicate region for the "site convention" of the peninsula's key oil extraction center
10/10/2012 - Austria: 190,000 heating engineers, assembly operators and mechatronics engineers get an average 3.2 percent increase
09/10/2012 - Great Britain: Ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs invites employees to give up their rights in exchange for free shares
08/10/2012 - Spain: unions reject new prerogatives of the National Consultation Committee on Collective Agreements
08/10/2012 - Austria: metal employers offer a 2.8 percent wage increase along with a working time increase
05/10/2012 - Spain: Inditex enforces voluntary leave transfer program in its last Spanish plants
05/10/2012 - Austria: trade employers want "individual" labor at the center of collective bargaining
04/10/2012 - Portugal: CGTP calls for general strike
03/10/2012 - EU: extractive industry social partners sign joint statement on health and safety at work
02/10/2012 - Germany: new head of metal employers' organization wants to commit to an even more flexible labor market
01/10/2012 - Netherlands: FNV calls for 2.5 percent wage increase
28/09/2012 - Germany: BMW signs company agreement to recruit 3,000 agency workers in return for flexible working time
28/09/2012 - France: Goodyear Amiens-Nord management withdraws voluntary leave transfer program
26/09/2012 - OHL: Spanish construction firm signs international framework agreement on workers' rights and union freedoms
25/09/2012 - Italy: chemical/pharmaceutical social partners renew national collective agreement
24/09/2012 - Sweden: Teneneco to shutter emissions control plant in Vittaryd
24/09/2012 - France: government invites businesses to boost CSR dynamic
21/09/2012 - Siemens: after Siemens US violated the international CSR agreement in North East, Maryland, the social partners involved are talking about the new path to take
21/09/2012 - Groupama to sell its UK Non-Life insurance business to Ageas UK
19/09/2012 - Italy: Unicredit and unions sign agreement on industrial program and bonus
19/09/2012 - EU: finance unions hope that the new European banking supervisory authority will help change practices in the sector
18/09/2012 - Sweden: Unionen and Handels union step in to defend IKEA staff in Turkey and sign an international framework agreement
14/09/2012 - Austria: metalworkers' unions accept partial questioning of 40 years of unitary collective bargaining
13/09/2012 - Germany: a majority of Länder is about to support a bill introducing universal minimum wage
13/09/2012 - Corporate practices: new agreement on "demography and the creation of a competitive and sustainable personnel structures" for Unilever DACH staff in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
12/09/2012 - EU: report on the strategies of energy companies and their social and environmental impact
11/09/2012 - EU: Commission launches consultation on the introduction of an optional framework for transnational company negotiations
10/09/2012 - France: Saint-Gobain signs new agreement on diversity
10/09/2012 - Spain: agreement to outsource supplementary pension for Banco Santander staff hired before 1980
10/09/2012 - Italy: with national union division in the background, IndustriAll Europe mobilizes against Fiat Iveco's restructuring
07/09/2012 - Great Britain: "zero hour" contracts growing and spreading in various industries
06/09/2012 - Italy: operations at Ilva Tarente will resume if it gets up to date
05/09/2012 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn to introduce new part-time apprenticeship for single parents
04/09/2012 - EU: coming proposal to introduce quotas for women on boards
02/09/2012 - Safran: European negotiations to integrate young people in the company
30/08/2012 - Germany: Verdi and police unions fight in the airport safety sector
30/08/2012 - Italy: GDF Suez Energia Italia Spa and unions sign new IR protocol
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29/08/2012 - Carlsberg: LO union and the company sign cooperation agreement to improve the conditions of beer developers in Cambodia
28/08/2012 - Germany: Ufo flight attendants union launches strike at Lufthansa
27/08/2012 - France: PSA Sevelnord agreement revives debate on competitiveness agreements
27/08/2012 - Corporate practices: at Daimler, work-life balance isn't an all-female issue anymore
24/08/2012 - Germany: 9,300 Opel staff on short-time working
23/08/2012 - Corporate practices: in Kaluga, Russia, Volkswagen is training its own apprentices
23/08/2012 - Italy: Manpower's new group agreement improves work-life balance
22/08/2012 - BNP Paribas: interview of Didier Legrand, head of Social Affairs within BNP Paribas Human Resources, about the European agreement on employment management
20/08/2012 - Valeo: new European agreement on CSR
20/08/2012 - Siemens: new international framework agreement
20/08/2012 - Hewlett Packard: employee representatives vote the termination of the anticipation agreement establishing the EWC
26/07/2012 - Alcatel-Lucent announces global headcount reduction of around 5,000 people
20/07/2012 - Italy: Automobili Lamborghini SpA and Fiom-CGIL sign company agreement improving employee participation
19/07/2012 - Italy: Alenia Aermacchi (Finmeccanica) and unions sign agreement increase flexibility and result bonus
17/07/2012 - G4S : EWC agreement revised
13/07/2012 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn and Federal Employment Agency sign national recruitment agreement
13/07/2012 - Italy: Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) and rail CCN renewed
12/07/2012 - EU: ArcelorMittal unions' mobilization led the European Commission to agree to the creation of a joint working committee in the steel industry
11/07/2012 - Great Britain: Frances O'Grady, expert in union campaigning, will become the new general secretary of the Trades Union Congress in January 2013
10/07/2012 - Italy: Generali signs groundbreaking agreement on employment protection
10/07/2012 - Netherlands: government key in prompting BMW to takeover the Nedcar auto plant
10/07/2012 - BNP Paribas: new European agreement on employment management
05/07/2012 - Spain: the building-materials company Holcim signs Equal Opportunity Plan with unions
04/07/2012 - France: CSR criteria in the new 2012-2014 profit-sharing agreement at La Poste
04/07/2012 - Deutsche Post DHL: new EWC agreement details information and consultation procedures
04/07/2012 - Italy: Thales Alenia Space Italia renews company agreement
02/07/2012 - Corporate practices: ThyssenKrupp steel cuts working time to hire 1,000 apprentices and have younger manpower
28/06/2012 - Germany: Siemens gives up to EUR 500 a month to come back to work after childbirth
27/06/2012 - Germany: Verdi union gets better working and pay conditions for the employees of Deutsche Bank's subsidiaries
26/06/2012 - EU: interview of Alejandro Cercas, Member of the European Parliament and author of the legislative initiative report on restructurings
25/06/2012 - Netherlands: coming negotiations on the "quality" of employees relations at Ikea
25/06/2012 - Italy: Rome Court sentences Fiat to reinstate 145 Fiom-CGIL members in Pomigliano plant
21/06/2012 - International: new global manufacturing union federation
20/06/2012 - Deutsche Bahn: new EWC agreement with special system to add Britain's Arriva
18/06/2012 - Great Britain: mandatory pay audits for employers guilty of discrimination
15/06/2012 - Italy: Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil sign joint platform for the renewal of the metal collective agreement
15/06/2012 - Generali: EWC agreement renewed
15/06/2012 - Germany: Opel employees temporarily give up wage increase in return for employment guarantee until 2016
14/06/2012 - Italy: unions in logistics, merchandise transport and shipping approve unitary platform renewing their national collective agreement
13/06/2012 - Fiat/Chrysler: new meeting of the international union network
12/06/2012 - France: Areva signs agreement on quality of life at work
12/06/2012 - Italy: unitary platforms approved for the renewal of collective agreements in chemistry-pharmacy, rubber-plastic, energy-oil, and gas-electricty
07/06/2012 - GDF SUEZ: new European agreement on professional equality between women and men
07/06/2012 - EU: European Trade Union Confederation tries social offensive
07/06/2012 - Germany: 5.4 percent increase over 26 months in the banking sector
06/06/2012 - Italy: new company agreement at Volkswagen Group Italia implements international agreement on employee participation
05/06/2012 - Sweden: bargaining over in telecom industry
04/06/2012 - Germany: court to rule on corporate managements' right to unilaterally change the law applicable to their EWC in Visteon case
31/05/2012 - The refinery business is under threat – immediate reaction needed
29/05/2012 - Germany: 'flexible quotas' to increase the number of women on boards are about to become reality
28/05/2012 - Ferrovial: international framework agreement signed with the Building and Wood Workers' International (BWI)
25/05/2012 - Germany: chemistry collective negotiations lead to a 4.5 percent wage increase and a "demographic corridor"
23/05/2012 - Germany: IG-Metall signs new agreement introducing "recruitment bonuses" for temporary workers in the metal industry
23/05/2012 - GM Europe: increasingly uncertain future for the Bochum site in Germany after the new Astra was given to Ellesmere Port (UK) and Gliwice (Poland) in return for concessions on labor organization
22/05/2012 - Great Britain: employees at General Motors Ellesmere Port sign concessions agreement to keep their job
21/05/2012 - Germany: metalworkers get a 4.3 percent wage increase and more advantageous rules for apprentices and temporary workers
21/05/2012 - EU: IndustriALL European Trade Union created
16/05/2012 - Greece: wage elements neutralized in a great deal of sectoral collective agreements
16/05/2012 - EU: European metal, chemical and textile employers in favor of framework conditions that ease prompt restructurings and transitions
16/05/2012 - Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization's CSR and SRI actions
15/05/2012 - Germany: Verdi is about to launch warning strikes in the banking industry
15/05/2012 - Italy: first union dedicated to internet professionals within the Uiltucs union federation
14/05/2012 - Netherlands: employers worried about wage increases
14/05/2012 - Austria: 4.35 percent wage increase in chemistry
11/05/2012 - Deutsche Post DHL: UNI and ITF union federation intensify global campaign against the violation of workers' rights by DHL
11/05/2012 - Corporate practices: to secure the skills needed in the future, Volvo AB Group sets up its own training program for young jobseekers
10/05/2012 - Inditex: new agreement on the involvement of unions to monitor the respect of workers' conditions at supplier firms
10/05/2012 - Netherlands: 5 percent wage increase for Transavia's ground staff
09/05/2012 - Germany: Verdi union gets a 6.5 percent wage increase for Telekom Deutschland's 50,000 employees
07/05/2012 - CSM looks to sell struggling bakery supplies arm
04/05/2012 - Schiesser AG bought by Delta-Galil
04/05/2012 - Ford: new international framework agreement
04/05/2012 - Germany: 6.5 percent increase for the 16,500 employees of Deutsche Telekom's headquarters
03/05/2012 - Portugal: UGT confederation calls for enforcement of the growth and employment chapter of the social dialogue agreement of January 2012
03/05/2012 - Spain: social partners at PSA Vigo plant sign agreement supervising work on Saturday
02/05/2012 - Colombia: Carrefour and the brand new UTCC union sign their first wage agreement
02/05/2012 - Germany: IG-Metall starts warning strikes
29/04/2012 - Netherlands: FNV and Allies sues Albert Heijn supermarkets to reduce "flexible" staffing
26/04/2012 - Germany: eurozone crisis causes Ford to appeal to short-time working
25/04/2012 - Germany: Sany, the Chinese group, grants employees at Putzmeister, German manufacturer of concrete pumps, job security until 2020
20/04/2012 - EU: airlines can no longer choose the social security legislation applicable to their flight crew
20/04/2012 - EU: postal European social partners want stronger social dialogue to better accompany liberalization in the sector
20/04/2012 - PSA/GM Alliance: the two carmakers' union representatives form an 'Alliance' to monitor their managements' Alliance
20/04/2012 - Finland: Nokia Siemens unions fight two battles to manage restructurings
19/04/2012 - Argentina: unions support the nationalization of the YPF oil company
17/04/2012 - Enel: EWC agreement renewed
16/04/2012 - EU: European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and BusinessEurope respond to Green Paper on Restructurings
13/04/2012 - Great Britain: Unite tries new campaign style at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging and Tulip
11/04/2012 - Italy: new Peroni agreement characterized by flexibility and telework
06/04/2012 - Slovenia: agreement on guidelines for the negotiation of the Social Contract 2012-2016
05/04/2012 - Belgium: unions are campaigning for the May 7 ballot
05/04/2012 - Total: amendment to the European agreement on assistance in creation, purchase or development of SMEs
03/04/2012 - Air France/KLM: new framework agreement supervising the restructuring of outstations in European airports
02/04/2012 - Germany: unions' globalization strategy helped by Bob King, leader of the American auto workers' union, joining Opel's board
02/04/2012 - International: overview of global union alliances
30/03/2012 - Germany: 10,000 employees fired by Schlecker causes political and ideological turmoil beyond the trade industry
29/03/2012 - Denmark: government presents 2012-2015 plan promoting CSR
28/03/2012 - Germany: the GdF airline security union will not pay damages to the airlines
27/03/2012 - France/Switzerland: method agreement to save jobs at the Basel-Mulhouse airport businesses threatened to leave after a court ruling imposing French mandatory provisions for contracts under the Swiss labor law
27/03/2012 - Italy: Bologna court sentenced Fiat for anti-union behavior
27/03/2012 - Italy: details of the draft labor market reform adopted by the Council of Ministers
27/03/2012 - Great Britain: age discrimination can be justified on cost grounds
27/03/2012 - Opel: the carmaker's European employee representatives united against possible future site closures
23/03/2012 - EU: Advocate General Mengozzi invites the ECJ to maintain jurisprudence on the time at which the obligation to consult arises in case of collective redundancies
22/03/2012 - EU: interview of Romuald Jagodzinski, ETUI researcher and coordinator of the 2012 Benchmarking Working Europe edition, the report of the European Trade Union Institute on the Europe 2020 strategy
20/03/2012 - Germany: Verdi (services) and EVG (rail) unions sign cooperation agreement ending their rivalry in the transportation industry
19/03/2012 - PSA/GM Alliance: the EWCs and unions of the two carmakers coordinate to assess the consequences of their alliance on employment
15/03/2012 - Italy: temporary unions staunchly opposed to agreements allowing agencies to derogate from equal treatment
12/03/2012 - Spain: unions call for a general strike against the labor law reform on March 29
12/03/2012 - Italy: insurance sector renews national collective agreement
09/03/2012 - EU: new budget heading on employee involvement in undertakings
09/03/2012 - Spain: Vodafone's new collective agreement provides for short-time working, optional working time cuts and pay cuts to avoid layoffs
08/03/2012 - Italy: new agreement at TNT Post introduces bank of hours to improve parental leave
08/03/2012 - Germany: new controversy over the introduction of women on management boards
08/03/2012 - UNI IKEA Global Union Alliance to promote good practices
07/03/2012 - Mittal: Digging a grave for one of the flagships of the European steel sector?
07/03/2012 - MAN SE: new international framework agreement on fundamental rights at work
06/03/2012 - EU: European Commission launches consultation on the adoption of quotas for women on boards
06/03/2012 - Lafarge: in Indonesia, management and BWI international union federation extend the framework agreement to subcontractors
06/03/2012 - BWI signs new IFA with Spanish International Construction company FCC
05/03/2012 - EU: European social partners present their work program 2012-2014
05/03/2012 - Denmark: construction, packaging and textile industries renew collective agreements
02/03/2012 - Germany: record bonuses continue in the auto industry
02/03/2012 - Romania: employment market situation is getting worse
02/03/2012 - Further mobilisation to safeguard ArcelorMittal sites
01/03/2012 - Belgian unions and IG Metall condemn private militia action against workers at Meister Sprimont
29/02/2012 - Italy: Council of Ministers approves the decree transposing the European directive on temporary work
28/02/2012 - EU: coordinated demonstrations in the EU 27 to reject the European austerity policy
28/02/2012 - FCC Construcción: the Spanish group commits to promote employees' rights on all its sites worldwide
27/02/2012 - TDF (Télédiffusion de France) has initiated nogitiations for the establishment of an EWC
27/02/2012 - Georgia Pacific: Employees use new legislation to hold their employer to account
27/02/2012 - Spain: draft agreement on the new collective agreement in the banking industry
23/02/2012 - Romania: Jucu comes back to life after Nokia left
23/02/2012 - Successful end to Electrolux strike in Romania
21/02/2012 - Romania: end of the Electrolux strike
21/02/2012 - Germany: IG-Metall accuses BMW of excessively using temporary work
21/02/2012 - Germany: recruitment strategies increasingly rely on employee recommendations
21/02/2012 - Italy: employees at Sisme, the manufacturer of motors for household appliances, commit to co-finance the investment to revive the Italian establishment
20/02/2012 - Henkel: the German group banks on a work culture focused on performance, not the time spent in the office
20/02/2012 - EU: UNI Europa and Postal Euromed sign a cooperation agreement
15/02/2012 - Germany: demographic ageing at the heart of the coming collective negotiations in the chemical industry
15/02/2012 - Germany: 2.7 percent wage increase for Vattenfall's 15,000 employees
15/02/2012 - Denmark: agreement renewing the banking collective agreement
14/02/2012 - Spain: new savings bank collective agreement sets framework for the expected restructurings in the sector
14/02/2012 - Italy: historical verdict at Eternit's super asbestos trial
13/02/2012 - Spain: government adopts wide labor market reform
13/02/2012 - Denmark: manufacturing social partners sign agreement renewing the collective agreement
10/02/2012 - Romania: new government sets employment as its priority
10/02/2012 - EU: first meeting of UNI-Europa's EWC coordinator network
10/02/2012 - Italy: Hewlett Packard Italiana signs new company agreement, 25 years after the last one
10/02/2012 - Romania: Electrolux employees on strike for two weeks
10/02/2012 - Italy: Maschio Gaspardo Group signs agreement safeguarding jobs for the next three years
09/02/2012 - Italy: Banco Popolare introduces sabbatical to combine cost cutting and work-life balance requirements
08/02/2012 - Spain: the social partners adjust the public system for out-of-court dispute settlement to new collective bargaining stakes
07/02/2012 - Italy: the transformation of labor at Pirelli at the center of a play
07/02/2012 - Germany: researchers warn against the limitations of work-study training
07/02/2012 - EU: European social dialogue launched in the food and drink industry
03/02/2012 - Italy: launch of the Regional Observatory on Enel's working group in Latium
02/02/2012 - EU: first joint executive committee for the EMF, EMCEF and ETUF:TCL to prepare their coming merger
01/02/2012 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn managers will have to take better account of employee and customer satisfaction
31/01/2012 - Italy: wave of social movements against the government's measures
31/01/2012 - Germany: Lufthansa and Verdi sign a variable geometry collective agreement with a 3.5 percent wage increase
27/01/2012 - Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers
27/01/2012 - Spain: revisiting the 2nd agreement on employment and collective bargaining 2012, 2013 and 2014
27/01/2012 - Alstom: European agreement on social commitments during the transition period of the joint venture between Alstom and Shanghai Electric
26/01/2012 - Germany: agreement on employment reduction without layoffs at EON
26/01/2012 - Germany: lobbied by its members, the IG-Metall is calling for a 6.5-7 percent wage increase
25/01/2012 - Greece: company agreements and pay cuts are expanding
25/01/2012 - Spain: unions and employers sign a series of agreements preparing for the labor market reform
24/01/2012 - Petrobras: global framework agreement signed with ICEM uploaded
23/01/2012 - Italy: banking social partners renew national collective agreement
23/01/2012 - Belgium: joint union front calls general strike on January 30
20/01/2012 - Poland: union organizations suspend participation in the Tripartite Committee
19/01/2012 - Compass: agreement with the IUF international union federation on union freedom at Eurest Algeria
19/01/2012 - Italy: food-processing unions present unitary platform for the renewal of the national collective agreement
18/01/2012 - Portugal: new social agreement bans controversial working time increase while adding flexibility
18/01/2012 - Germany: Verdi union calls for a 6 percent wage increase and the improvement of working conditions in banks
17/01/2012 - Inditex: the international framework agreement the group signed was used to defend union freedom at a Turkish supplier
16/01/2012 - Germany: transport sector worries about the growing shortage of drivers and is starting to increase wages
12/01/2012 - Italy: successful Facebook campaign against the relocation of Omsa (Golden Lady Group) to Serbia
12/01/2012 - Germany: 4 percent wage increase at the Deutsche Post
11/01/2012 - Germany: focus on the election of union representatives in metal firms
11/01/2012 - Denmark: CSC computing company signs two collective agreements substantially reviewing working conditions
10/01/2012 - EU: the Danish Presidency's social program
09/01/2012 - Italy: the Fiom is organizing to reconquer union rights at Fiat
06/01/2012 - EU: the European Commission's expected social initiatives for 2012
03/01/2012 - Corporate practices: secrets behind Scania's 'perfect' age pyramid
02/01/2012 - Spain: Seat signs draft agreement linking pay to productivity
02/01/2012 - Italy: separate collective agreement in the automotive sector based on Fiat's "Pomigliano model"
02/01/2012 - Germany: Volkswagen bans professional emails outside of working hours
20/12/2011 - Randstad: adjusting the anticipation agreement establishing a EWC to the recast directive
19/12/2011 - EU: European Commission uploads database on transnational company agreements
16/12/2011 - Corporate practices: Thales helps its employees change trades with the "Passerelles" approach
16/12/2011 - Groupama: amendment adjusting the EWC agreement to the new European Directive
01/12/2011 - Italy: negotiations between Fiat and unions for the group's new collective agreement start with an incident with the Fiom-CGIL union
29/11/2011 - AXA: interview of Guillaume Floquet and Daniel Vaulot, respectively Deputy Head of AXA Group Human Resources and EWC secretary, about the European agreement on anticipation
29/11/2011 - Netherlands: draft reform to let businesses derogate from collective agreements when they have problems
28/11/2011 - Romania: employers and unions sign social agreement to engage in social dialogue irrespective of the public powers
25/11/2011 - Finland: after several months of tough negotiations, sectoral agreements are reached on the basis of the framework agreement the social partners signed in October at national level
25/11/2011 - Italy: Luxottica's company agreement tests "family job sharing"
25/11/2011 - Portugal: unions demand the resumption of dialogue with the government after successful general strike
23/11/2011 - Italy: Fiat terminates all collective agreements to be free to negotiate a single agreement for the group
23/11/2011 - Companies: six telecom multinationals launch human rights initiative
22/11/2011 - Italy: measures affecting the labor world in the Monti administration's program
22/11/2011 - Germany: new steel collective agreement provides for a 3.8% increase and the recruitment of apprentices
21/11/2011 - Great Britain: unions press ahead with the national strike on 30 November
21/11/2011 - EU: home stretch for the creation of the first European Sector Skills Councils
21/11/2011 - Netherlands: Philips wants to spread efficiency premiums
21/11/2011 - Corporate practices: how the Rudus construction materials manufacturer managed to significantly cut the number of industrial accidents on its production sites
17/11/2011 - Germany: Alcatel-Lucent Network Services employees sign company framework agreement with the support of the IG-Metall
16/11/2011 - EU: European social partners to open talks with a view to reviewing the working time directive
16/11/2011 - Germany: construction employers and unions want to improve workers' safety on the sites
15/11/2011 - International: pharmaceutical unions improve their network
11/11/2011 - Estonia: two surveys to help understand the current state of labor relations in the country
10/11/2011 - Italy: Telecom Italia launches experimental technical retraining program for women
09/11/2011 - Areva: EWC calls for stoppages in France, Belgium and Germany
08/11/2011 - Romania: end of negotiations on the closing of the Nokia plant
07/11/2011 - Skanska: the Swedish construction firm organized a Safety Week on all its sites in the world on October 17-23
04/11/2011 - Carrefour: amendment to the anticipation agreement establishing the EWC
03/11/2011 - Hungary : government adopts new Labour Code reform
31/10/2011 - Corporate practices: how the SICK AG sensor producer managed to reduce stress and noise in its offices
31/10/2011 - Italy: banking social partners sign agreement supervising collective bargaining
28/10/2011 - Italy: the city of Milan and unions sign an agreement on continuous dialogue
27/10/2011 - Italy: towards the application of the "Pomigliano model" in all Fiat undertakings in Italy
26/10/2011 - EU: CSR is back on the social agenda
25/10/2011 - ThyssenKrupp: IG-Metall union wants to help the American USW union settle in the German steel plant in Alabama
25/10/2011 - Italy: Fiom-CGIL metalworkers' federation gives positive report of the national Fiat/Fincantieri strike
24/10/2011 - Greece: the law giving preference to company-level wage negotiations passed
24/10/2011 - France: the ordinance transposing the EWC (recast) Directive was published
21/10/2011 - Germany: the crisis of bonuses Opel gave its works council revives the debate on the remuneration of employee representatives
20/10/2011 - Austria: launch of collective negotiations for 520,000 trade employees
20/10/2011 - Portugal: unions call for a general strike on November 24th against 2012 austerity measures
20/10/2011 - GDF Suez: EWC renders negative opinion on the partnership with the CIC Chinese Sovereign wealth fund because of doubts on the CSR compatibility of the fund's investments
20/10/2011 - Germany: Airbus signs "Agreement for the Future" with job security until 2020
20/10/2011 - Spain: union and employers' organizations strike deal to unfreeze sectoral collective bargaining
19/10/2011 - AXA: interview of Guillaume Floquet and Daniel Vaulot, respectively Deputy Head of AXA Group Human Resources and EWC secretary, about the European agreement on anticipation
19/10/2011 - Deutsche Bahn: German railway launches program at group level to increase the proportion of female employees
18/10/2011 - EU: European employers in favor of a voluntary code of conduct for ethics in business
17/10/2011 - European Panel: Workers’ participation – Building a more democratic and social Europe
17/10/2011 - ArcelorMittal: Belgian unions want a European answer to the closing down of the Liège blast furnaces
14/10/2011 - Denmark: first report on HR practices in multinationals in Denmark
13/10/2011 - Areva: launch of FACES, the European project aimed to improve social dialogue for better competence management
12/10/2011 - Luxembourg: social partners are back at the bargaining table
11/10/2011 - Sweden: technology social partners lay foundation for coming sectoral negotiations
11/10/2011 - Germany: big energy producers are getting ready to cut staff
10/10/2011 - EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks "EWCs should be a platform for unions' work"
07/10/2011 - Italy: Manageritalia and Confcommercio renew national collective agreement for service managers
07/10/2011 - Germany: Deutsche Post extends Job Security Pact until 2015 but decreases entry level pay
06/10/2011 - Danone: global agreement on health, safety, working conditions and stress
06/10/2011 - EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks "EWCs should be a platform for unions' work"
06/10/2011 - Austria: unprecedented clash in metal collective bargaining
05/10/2011 - Greece: government to make company negotiations simpler
04/10/2011 - Spain: draft agreement on the 16th collective agreement in the chemical industry signed in spite of union division
03/10/2011 - Axa: the French insurance group is the first in the industry to sign a European agreement on the anticipation of changes
03/10/2011 - Italy: Fiat to leave Confindustria on January 1, 2012
30/09/2011 - ArcelorMittal: European agreement on the anticipation of change and social dialogue put to the test
29/09/2011 - Germany: after negotiations failed, IG-Metall union calls Airbus' 16,000 employees for strike action
29/09/2011 - Czech Republic: commentary of the Labour Code amendment
29/09/2011 - Italy: union break at the Italian post
29/09/2011 - Germany: Daimler introduces "pay curve" as part of its corporate social responsibility strategy
28/09/2011 - Romania: unions and employers ask the government to revive social dialogue
27/09/2011 - Sodexo: Interview of Hugh Owens, director of reward, pensions and employee relations at Sodexo UK
26/09/2011 - Poland: social partners determine working program for the coming months
26/09/2011 - Italy: Fiom-CGIL announces claim platform for the renewal of the metal collective agreement
22/09/2011 - Italy: CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions sign agreement reached with Confindustria on representativeness and company agreements
22/09/2011 - Spain: Manpower allowed to work as a placement agency for jobseekers
21/09/2011 - EU: home stretch for the creation of European and international manufacturing federations
21/09/2011 - Great Britain: Fujitsu staff repeatedly on strike
21/09/2011 - Germany: reelected as Verdi's leader, Frank Bsirske demands the introduction of statutory minimum wage of EUR 8.5 an hour
20/09/2011 - Sodexo: after the deal reached in the US, SEIU union drops opinion campaign against the French catering company
20/09/2011 - Umicore: international framework agreement renewed
19/09/2011 - EU: gas sectoral social dialogue committee wants to contribute to the Europe Energy Policy
19/09/2011 - Germany: 2012 collective bargaining schedule
16/09/2011 - Germany: IG-Metall union starts next Congress with more and younger members
16/09/2011 - Spain: Parliament ratifies last Labor Market Reform Act
15/09/2011 - Great Britain: key unions ballot for strike on November 30th
15/09/2011 - Germany: DBG reveals that, in spite of the lack in skilled manpower, the quality of cooperative education has not improved
15/09/2011 - Italy: measures of the budget austerity plan affecting the social sphere
14/09/2011 - Spain: unions are worried about the new constraints announced by the carmakers
14/09/2011 - Portugal: unions and employers reject the government's plan to create a compensation fund to pay for layoffs
13/09/2011 - International: UNI launches global union alliance for Manpower staff
12/09/2011 - EU: report on European social files
09/09/2011 - Spain: the pay gap between men and women with positions of responsibility is nine points higher than the average
08/09/2011 - Italy: the CGIL's general strike opens the "hot fall"
08/09/2011 - Netherlands: one single federation for heavy and light metal industry
07/09/2011 - Sweden: Scania signs new flexibility agreement for Swedish production sites
07/09/2011 - EU: European chemistry social partners sign declaration on a sustainable industrial policy in their sector
07/09/2011 - Finland: serial layoffs and wheezing social dialogue on the menu for the new social season
06/09/2011 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn railways announce 70,000 new jobs over 10 years
06/09/2011 - Austria: high inflation rate at the heart of collective bargaining in the metal industry
05/09/2011 - Germany: Bosch Solar Energy signs first company agreement in solar power
02/09/2011 - Brazil: authorities investigate the use of slavery in Zara's workshops
01/09/2011 - Poland: report on working and employment conditions in businesses
01/09/2011 - Great Britain: tricky merger between RMT and TSSA transport and rail unions
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31/08/2011 - Italy: government's new austerity program tackles labor law
29/08/2011 - Thales: at its last European convention, the high-tech group evaluates the application of its IDEA and TALK European agreements
01/08/2011 - HSBC plans to cut 30000 jobs
28/07/2011 - United States: Volkswagen employee representatives and the United Auto Workers union unite to facilitate organizing in the Chattanooga plant
28/07/2011 - Greece: new turn of the screw affects pensions and hard work
22/07/2011 - Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the collective agreement of Indesit Spa Group
21/07/2011 - Ireland: transposition of the EWC directive
20/07/2011 - Italy: Parliament permanently approved the government's new austerity program
20/07/2011 - France: "the judge will have to sort out the uncertainties of the recast EWC directive and national transpositions," Rachid Brihi, partner at the Grumbach law firm
19/07/2011 - Italy: Court of Turin confirms the validity of the separate agreements of Pomigliano d'Arco but recognizes Fiat's antiunion behavior towards the Fiom
18/07/2011 - Poland: social partners failed to agree on minimum wage for 2012
15/07/2011 - France: overview of the new provisions on apprenticeship, monitoring internships and labor leasing
13/07/2011 - Great Britain: growing use of Section 188 in the public and voluntary sectors to legally dismiss staff in order to rehire them on poorer pay and conditions
12/07/2011 - Belgium: Constitutional Court gives the lawmaker until 2013 to harmonize the blue-collar and white-collar statuses
11/07/2011 - Great Britain: government maintains employees' right to request time off to train but will review the policy in 2015
11/07/2011 - Germany: growth is starting to show in wage increases negotiated in 2011
08/07/2011 - Spain: unions and Telefónica management agree on 6,500 job cuts over 3 years
08/07/2011 - Italy: government reveals 2011 austerity policy
07/07/2011 - Italy: leather social partners sign unitary agreement renewing the sectoral national collective agreement
06/07/2011 - Great Britain: Sodexo signs union recognition agreement with the three biggest unions in Britain
06/07/2011 - Italy: Assolombarda employers' organization and Milan unions sign agreement on training during a crisis
05/07/2011 - Portugal: extraordinary tax and amending the Labor Contract on the menu for the new government
05/07/2011 - Belgium: draft banking collective agreement 2011-2012
01/07/2011 - Fiat-Chrysler: creation of a global union network
29/06/2011 - Great Britain: more deaths at work
29/06/2011 - Germany: the 170,000 employees in the printing industry get the extension of the framework collective agreement
28/06/2011 - Spain: regional collective agreements will take precedence over national collective agreements
24/06/2011 - Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the national collective agreement in craft metal businesses
23/06/2011 - EU: European Commission publishes table on the state of implementation of Directive 2009/38 on EWCs (recast)
22/06/2011 - Carrefour workers fight against hard discount spin off
22/06/2011 - EU: European trade unions renew opposition to European austerity policy
21/06/2011 - Italy: Cisl and Uil union confederations organize their first "unitary" national demonstration
21/06/2011 - EU: the social partners could negotiate the future framework for socially responsible restructurings
20/06/2011 - Italy: Fiom-CGIL launches first independent metalworkers' social network, the FiomNetWork
20/06/2011 - Spain: why is the reform of collective bargaining contingent on the social partners at national level?
17/06/2011 - Great Britain: public sector employees start mobilizing against austerity program
16/06/2011 - Germany: quick renegotiation of collective agreements in wholesale trade and hope in retail trade
15/06/2011 - Spain: mass layoff for "planned" and "temporary losses allowed
14/06/2011 - UniCredit EWC: a successful first four years
14/06/2011 - EU: 4th Congress of the European Metalworkers' Federation paves the way for the final stage of the creation of a new joint Industry Federation
14/06/2011 - Belgium: new collective agreement in the metal industry
13/06/2011 - EU: the Commission is tightening the net around national collective bargaining in the Twenty Seven
13/06/2011 - Spain: Council of Ministers adopts royal decree reforming collective bargaining
10/06/2011 - UNI Europa Commerce wants transparency & consultation on CORA Project
09/06/2011 - Great Britain: bitter end to the conflict for the employees of the Hull bio-ethanol plant
09/06/2011 - Germany: in energy, EON employees get a wage increase divided in two over 19 months
07/06/2011 - Germany: Airbus employees are preparing strikes to limit appeal to agency workers and secure employment guarantee until 2020
06/06/2011 - Spain: employers and unions break off talks on the reform of collective bargaining
06/06/2011 - Italy: giving in to union pressure, Fincantieri withdraws restructuring plan
01/06/2011 - Italy: Eni signs two key agreements for its restructuring in Italy
01/06/2011 - Germany: court cancels all agreements negotiated by the Union of Christian Unions in the temporary industry (CGZP)
01/06/2011 - Italy: 19th annual Istat report reveals Italy's "weaknesses"
31/05/2011 - Alstom: management and unions disagree on the assessment of the company's economic situation
31/05/2011 - Spain: U-turn in CEOE employers' organization jeopardizes agreement on collective bargaining reform
27/05/2011 - International: unions accuse DHL of violating fundamental social rights
27/05/2011 - OECD: guidelines for multinational enterprises updated
27/05/2011 - Great Britain: Royal Mail employees vote for strike in London
27/05/2011 - Spain: Telefónica reveals plan to cut staffing by 25% in five years
26/05/2011 - Spain: unions announce that they got 750,000 signatures to request a popular legislative initiative against the labor market reform
25/05/2011 - Italy: are Fiat Industrial's unions more "united" than Fiat Auto's?
24/05/2011 - France: first substantive decision on the link between European and national structures in favor of prior consultation of the EWC
23/05/2011 - Germany: only 2.2 million of employees are covered by sectoral minimum wage negotiated by the social partners
23/05/2011 - Spain: Spanish spring social movement caught majority unions unprepared
23/05/2011 - Italy: Cisl and Uil proclaim themselves "unitary reformer union"
20/05/2011 - EU: priorities of the European Trade Union Confederation for the four years to come
20/05/2011 - Sweden: manufacturing unions adopt new model agreement
20/05/2011 - Belgium: textile negotiations about to end
20/05/2011 - Germany: GDL train drivers' union signs company agreement with SBB Cargo Deutschland rail company
19/05/2011 - EU: new team at the head of the European Trade Union Confederation
19/05/2011 - EU: interview of Bernadette Ségol, new general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation
19/05/2011 - Germany: ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt provides "children's hotel" open 24/7 to its employees
18/05/2011 - EU: 12th ETUC Congress matches European trade union solidarity against governments' national withdrawal
18/05/2011 - Belgium: report on negotiations in the metal industry
17/05/2011 - Spain: CCOO define guidelines for the future
16/05/2011 - Italy: Inail's occupational medicine department publishes "White Paper on exposure to nanomaterials and their impact on workers' health and safety"
16/05/2011 - Great Britain: end of the dispute between British Airways and the Unite union
16/05/2011 - Sodexo: mass catering company and SEIU union settle accounts through legal action
12/05/2011 - Germany: employees' productivity keeps increasing with age (Study)
12/05/2011 - Great Britain: government announces next steps in labor law simplification
11/05/2011 - Italy: CGIL rejoices with the success of its general strike against the Berlusconi administration's economic policy
11/05/2011 - France Telecom: first meeting for the global works council
10/05/2011 - Greece: general strike on May 11th against the new austerity measures envisioned by the government
10/05/2011 - IBM: creation of a global union alliance
09/05/2011 - Germany: after the temporary sector, surveillance is getting sectoral minimum wage
09/05/2011 - Austria: 3.05% increase for the 45,000 employees of the chemical industry
06/05/2011 - Germany: sharp decline in the number of industrial conflicts in 2010
06/05/2011 - EU: Michael Wolters elected EMCEF general secretary
06/05/2011 - Germany: ruling forces Daimler to review categorization of executive staff (leitende Angestellte)
05/05/2011 - Denmark: 3F union strengthens action against social dumping
05/05/2011 - Italy: 87.63% of employees of the former Carrozzerie Bertone accept the conditions set out by Fiat to save their job
05/05/2011 - Romania: Social Code to regulate collective industrial relations passed and declared constitutional
04/05/2011 - Portugal: union mobilization against worsening social atmosphere
03/05/2011 - Belgium: agreement on draft new collective agreement in clothing industry
02/05/2011 - Hungary: government reveals draft reforms to introduce flexibility to employment relations
02/05/2011 - Spain: higher unemployment and cooperation between unions and courts help lower the number of industrial accidents
02/05/2011 - Italy: unitary strike on May Day in the commerce sector
28/04/2011 - Italy: after a 9th legal victory over the application of the metal CCN born from the separate 2009 agreement, the Fiom puts appeals on hold in favor of bargaining
28/04/2011 - Spain: Iberdrola to sign agreement with unions to link wage increases with productivity
27/04/2011 - Spain: early retirement more expensive for businesses making profit
27/04/2011 - Netherlands: agreement in principle in heavy metal
21/04/2011 - Denmark: the working conditions of 'atypical' workers have been worsening for ten years
20/04/2011 - Italy: Fiom wins first appeal against the application of the 2009 separate agreement on the metal CCN
19/04/2011 - Italy: ThyssenKrupp CEO sentenced to 16.5 years in prison for murder after the fire in the Turin establishment in 2007
18/04/2011 - EU: chemistry social partners define framework on the competence profiles of two "key" positions
18/04/2011 - Germany: GDL train drivers' union and Deutsche Bahn sign three collective agreements
15/04/2011 - Slovakia: key Labor Code reform in the offing
14/04/2011 - Areva: interview of Philippe Vivien, Group HR manager, about the European agreement on forecasting and anticipating employment and competences
14/04/2011 - EU: European Commission plans legislative procedure to regulate the right to strike in case of conflicts with the freedom to provide services
14/04/2011 - Ireland: new government faces heavy social agenda
13/04/2011 - Portugal: social concern after asking the IMF and the European Stabilization Fund for help
12/04/2011 - EU: temporary social partners adopt work program 2011-2012
12/04/2011 - Austria: Telekom Austria takes up internal and external interim
12/04/2011 - Spain: Correos signs collective agreement
11/04/2011 - Romania: government ready to engage liability on the reform of collective labor relations
11/04/2011 - Germany: Federal Labor Court makes appeal to fixed-term contracts more flexible
11/04/2011 - Italy: banking unions present unitary platform for the renewal of the sector's collective agreement
07/04/2011 - Romania: tense negotiations on the reform of collective industrial relations
07/04/2011 - Italy: broken negotiations on the national insurance collective agreement cause several mobilizations
07/04/2011 - Great Britain: new social conflict in engineering construction industry
06/04/2011 - Netherlands: threat of conflict in the light metal industry
06/04/2011 - Italy: tough negotiations ahead for the renewal of the national banking collective agreement
06/04/2011 - Germany: Verdi calls for 6.5% increase for the 2.9 million commerce employees
05/04/2011 - Netherlands: postal businesses promise to hire 80% of their current daily mailmen
05/04/2011 - United States: UWUA union wants to talk environment with GDF Suez
05/04/2011 - Italy: unitary transport strike paralyzed cities across the country
04/04/2011 - Areva: new European agreement on forecasting and anticipating employment and competences
04/04/2011 - Italy: metal unions sign unitary agreement with Electrolux on restructuring program in Italy
01/04/2011 - Alstom: unions worried about non-compliance with European framework agreement on the anticipation of change
01/04/2011 - Alstom: European agreement on the anticipation of change
01/04/2011 - Alstom/Schneider Electric: European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
01/04/2011 - Alstom/Schneider Electric: interview of Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, about the European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
31/03/2011 - Sweden: since temporary work is progressing, unions and temporary agencies are looking for ways to work together
31/03/2011 - Germany: large businesses refuse the government's proposal to increase the proportion of executive women
31/03/2011 - EU: European social partners agree to negotiate the review of the working time directive but disagree on the extent of the negotiation
30/03/2011 - Slovakia: permanent adoption of the law on maternity leave, equal treatment and EWCs
30/03/2011 - Italy: executive committee of the Cisl's metal federation, Fim, defines priorities for 2011
30/03/2011 - Great Britain: shop workers' union alarmed about the categorization of shops as low-risk workplaces
29/03/2011 - Romania: key novelties of the new Labor Code
29/03/2011 - Netherlands: the fate of precarious workers at the center of ongoing negotiations for collective agreements
29/03/2011 - Spain: limiting appeal to temporary work in high voltage electricity
29/03/2011 - Great Britain: British Airways employees vote to back strike action to protest against the management's retaliation against the strike movement in 2010
29/03/2011 - Alstom: unions worried about non-compliance with European framework agreement on the anticipation of change
28/03/2011 - Germany: new Act against social dumping in temporary sector blamed for lacking in ambition and being unclear
28/03/2011 - Germany: Verdi union and Deutsche Telekom agree on increases ranging between 3.15 and 5.15%
28/03/2011 - Great Britain: great turnout for TUC demonstration against government austerity policy
25/03/2011 - Italy: right wing union Confederation, UGL, is celebrating its 60th birthday
25/03/2011 - Germany: Federal Labor Court limits advantages negotiated for union members only
25/03/2011 - EU: European Parliament adopts draft on single permit
24/03/2011 - Germany: adoption of the bill on the recognition of foreign degrees to combat the shortage in skilled workers
24/03/2011 - Great Britain: deregulation and improving skills on the menu of the 2011 Budget
23/03/2011 - Belgium: textile social partners negotiate 2011-2012 collective agreements
23/03/2011 - Denmark: government and opposition agree on 2012-2020 working environment strategy
23/03/2011 - Portugal: "temporary" agreement between the social partners on the program for the improvement of competitiveness and employment
22/03/2011 - Sweden: after tough start for the "Brev 2010" cost cutting program, the management of the Swedish Post commits to review work organization
22/03/2011 - Great Britain: government reforms health and safety regulations
21/03/2011 - France: administrative directive clarifies procedure for offering redeployment abroad within the framework of economic layoffs
21/03/2011 - Austria: "Act against social and wage dumping" passed in preparation for the opening of the labor market on May 1, 2011
21/03/2011 - Portugal: difficult social dialogue on employment and competitiveness without the CGTP
18/03/2011 - Sweden: agreement only just reached in banking and finance
17/03/2011 - Great Britain: Unite union threatens Ford with strike
17/03/2011 - Spain: call-center unions call for 8 days of strike
16/03/2011 - Norsk Hydro: new global framework agreement
16/03/2011 - Romania: adoption of the new Labor Code
15/03/2011 - Spain: home stretch for the debate on the collective bargaining reform
14/03/2011 - Spain: adoption of the bill transposing the new EWC directive
14/03/2011 - Alstom: interview of Patrick Dubert and Noël Huret, respectively HR manager and IR manager of the Group, on the European agreement on the anticipation of change
11/03/2011 - France: "the debate on the competitiveness differential between France and Germany is simplistic and does not take account of non-price factors" (Eric Heyer)
10/03/2011 - EU: UNI Europa wants to boost EWCs in the trade industry
10/03/2011 - Italy: social partners set guidelines for territorial agreements for the tax exemption of productivity wages
09/03/2011 - Italy: social partners sign joint opinion on work-life balance
09/03/2011 - Spain: union report on gender equality plans
09/03/2011 - Luxembourg: renewal of banking collective agreement
08/03/2011 - EU: Member States insist on the respect of their national competence regarding pensions
08/03/2011 - Great Britain: report gibes at vocational education and calls for a recast
08/03/2011 - Germany: train drivers overwhelmingly vote for unlimited strike
08/03/2011 - Germany: first pay bargaining round in construction failed
08/03/2011 - Great Britain: government establishes fund of up to GBP 50 million a year to improve skills
07/03/2011 - Germany: IAB institute says labor market is increasingly segmented
07/03/2011 - EU: more initiatives on health and safety in the framework of social dialogue in chemistry
07/03/2011 - Belgium: successful mobilization against cross-industry agreement
07/03/2011 - Sweden: first agreement on the posting of foreign workers signed in manufacturing
04/03/2011 - Germany: IG-Metall starts reform home stretch in pain
04/03/2011 - Italy: CGIL calls for general strike on May 6th
03/03/2011 - Spain: heart attacks during working hours are industrial accidents
03/03/2011 - Italy: Labor Minister presents guidelines on work-life balance
02/03/2011 - Spain: the social partners are making progress in the debate for the collective bargaining reform
02/03/2011 - Italy: trade and services social partners renew the sector's collective agreement via separate agreement
02/03/2011 - GDF SUEZ: start of European negotiations on professional equality between men and women
01/03/2011 - Romania: now that the Labor Code reform is adopted, the government commits itself to this text
01/03/2011 - Spain: Nissan WC election confirms unions that supported competitiveness pacts negotiated with the management
01/03/2011 - Alstom: European agreement on the anticipation of change
01/03/2011 - Germany: employers say hundreds of temporary work agencies could go bankrupt
28/02/2011 - EU: report on the implementation of the European social partners' agreement on stress
28/02/2011 - Romania: ArcelorMittal employees to strike soon
25/02/2011 - Germany: unions launch national action day in 1,000 businesses for equal treatment between permanent and temporary employees
25/02/2011 - Great Britain: no quotas for women on boards
24/02/2011 - Greece: protest is not getting weaker
24/02/2011 - Sweden: government suggests simpler appeal to overtime and introduction of hygiene and security committee
24/02/2011 - Finland: social partners commit to continue action organized since 2005 to reduce the gender pay gap
23/02/2011 - Great Britain: pay disputes spread because of increasing cost of living
23/02/2011 - Germany: 130,000 employees in textile get a 3.6% wage increase
23/02/2011 - Italy: Supreme Court recognizes second-hand smoke as an occupational disease
22/02/2011 - Denmark: sponsorship, unions' new "weapon" to recruit new members
22/02/2011 - Belgium: government chooses its compromise offer to make up for the absence of cross-industry agreement
22/02/2011 - Austria: Telekom Austria offers "golden early retirement" to its employees
21/02/2011 - Germany: Hartz IV regulations reforming unemployment insurance didn't help reinstate long-term jobseekers
21/02/2011 - Netherlands: new pilot-project to avoid long-term unemployment
21/02/2011 - Italy: 3rd national conference of call center workers warns about relocations in the industry
21/02/2011 - Rhodia: renewal of the global agreements on social and environmental responsibility
21/02/2011 - Germany: government agrees to the introduction of minimum wage in interim, surveillance and continuous education
18/02/2011 - Austria: great internal retraining program in Austrian railway is having a hard time taking off
18/02/2011 - Italy: CGIL's federation of Commerce, Filcams, launches campaign to regulate work on legal holidays
18/02/2011 - Netherlands: negotiations open in the basic metal industry
17/02/2011 - Italy: Uilm held first "cross-territory" national assembly
17/02/2011 - Germany: working time reduction to care for dependent people subject to company's consent
17/02/2011 - Germany: collective bargaining fails again at Deutsche Telekom, leading to three weeks of warning strikes
16/02/2011 - Germany: one plant at a time, Continental Automotive negotiates "derogatory agreements" way below the sectoral collective agreement
16/02/2011 - Belgium: mediation on 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement failed
16/02/2011 - Denmark: labor inspectorate suspended the activity of 85% of foreign businesses controlled last year
15/02/2011 - Denmark: flexicurity system weakened by recent reforms
15/02/2011 - Spain: first election at Seat after controversial competitiveness agreement of 2009 strengthens UGT union
14/02/2011 - Spain: Council of Ministers adopts action plan for employment
14/02/2011 - Great Britain: the use of injunctions by the employers to prevent strikes is easier
14/02/2011 - Belgium: mediation on the 2011-2012 cross-industry agreement
11/02/2011 - Germany: GDL train drivers union's decision to launch strikes as of February 16th revives debate on "tariff unity"
11/02/2011 - Romania: labor inspectors get more powers to better combat illegal labor
11/02/2011 - Italy: independent unions proclaim general strike on March 11th
11/02/2011 - Italy: gas and water social partners sign unitary agreement for the renewal of the sector's CCN
10/02/2011 - EU: European Construction Mobility Information Net now available
10/02/2011 - Italy: method for mandatory assessment of the risk of work-related stress
10/02/2011 - Austria: transferring civil servants from the post and Telekom Austria to the police is harder than expected
10/02/2011 - Netherlands: no restructuring for DHL in 2011
09/02/2011 - EU: Sylvain Lefebvre, EMCEF political secretary, says new EWC directive "gives impetus to bargaining"
09/02/2011 - Germany: IG-Metall union calls for 5% wage increase for 130,000 employees in textile and clothing
09/02/2011 - Netherlands: unions to be consulted in the event of amicable termination of the labor contract for a number of employees
09/02/2011 - Spain: employers and unions tackle collective bargaining reform
08/02/2011 - EU: the social models of the 27 Member States at the heart of the debate on the future European economic governance
08/02/2011 - Netherlands: tough negotiations at NXP, Philips subsidiary
08/02/2011 - Germany: Volkswagen staff get 3.2% pay rise
07/02/2011 - Belgium: FGTB and CGSBL reject cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
07/02/2011 - Portugal: rotating and partial strikes all week against austerity
04/02/2011 - Italy: social partners in "logistics, transportation and goods delivering" industry renew CCN with a unitary agreement
04/02/2011 - Romania: fierce negotiations on the new Labor Code
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03/02/2011 - Hungary: new regulations concerning full-time job combined with parental benefit
02/02/2011 - Spain: government, employers and unions sign "grand social pact"
02/02/2011 - Great Britain: TUC develops work program to coordinate affiliates' industrial action against the government's policy
01/02/2011 - EU: difficult implementation of the new EWC directive in the temporary industry
01/02/2011 - Sweden: manufacturing unions united again before fall negotiations
01/02/2011 - Spain: government and social partners sign ace plan on the employment of young people and long-term jobseekers
01/02/2011 - EU: European Commission publishes guide for the procurement of socially responsible contracts
31/01/2011 - Italy: Fiom-CGIL mobilization on January 28th against Fiat's maneuvers and to defend collective bargaining
31/01/2011 - Spain: agreement between the social partners to unfreeze the reform of collective bargaining
30/01/2011 - Spain: government presents draft bill on retirement at 67 after agreement with the social partners
28/01/2011 - Portugal: government presents new system for layoff compensation to the social partners
28/01/2011 - United States: unionization rate dips below 12%
28/01/2011 - Netherlands: FNV union wants to tackle abusive use of youth minimum wage in supermarkets
28/01/2011 - Ireland: unions denounce the European Commission's interference with the review of sectoral wage agreements
28/01/2011 - Italy: memorandum of understanding between banks, businesses and the Ministry of Economic Development to promote the CSR culture
28/01/2011 - Belgium: restructuring at Bpost, the former public post
27/01/2011 - Sodexo: the union campaign against the French catering company is spreading and diversifying
27/01/2011 - Germany: first report on equal opportunities between men and women at work recommends radical shift in policy
26/01/2011 - Netherlands: employers and unions agree on collective bargaining priorities for coming years
26/01/2011 - Germany: Deutsche Bahn staff get 5% increase and extended job security
26/01/2011 - Portugal: tense social atmosphere at the Portuguese post while liberalization is running late
25/01/2011 - EU: European gas social partners hanging on European Commission's future choices
25/01/2011 - Great Britain: British Airways cabin crew vote for another strike after 13 months of conflict
24/01/2011 - Germany: construction union IG-BAU claims for a 5.9% wage increase
24/01/2011 - Italy: driven by Fiat, employers want to quicken the "modernization" of industrial relations
24/01/2011 - Netherlands: short-time working to end on July 1st
24/01/2011 - Germany: GDL train drivers' union threatens with a strike in February to defend its status of negotiator
24/01/2011 - Germany: IG-Metall wants to durably add political factors to the "calculation" of collective claims
21/01/2011 - Austria: real wages markedly decreased in 2010
20/01/2011 - New agreement at Caterpillar in Belgium
20/01/2011 - Belgium: social partners sign cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
20/01/2011 - Germany: mass rebellion from banks' account managers against bill introducing threat of exclusion from public-sector employment
20/01/2011 - Spain: outcry against plan to extend stores' opening hours
20/01/2011 - Great Britain: government publishes Pensions Bill 2011
19/01/2011 - Italy: CGIL proposal to change representation and union democracy rules
19/01/2011 - Electrolux: international framework agreement signed with Swedish metalworkers' union, IF Metall
18/01/2011 - Great Britain: fathers at the center of the government's draft reform of parental leave
17/01/2011 - Italy: 54% of Fiat Mirafiori employees approve the separate agreement on the plant's future
17/01/2011 - Great Britain: government confirms abolition of default retirement age and publishes guide for employers
17/01/2011 - Portugal: employers recommend temporary flexibility on labor laws
17/01/2011 - France: Directive 2009/38 on EWCs (recast) to be transposed via ordinance
17/01/2011 - Germany: new "historical" sectoral collective agreement in local rail traffic
14/01/2011 - Germany: unions declare war on abusive appeal to temporary work and are preparing the final attack to impose minimum wage by May 2011
14/01/2011 - Great Britain: Communication Workers' Union (CWU) organises very active campaign to defeat the privatisation of Royal Mail
14/01/2011 - Italy: the future of territorial social bargaining at the heart of the CGIL's 2nd National Assembly of local structures
13/01/2011 - Spain: Nissan Barcelona employs support productivity program negotiated to stay in the run to the award of new pick-up trucks
12/01/2011 - Austria: new "black book" of infringements to labor law sparks off controversy
11/01/2011 - Great Britain: government considers reforming employment tribunals
11/01/2011 - Germany: IG-Metall supports UAW's recruitment campaign in the American plants of German carmakers
10/01/2011 - EU: publication of the report on the work of the group of experts in charge of the implementation of the new EWC directive
10/01/2011 - Poland: ENEA S.A. unions object to EDF taking control of the company
06/01/2011 - Italy: with the Pomigliano company agreement, Fiat ends the first act of its strategy to question the Italian industrial relations system
04/01/2011 - Belgium: social partners transpose new EWC directive
03/01/2011 - Italy: Fiat signs new derogatory agreement for Mirafiori plant
03/01/2011 - Poland: 5.24% minimum wage increase on January 1, 2011
30/12/2010 - Social conflict in Brink's
30/12/2010 - Transnational negotiations - Alstom
23/12/2010 - Portugal: minimum wage will increase to EUR500 in 2011, but gradually
23/12/2010 - Estonia: unions demand minimum wage increase and social budgets
23/12/2010 - Sweden: new sectoral agreement in communications provides for 2.9% wage increase
21/12/2010 - EU: insight into the impact of social dialogue on the management of the crisis in the automotive sector
21/12/2010 - EU: focus on the work done by the group of experts on the implementation of the new EWC directive
21/12/2010 - Germany: unions' view of the bill transposing the EWC directive
20/12/2010 - Great Britain: employers want listed businesses to be transparent regarding the number of women on boards
17/12/2010 - Italy: new Fiat-Chrysler joint venture will remain outside the Italian industrial relations system
17/12/2010 - Portugal: government wants to limit layoff pay and facilitate negotiation at company level
17/12/2010 - Germany: adoption of the bill transposing the EWC directive
16/12/2010 - Greece: latest mobilization episode shows people are still angry
15/12/2010 - Germany: Siemens announces the withdrawal of variable pay for board members
15/12/2010 - Germany: 2010 collective agreements marked by the crisis
15/12/2010 - Italy: Telecom Italia launches its "school of labor relations"
14/12/2010 - Veolia Environnement: rider to EWC agreement introduces flexible exchange of views
14/12/2010 - Italy: Indesit management and unions agree on national restructuring program
13/12/2010 - European Action Day at Bosch Europe
13/12/2010 - Netherlands: strike continues at TNT Post
13/12/2010 - Germany: Verdi union calls for a 6.5% wage increase for Deutsche Telekom staff
07/12/2010 - Germany: IG-Metall demands a 6% increase for Volkswagen's employees
07/12/2010 - EU: Belgian presidency seeks the path of compromise on maternity leave
06/12/2010 - Sweden: The Phone House AB given permission to fingerprint its employees to monitor working time
06/12/2010 - Italy: Fiat leaves negotiating table with unions on the future of the Mirafiori site
06/12/2010 - EU: 13 action tracks to improve employment and skills
03/12/2010 - EU: Dublin Foundation publishes the first results of its 5th European survey on working conditions
03/12/2010 - Belgium: Ford signs four-year agreement with Belgian unions
02/12/2010 - Italy: government adopts new "anticrisis" measures for young people
02/12/2010 - EADS: interview of Frédéric Agenet, EADS Director of Industrial Relations, on the agreement establishing a bargaining procedure at European level
02/12/2010 - Romania: first draft of the new Labor Code
01/12/2010 - Germany: new company agreement on the protection of data at the Deutsche Bahn
29/11/2010 - Italy: government agrees to bill introducing a quota for 30% of women on boards
29/11/2010 - Germany: BASF grants job security to 33,000 employees until 2015
26/11/2010 - Spain: unions and employers prepare the reform of collective bargaining
24/11/2010 - Germany: IG-Metall wants to "strike at" the renewable energy sector
24/11/2010 - Portugal: unitary general strike of Wednesday November 24th qualified of the "biggest ever"
23/11/2010 - Italy: pharmaceutical-chemistry social partners reach national agreement on CSR guidelines
23/11/2010 - Great Britain: Tesco chain stores introduce overtime booking system
23/11/2010 - GDF Suez: interview of Bernard Parmantier, industrial relations director of the group, on the global agreement on fundamental rights, social dialogue and sustainable development
19/11/2010 - GDF Suez: signature of a global agreement on fundamental rights, social dialogue and sustainable development
17/11/2010 - Veolia - EWC negotiations ongoing
17/11/2010 - BNP Paribas - functioning of the EWC reviewed
17/11/2010 - Great Britain: new strategy for training and apprenticeship shows the start of the State financially disengaging
16/11/2010 - Italy: to reach the young, the CGIL is using the "social guerrilla"
16/11/2010 - Netherlands: strike at TNT Post to reduce the number of job cuts
16/11/2010 - Czech Republic: adoption of amendments to labour and social security laws
16/11/2010 - Germany: new health reform causes the wrath of employers and trade unions
15/11/2010 - Areva: EWC calls for quick recapitalization
15/11/2010 - Italy: introduction of the draft reform turning the Statute of Workers into the Statute of Works
12/11/2010 - EU: interview with Dominique Bailly, chairman of the European social dialogue committee of the postal sector
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10/11/2010 - Belgium: cross-industry negotiations on a 5% available 'wage cushion' opened
09/11/2010 - Portugal: Volkswagen Autoeuropa workers get the wage increases they asked for
08/11/2010 - Press release EWC Petroplus 25/10/2010
08/11/2010 - Ireland: government launched consultation on the transposition of the directive on temporary agency work
03/11/2010 - Germany: Alstom employees request job security at European level
29/10/2010 - EU: the Commission wants to put the industry back at the center of development and European growth
28/10/2010 - EU: Court starts applying the protection of employees in the event of transfer of undertaking to a triangular employment relationship
28/10/2010 - Kimberly Clark: unions and management formalize transnational social dialog in a joint declaration
26/10/2010 - Italy: precarious jobs are soaring in the banking sector
22/10/2010 - Italy: UniCredit signs unitary agreement with unions on its restructuring program 2010-2013
22/10/2010 - EU: telecom social partners publish good practices guidelines on mental health at work
22/10/2010 - EWC GdfSuez expresses support for French industrial action
22/10/2010 - Unions meet to consider EWCs in Spanish FCC, Ferrovial and ACS
21/10/2010 - Italy: final adoption of labor dispute reform
20/10/2010 - Lukoil intends to install EWC
19/10/2010 - Dexia: challenges and prospects
18/10/2010 - Netherlands: FNV wants "labor policy" and an "update to the Finnish level"
18/10/2010 - Opel/Vauxhall gives Investor and Antwerp Workforce No Chance
14/10/2010 - Rhodia: interview with Bernard Chambon, President of Rhodia Chemistry, and Jacques Kheliff, sustainable development director
14/10/2010 - Denmark: union membership is decreasing, threatening the Danish model
13/10/2010 - Italy: CGIL denounces new blow to health and safety at work regulations
13/10/2010 - Building the European Works Councils in the TAW sector
13/10/2010 - 3000 workers affected by Metro centralisation plans
12/10/2010 - Slovakia: draft bill on the reform of the Labor Code about parental leave, EWCs and appeal to temporary work
12/10/2010 - Sweden: Sandvik allows workers and executives to arrange the end of their career after 61
12/10/2010 - EU: the schedule and content of the future framework on the anticipation of change and restructuring are taking shape
11/10/2010 - Germany: federal government launches "national action plan for corporate social responsibility"
08/10/2010 - Greece: new decree questions national collective agreements
07/10/2010 - Sodexo: union coordination attacks the international group caterer
06/10/2010 - DHL employees demand respect as new report shows worker abuses
05/10/2010 - EFFAT statement on the plant performance project (PPP) restructuring in Coca-Cola Enterprise (CCE)
05/10/2010 - international framework agreement for Pfleiderer AG
04/10/2010 - Meeting of the Saica EWC
30/09/2010 - Italy: Fim and Uilm unions sign agreement allowing businesses to derogate from the metal national collective agreement
30/09/2010 - Spain: uneven turnout at the general strike
30/09/2010 - Metalworkers stand together for a sustainable future in the FIAT group
29/09/2010 - Telekom Indonesia: the group signs a global framework agreement with Uni Global
28/09/2010 - EADS: new European agreement defining a framework for future transnational negotiations
27/09/2010 - H&M: Swedish clothing line sets up a global financial bonus system to increase employees' commitment
27/09/2010 - Great Britain: Unite and Sun Chemicals sign a company collective agreement going against the increased decentralization trend in bargaining
27/09/2010 - Italy: unitary framework agreement on the restructuring of Telecom Italia
21/09/2010 - Germany: as promised, Schaeffler introduces joint management
21/09/2010 - Unite to sign national collective bargaining agreement with Sun Chemical
20/09/2010 - Germany: Transnet and GDBA unions present private rail companies with an ultimatum
20/09/2010 - Bosch: Closure of plant in Wales
20/09/2010 - Press Release European Action Day at Bosch Europe. Metalworkers call for a coherent and consistent industrial policy, and for consequent social responsibility of Bosch.
20/09/2010 - Statkraft sets up a European Works Council – matching the industrial ambition with our social responsibility
20/09/2010 - Netherlands: TNT to cut "4,500" jobs maximum
14/09/2010 - France: Continental employees agree to the management's savings plan despite pressure from their European colleagues
14/09/2010 - France: Continental employees agree to the management's savings plan despite pressure from their European colleagues
13/09/2010 - EDF EWC issues negative opinion on the sale of UK Networks to Cheung Kong
08/09/2010 - Italy: groundbreaking company agreements bank on consensus
07/09/2010 - Italy: Poste Italiane could be the first company to try employee profit-sharing
06/09/2010 - PPR: group takes European commitment on the quality of life at work and the prevention of work-related stress
03/09/2010 - Italy: Confindustria and Federmeccanica are willing to amend the metal CCN so Fiat will remain in the employers' organization
02/09/2010 - Great Britain: government questions employees' right to request time to train
01/09/2010 - Great Britain: Vestas and Linamar, two long conflicts, two different outcomes
27/07/2010 - Italy: tension is rising after Fiat announced the relocation of production in Serbia
22/07/2010 - Etex: construction material firm signs health and safety on the workplace Charter
15/07/2010 - Belgium: employers are furious at early retirement at 50 at Opel Antwerp
15/07/2010 - EU: draft directive to facilitate the transfer of third-country skilled workers within a multinational group
13/07/2010 - Italy: Fiat launches the industrial program for its Pomigliano d'Arco site
13/07/2010 - Great Britain: BT avoids a strike by granting an annual 3% wage increase
13/07/2010 - Italy: Labor Minister publishes employee "participation code"
12/07/2010 - Dekra: the German certification company becomes a European company
08/07/2010 - Germany: social partners agree on a 22-month wage freeze for 50,000 Lufthansa employees
08/07/2010 - Italy: the "Pomigliano effect" against the "Pomigliano model"
07/07/2010 - Alstom/Schneider Electric: interview of Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, about the European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
07/07/2010 - An innovative social agreement
06/07/2010 - Alstom/Schneider Electric: European agreement on social guarantees within the framework of the purchase of Areva T&D
06/07/2010 - Sodexo: unions pressure the mass catering company to negotiate a global agreement
02/07/2010 - Corporate practices: ISS' diversity policy in Denmark
30/06/2010 - Corporate practices: Nordea Finans, the first bank to get the Swedish health label
28/06/2010 - Italy: great turnout for the general strike the CGIL launched against the government's economic maneuver
25/06/2010 - Statkraft: European leader in renewable energy establishes a EWC
25/06/2010 - France Telecom: global works council for the French telco
24/06/2010 - Italy: workers voted yes to the separate agreement on the restructuring of Fiat's Pomigliano site
22/06/2010 - International: charter to increase the financial sector's responsibility
17/06/2010 - Deutsche Telekom: new work-life balance measures
16/06/2010 - HSBC: global action day against the bank
16/06/2010 - PSA Peugeot Citroën: amendment to the worldwide framework agreement on social responsibility
15/06/2010 - Fiom-CGIL rejects the agreement on Fiat-Pomigliano d'Arco's restructuring plan which rams the industrial relations system
11/06/2010 - Philips makes a mockery of employee participation
09/06/2010 - Europe’s electricity companies and Corporate Social Responsibility
02/06/2010 - Opel: management and unions sign European restructuring plan
31/05/2010 - Carrefour: the brand new international union alliance calls for a joint assessment of the framework agreement
20/05/2010 - European Works Council GdfSuez votes to take company to court
16/05/2010 - Corporate Practices: one year later, Scania is learning the lessons from the implementation of the 4-day week as an answer to the economic crisis
05/05/2010 - Air France/KLM: renewal of the agreement on the EWC
04/05/2010 - Air France/KLM: framework agreement to supervise the European-wide reorganization of sales agencies in airports
04/05/2010 - Corporate Practices: Investor AB to promote women's careers at all levels, including boards
30/04/2010 - Caterpillar: unions lay the foundations for a global union network
22/04/2010 - Areva: amendment to the European agreement on equal opportunities establishes social dialog as a pillar for its implementation
19/04/2010 - EU: unions from the cement sector ask for an efficient enforcement of international framework agreements
19/04/2010 - Fiat: unions demand an international framework agreement
19/04/2010 - StatoilHydro: revision of the international framework agreement
19/04/2010 - EADS: information and consultation procedure for relocations outside the EU
16/04/2010 - Unions in Belgium win agreement with DHL
16/04/2010 - http://www.planetlabor.com/Articles/plonearticle.2010-04-16.3765371575/
15/04/2010 - International: International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) to improve union networks in transnational businesses
15/04/2010 - Thales: European framework agreement on the annual activity discussion
15/04/2010 - Thales: interview with Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, on Thales' European agreement on the annual discussion
14/04/2010 - Rhodia: creation of the "Observatory Worldwide Safety"
09/04/2010 - Great-Britain: the bill to transpose the new Directive on European Works Councils lays before the Parliament
01/04/2010 - Areva: interview with Maureen Kearney, European Works Council Secretary and Dominique Chevalier, Bureau Member
18/03/2010 - ELANDERS EWC MEETING 11/03/2010
15/03/2010 - Belgium: Opel Antwerp unions want to look into the possibility to welcome part of the production from other subsidiaries while they find a final solution
11/03/2010 - Areva, Alstom/Schneider Electric: European negotiation on social guarantees in the framework of the sale of Areva T&D
05/03/2010 - UNI Tesco Union Alliance re-affirms commitment to dialogue
03/03/2010 - Shoprite Checkers: the supermarket chain is the second African company to sign an international framework agreement
25/02/2010 - Opel/Vauxhall: six metalworking union leaders and EMF agree on claims for the group's restructuring
25/02/2010 - Opel/Vauxhall: six metalworking union leaders and EMF agree on claims for the group's restructuring
25/02/2010 - GDF Suez: European agreement on fundamental health and safety principles
24/02/2010 - GDF Suez: European agreement on job and skills planning
23/02/2010 - European trade union action in response to Opel/Vauxhall restructuring
19/02/2010 - DHL Belgium headquarters staff set to take industrial action
16/02/2010 - Suez Electrabel health and safety and outsourced services
11/02/2010 - EU: unions present joint recommendations for the negotiation or renegotiation of EWC agreements by June 2011
09/02/2010 - Great Britain: end of the consultation on the transposition of the new EWC directive
03/02/2010 - International Paper: agreement establishing the EWC
01/02/2010 - France: Goodyear Dunlop to stop restructuring of Amiens Nord site until EWC consultation is complete
29/01/2010 - First ever court-ruling in Slovakia
29/01/2010 - Hearings on Disclosure of Company information on Social, Environmental and Governance Information
25/01/2010 - Orange announce 300 jobs under threat in Bristol
22/01/2010 - Germany: Opel's WC calls on all the European employees of the group to protest, on January 26, against the shutdown of the Antwerp plant
17/01/2010 - Gas de France Suez merger - GdF unions given negative opinion
17/01/2010 - EWC Suez discusses employment and long-term investment
17/01/2010 - ENEL SNB makes progress
17/01/2010 - No company immune from financial crisis but GdF-Suez weathers storm?
17/01/2010 - VEOLIA SNB meets third time
17/01/2010 - EDF European Works Council agreement improved
17/01/2010 - EWCs: learning & practising - preparatory meeting
17/01/2010 - Resources on transnational companies
17/01/2010 - Vattenfall’s Corporate Social Responsibility report criticised
17/01/2010 - RWE Energy unions start work even before formal European Works Council is established
17/01/2010 - European Works Council Coordinators meeting 8 April 2005
17/01/2010 - EWC of German energy company RWE reaches agreement on restructuring
16/01/2010 - Transparency for Private Equity Funds
15/01/2010 - Suez EWC expresses its opinion on the merger with Gaz de France
15/01/2010 - SUEZ: No delocalisation of jobs but shared services centres affect jobs
15/01/2010 - Suez 2nd round of negotiations on amending existing EWC agreement
15/01/2010 - EPSU EWC Seminar: European Works Councils and take-overs in applicant countries
15/01/2010 - EPSU European Works Council Coordinators meet
14/01/2010 - Bureau of EWC Suez suspends meeting due to lack of information
14/01/2010 - EWC SUEZ meets but lacks important information on merger project
14/01/2010 - Negotiations on amended EWC agreement of Suez
14/01/2010 - Delegation of SUEZ EWC meets Commission’s competition officials
14/01/2010 - Bureau of EWC Suez discusses ethics, company results, health and safety…
14/01/2010 - SUEZ EWC condemns partial and incomplete information on restructuring
14/01/2010 - Gas de France European Works Council meets to consider merger with Suez
14/01/2010 - Bureau EWC SUEZ meets amid rumours of eminent hostile bid of ENEL
13/01/2010 - Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia: EWCs petition to improve competitiveness and protect jobs in ITC
06/01/2010 - EU: report points to energy EWCs' poor participation in CSR policies
06/01/2010 - EU: report points to energy EWCs' poor participation in CSR policies
21/12/2009 - Rio Tinto-Alcan: EWC informed of 2.000 job cuts in Europe
15/12/2009 - Energy European Works Council representatives consider CSR, Corporate Policies, EWC Directive
15/12/2009 - Energy European Works Council representatives consider CSR, Corporate Policies, EWC Directive
09/12/2009 - EU: employment and skills at the heart of the revival of European sectoral social dialog in finance
07/12/2009 - New EWC of Gdf Suez starts its work: information to workers
03/12/2009 - Italy: Fiat confirms automotive production halt in Sicilian plant
02/12/2009 - Areva: EWC denounces bad sales conditions for workers at its T&D branch
01/12/2009 - CS MediaGroup planning the installation of an EWC by the end of 2009 (news in French)
27/11/2009 - Brink's: the group establishes a EWC applying subsidiary requirements but based on the new directive
16/11/2009 - Company: EPSU European trade union adopts internal procedure for the negotiation of transnational agreements
06/11/2009 - Volkswagen: global Charter on employee representatives' participation rights
04/11/2009 - GM Europe workers deserve a reliable future
04/11/2009 - EDF: EWC mobilizes for EDF Polska's employees
04/11/2009 - Germany: offended by General Motors' decision to keep Opel, unions become hostile
03/11/2009 - EMF fully supports AREVA EWC views on proposed AREVA T&G sale
02/11/2009 - ArcelorMittal: European framework agreement on social dialog and anticipating change
02/11/2009 - Alcatel-Lucent: EWC develops strategy to defend employment in the group and the European telecom industry
29/10/2009 - Brink's will sign EWC before the end of 2009
29/10/2009 - Sabena technics (TAT group) will probably sign an EWC agreement in December
29/10/2009 - SE WC agreement expected to be signed in Mutavie in November 2009
28/10/2009 - Danone: European Works Council extended at global level
22/10/2009 - RR Donnelley: EWC agreement
16/10/2009 - GDF Suez: EWC members elect a Belgian member as their secretary
16/10/2009 - Spain: unions and Magna failed to reach an agreement on the future of Opel's Figueruelas site
14/10/2009 - EU: European and international union federations sign a charter on "sustainable" tourism
13/10/2009 - Federal Mogul EWC expresses solidarity with Italian workers in Desenzano
30/09/2009 - Transnational agreements move forward
30/09/2009 - Unicredit: global union alliance within the group
24/09/2009 - Saint-Gobain: new amendment strengthening the EWC's information and consultation rights
24/09/2009 - Opel: European trade unions mobilized against the shutdown of the Antwerp site
16/09/2009 - General Motors: Magna's takeover of Opel creates fear
16/09/2009 - EU: BusinessEurope wrote a note on the impact of the new EWC directive on existing agreements
15/09/2009 - Huge response from Areva workers today to prevent the sale of the T&D Division and safeguard jobs
15/09/2009 - Update on today’s Areva actions - Surprising and disappointing reaction from French PM
14/09/2009 - Extraordinary joint EWC meeting – final one
08/09/2009 - Areva: EMF and EWC protest against the possible sale of Areva T&D
08/09/2009 - Germany: E.ON suspends economic layoffs until 2012
07/09/2009 - For jobs and a future at AREVA - Rally on 15 September in Paris
31/08/2009 - Trade unions at Fiat create a global network
31/08/2009 - UniCredit: the groups signs a joint declaration on diversity with its EWC
25/08/2009 - Dräger signs EWC agreement
28/07/2009 - Club Med: agreement on fundamental rights and transnational mobility to be signed in September
21/07/2009 - Colgate-Palmolive: renewal of the agreement establishing the EWC in the wake of the new directive
20/07/2009 - Fiat: global union network under the aegis of the International Metalworkers' Federation
16/07/2009 - Company: Eurofound's report on international and European framework agreements
15/07/2009 - HP/EDS management cannot muzzle workers’ representatives
09/07/2009 - British Airways: management to inform and consult EWC for national measures
09/07/2009 - ArcelorMittal: final European framework agreement on anticipating change
03/07/2009 - HP: EWC and unions against the social plan
03/07/2009 - ArcelorMittal: coming conclusion of a transnational agreement on anticipating change
30/06/2009 - Support for AEES (Alcoa) protest demonstration on 1st July 2009
25/06/2009 - L'Oréal: rider to the agreement establishing the EWC
18/06/2009 - Axa: impending agreement renewing the insurer's EWC
17/06/2009 - EU: 3rd ETF congress defends sustainable transport
16/06/2009 - Areva: EWC opposed to the transfer of the T&D branch
11/06/2009 - Thales: European agreement on anticipation and professional development
11/06/2009 - Thales: European agreement on anticipation and professional development
03/06/2009 - E.ON Energy Trading: German company becomes a SE
02/06/2009 - Poland: permanent adoption of the amendment on the appointment of board members
01/06/2009 - Enel: Italian energy group publishes CSR agreement
19/05/2009 - EWC of CEZ evaluates functioning
18/05/2009 - EU: new EWC directive published in the Official Journal
18/05/2009 - ABB: European appendix to the group's social policy signed with the EWC
18/05/2009 - TUI: renewal of the agreement on the TUI Europa Forum, the European staff representation structure
14/05/2009 - Schering-Plough: EWC demands further consultation on the merger with Merck
13/05/2009 - Biomet Europe: establishment of a European works council
11/05/2009 - GDF SUEZ: agreement establishing the new European works council signed
11/05/2009 - General Motors Europe: management terminates European framework agreement on working time reduction signed at Opel
11/05/2009 - Italy: Enel signs two protocols on industrial relations
07/05/2009 - EU: publication of the acts of the conference on transnational bargaining organized by the French Presidency (November 2008)
06/05/2009 - Negotiators sign new EWC agreement Gdf-Suez
05/05/2009 - Areva: interview of the members of the pilot committee of the ODEO project on the implementation of the European agreement on equal opportunities
05/05/2009 - EDF: new agreement on social responsibility about to be signed
28/04/2009 - Veolia EWC concerned about proposals on shared services centers
27/04/2009 - Italian unions and ENEL sign CSR agreement
23/04/2009 - France: Continental didn't have to consult the EWC before the French staff representatives on closing the Clairoix site
23/04/2009 - EU : permanent adoption of the revision of the EWC directive
22/04/2009 - EU: skills and greens jobs on the 2009 agenda of the European Social Dialogue Committee in Electricity
16/04/2009 - Outcome of negotiations for a new agreement European Works Council Gdf Suez
16/04/2009 - SNOP: establishment of a European works council
16/04/2009 - Outcome of negotiations for a new agreement European Works Council Gdf Suez
10/04/2009 - EU: comprehensive note on the future EWC directive
10/04/2009 - GfK: analysis of the agreement on the involvement of employees in the European company
08/04/2009 - PPR: EWC rejects restructuring plan announced for France
06/04/2009 - ThyssenKrupp: the European Metalworkers' Federation joins the IG Metall's call for mobilization
06/04/2009 - HP-EDS: the EWCs of the two groups say no voluntary wage cut program
03/04/2009 - Dexia: ongoing negotiations on the implementation of the group's "transformation plan"
02/04/2009 - Safran: first plenary meeting for the EWC
02/04/2009 - Gdf Suez SNB makes good progress, final negotiations 7 April ?
01/04/2009 - Strong union presence is key at UPS
01/04/2009 - MAN SE: analysis of the agreement on the involvement of workers in the future European company
26/03/2009 - Lennox Europe: establishment of a European works council
24/03/2009 - EDS job cuts - protest against restructuring, job cuts and salary freeze
24/03/2009 - ArcelorMittal - action against job cuts
24/03/2009 - Bosch European action day
24/03/2009 - No EWC for Sanoma?
18/03/2009 - France Telecom: final step for the creation of France Telecom's global works council
17/03/2009 - General Motors: European governments commit to cooperate to save the European branch of the American manufacturer
16/03/2009 - Tesa: agreement on employee representation in the future European company
09/03/2009 - New round of negotiations foreseen on EWC agreement
03/03/2009 - General Motors Europe: European mobilization to save Opel and Saab
02/03/2009 - GDF/SUEZ GROUP EUROPEAN WORKS COUNCIL AGREES IN-DEPTH STUDY ON EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY
26/02/2009 - Opel, Vauxhall and SAAB Action day shows that concerted action is the key
26/02/2009 - EON EWC considers Performance to Win and Savings
26/02/2009 - Last stretch for the negotiations on new agreement Gdf-Suez
25/02/2009 - Philips: small impact of the EWC on restructurings
24/02/2009 - Pressemitteilung OPEL EBR: Aufruf zum Europäischen Aktionstag
24/02/2009 - EU: Parliament demands better application of the directive on the information and consultation of workers
23/02/2009 - Faber Castell: revised international framework agreement
20/02/2009 - General Motors Europe: toward the creation of an independent European structure?
19/02/2009 - EMF project GMEECO II finalised under dramatic circumstances
13/02/2009 - Renault: EWC expresses solidarity with Spanish workers
13/02/2009 - Whikhahn: international framework agreement
12/02/2009 - Solidarity with Spanish Renault workers’ demonstration in Paris
12/02/2009 - Areva: evaluation of the European project on the development of social dialogue via the framework agreement on equal opportunities
11/02/2009 - Alcoa EWC report
11/02/2009 - EU: calls for proposals to support social dialogue published
10/02/2009 - ArcelorMittal Action Day Today! “Mittal’s gain: Workers’ pain”
10/02/2009 - France: the 4-year term of the representative of a EWC established without an agreement cannot be questioned with subsequent elections
04/02/2009 - EU: the Parliament's Employment Committee adopted the own-initiative report on the transposition of the directive on information and consultation
04/02/2009 - EU: report points to the major role of social dialogue to carry the Lisbon Strategy through
02/02/2009 - HP-EDS: employees still mobilized to try and bring the two EWCs closer
02/02/2009 - Dexia: EWC given priority in the information-consultation process of the announced restructuring
30/01/2009 - EU: interview of Martin Warren, Head of Employment Law, Eversheds LLP UK, about the EWC recast Directive
26/01/2009 - EADS: EWC agreement revised based on the new EWC directive
21/01/2009 - Rio Tinto anounces 2,000 job cuts
19/01/2009 - ArcelorMittal: the EWC monitors local bargaining for voluntary leaves
15/01/2009 - General Motors Europe: agreement with the EWC to reduce working time and avoid collective redundancies
09/01/2009 - Air France-KLM: interview with Gehan Colliander, former general secretary of the European works council
09/01/2009 - Great Britain: ACAS launches consultation to make improve the representation of workers
08/01/2009 - Unicredit: the bank embarks on vocational training
08/01/2009 - BNP Paribas/Fortis: cooperation between the two groups' EWCs and unions
07/01/2009 - SNB Agbar meets – scope and information and consultation on the agenda
06/01/2009 - EU: the European Commission evaluates its actions on restructurings
16/12/2008 - EU: the European Parliament adopted the recast EWC directive
12/12/2008 - EU: the recast EWC directive will most certainly be permanently adopted next week
08/12/2008 - Unions and ENEL sign EWC agreement: Let’s start kicking...
08/12/2008 - EU: Parliament and Council reach a compromise on the recast of the EWC directive
02/12/2008 - Solvay: the management and EWC sign a charter on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility
02/12/2008 - EU: the French presidency stays on track for the permanent adoption of the recast of the EWC directive by the end of the year
02/12/2008 - Solvay: the management and EWC sign a charter on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility
01/12/2008 - Commission publishes Consultation document on the revision of the European Works Council Directive
01/12/2008 - European Works Council GdF Suez gives negative opinion on the merger of Energy Services
01/12/2008 - EPSU Legal Fund for EWCs
27/11/2008 - Great Britain: I&C implementation within large and medium-sized companies, BERR Update
25/11/2008 - Enel: agreement on the establishment of a European works council
21/11/2008 - GDF-Suez: EWC in favor of the wage increase
20/11/2008 - EU: the European Parliament is preparing a report on information and consultation
20/11/2008 - EU: analysis of the report adopted by the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on the recast of the EWC directive
18/11/2008 - EU: the Committee on Employment of the European Parliament made major amendments to the draft revision of the EWC directive
14/11/2008 - EU: UNI Europa Graphical adopts a procedure to bargain for transnational agreements
12/11/2008 - Italian energy company ENEL and unions reach agreement on European Works Council
12/11/2008 - Italian energy company ENEL and unions reach agreement on European Works Council
11/11/2008 - Freudenberg: the German group is revising its global framework agreement
07/11/2008 - European trade unions act against compulsory redundancies and the cutback of benefits at HP and EDS
07/11/2008 - EDF: European trade unions at the EWC want a wage increase
05/11/2008 - Club Med: the group is ready to sign a global framework agreement
05/11/2008 - Club Med: the group is ready to sign a global framework agreement
04/11/2008 - Unilever: the EFFAT condemns the closing of the Frigo SU site in Barcelona
29/10/2008 - Spanish and UK unions meet to consider EWC for SGAB
28/10/2008 - PPR: two European charters on the employment of disabled people and seniors
27/10/2008 - BNP Paribas/Fortis: meeting of the EWCs of the two financial groups
24/10/2008 - The Suez EWC adopted its opinion on the Merger of the Services activities during its debriefing meeting 24 October
24/10/2008 - The Suez EWC adopted its opinion on the Merger of the Services activities during its debriefing meeting 24 October
23/10/2008 - Respect Social Partner Agreement on EWC Directive say EPSU Coordinators
23/10/2008 - Germany: the Employment Minister advocates a quick adoption of the draft revision of the EWC directive
21/10/2008 - Italy: the national union meeting of the Fiat group approved the platform to negotiate the company agreement
21/10/2008 - HP-EDS: the trade union coordination calls for a European Action Day
21/10/2008 - Italy: the national union meeting of the Fiat group approved the platform to negotiate the company agreement
20/10/2008 - EU: the possibility of the adoption of the recast EWC directive by the end of the year is increasingly likely
20/10/2008 - Imperial Tobacco Group: union coordination against the restructuring plan
17/10/2008 - Defending jobs in Hewlett Packard-EDS merger
16/10/2008 - PFW Aerospace: a European works council for a former Airbus subsidiary
15/10/2008 - Wabco: establishment of a European works council
14/10/2008 - Germany: chemistry social partners launch the establishment of an agreement on demography in undertakings
09/10/2008 - First meeting of negotiating delegation for an EWC agreement in Gdf-Suez
08/10/2008 - France: the Supreme Court renders two rulings on restructurings in transnational groups
07/10/2008 - crisis in Fortis: transfer of majority interest in Belgian Banking and Insurance activities to BNP Paribas
06/10/2008 - crisis in Fortis: agreement with Dutch government
03/10/2008 - EU : EU ministers promises to speed up the revision of the EWC Directive
02/10/2008 - EU: the European Commission chooses to postpone the revision of the directive on the involvement of employees in the European Company
02/10/2008 - GeoPost: agreement for the establishment of a European works council
02/10/2008 - Valeo: the EWC organized transnational collective action
01/10/2008 - EU: UNI-Finance asked financial groups to request extraordinary EWC meetings
01/10/2008 - Workers in SITA consider the future of waste in GdF-Suez
26/09/2008 - Job cuts in Hewlett Packard and EDS: a worrying signal for the company's sustainable development
24/09/2008 - Saint-Gobain: additional agreement to the agreement establishing the EWC
16/09/2008 - Mobilisation 18th September against the creation of the subsidiary AEROLIA
16/09/2008 - Gaz de France Suez: European representatives meet to improve GDF's EWC agreement
12/09/2008 - EU: European managers propose amendments to the EWC "recast" directive
11/09/2008 - Companies: benefits and disadvantages of EWCs
10/09/2008 - Companies : actual costs of EWCs
05/09/2008 - BNP-Paribas: amendment to the EWC agreement
04/09/2008 - First meeting of the Secretariats of the EWCs of Suez and Gaz de France
03/09/2008 - EU: MEPs are discussing the "social package" of the European Commission
02/09/2008 - EU: the ETUC gives a trade union Memorandum to the French Presidency of the EU
01/09/2008 - Areva: action program to apply the European agreement on equal opportunities
29/08/2008 - EU: the ETUC and BusinessEurope reached a joint advice on the revision of the EWC directive
26/08/2008 - Thomson: the EWC wants to be consulted on a transnational restructuring
25/07/2008 - Tesco: the union confederation UNI launches a global union alliance
23/07/2008 - PSA Peugeot-Citroen: extension of the strategic joint committee in charge of the GPEC to non-French members
22/07/2008 - Safran: establishment of a EWC after the Snecma-Sagem merger
18/07/2008 - Siemens: organization of a European demonstration against job cuts
17/07/2008 - Trade unions announce European-wide Action against Siemens’ AG job cuts
16/07/2008 - EU: the European social partners expressed their point of view concerning the ongoing files
14/07/2008 - Dexia to become a European Company
10/07/2008 - Germany: the revision of the EWC directive arouses controversy
09/07/2008 - Interseroh: the German group chooses to become a European Company
07/07/2008 - Germany : some of Siemens' works councils prevent staff advancement until further details concerning the restructuring plan
04/07/2008 - Gaz de France: CSR agreement for the European companies of the group
04/07/2008 - EU: towards a renewed social agenda
03/07/2008 - EU: an expert group to follow the development of transnational negotiation
02/07/2008 - EU: launching of the revision of the EWC directive
01/07/2008 - Klöckner & Co: the German group turns into a European Company
01/07/2008 - EU: social priorities of the French presidency
01/07/2008 - Siemens to cut 17.000 jobs worldwide
26/06/2008 - German video from the ZDF Mediathek about the closure of Nokia Bochum
24/06/2008 - Italcementi: international framework agreement
24/06/2008 - International: building up trade union and EWC networks in the building sector
23/06/2008 - Cegelec: EWC and management agree on a meeting agenda
18/06/2008 - France Telecom: the EWC holds a plenary meeting in Cairo
17/06/2008 - EU : the Twenty-Seven try to curb the crisis after Ireland's 'no' to the Lisbon Treaty
16/06/2008 - Video clips from the EWC conference 9-10 June
16/06/2008 - AXA: one-week training for EWC members
16/06/2008 - Knauf Interfer signs SE Works Councils agreement on 8 April 2008
16/06/2008 - Klöckner & Co SE signs SE Works Council agreement in June 2008
13/06/2008 - Germany: last meeting of Nokia-Bochum's EWC to inform employees about the social plan
12/06/2008 - Club Med: the EWC secretary's reaction to the transfers of two units
11/06/2008 - Groupama: amendment to the EWC agreement to take in new members
09/06/2008 - One million workers in EWCs say to Commission: Act now on Revision of Directive
05/06/2008 - Suez Bureau meets: merger and implementation of agreements on the agenda
02/06/2008 - Veolia European Work Council says to Commission: Revise Directive
30/05/2008 - Thales : renewal of agreement on European Works Council
29/05/2008 - Rio Tinto-Alcan: staff representatives turn to European institutions
27/05/2008 - Sanofi-Aventis: the EMCEF still rejects the agreement on the European negotiation body
23/05/2008 - EU: analysis of the preliminary draft revision of the EWC directive
21/05/2008 - Gaz de France: agreement on social responsibility
20/05/2008 - BP: agreement with the EWC on information and consultation within the framework of relocation
16/05/2008 - West Pharmaceutical Services: agreement for the establishment of a EWC
14/05/2008 - EU: the ETUC refuses to bargain for the revision of the EWC directive again
13/05/2008 - NEX: establishment of international union coordination
05/05/2008 - Bouygues: creation of a new EWC
02/05/2008 - Unicredit : the EWC sets up two commissions on training and equal opportunities
30/04/2008 - EU : creation of a legal assistance fund for EWCs
30/04/2008 - Crédit Agricole : interview with Pascal Fesquet (CFDT), spokesman of the special negotiations body
25/04/2008 - Rhodia: the international framework on CSR renewed
24/04/2008 - 24/4/2008: hyperlinks to trade union websites are now clickable wherever a link to the ewc database is available. To see an example, click "more"
24/04/2008 - Credit Agricole: interview with Marie-Christine Dumonal, group HR Director and Bernard Philippe, DDG in charge of HR at the FNCA
22/04/2008 - EPSU Executive approves rules for use of EPSU EWC legal fund
22/04/2008 - Dexia: European agreement on the social consequences of sellings
15/04/2008 - Nokia: Finnish unions call for an international framework agreement
14/04/2008 - EU: the European Trade Union Confederation refuses to bargain for the revision of the EWC Directive
11/04/2008 - Saint-Gobain: the EWC defends the group's social model
11/04/2008 - Michelin: amendment to the agreement on the EWC
10/04/2008 - Freundenberg Group: the EWC wants to become a driving force in social policy with its "health map making" plan
09/04/2008 - Schaeffler Group: the German equipment manufacturer gets an EWC
08/04/2008 - Great Britain: enforcement of the law on the information and consultation of employees in undertakings with more than 50 employees
03/04/2008 - EU: European social partners to negotiate the revision of the EWC directive
28/03/2008 - France: the Supreme Court judges Bouygues' anticipation agreement "lapse"
28/03/2008 - Fresenius SE EWC meets
28/03/2008 - Suez and trade unions finalise agreement on social guarantees in case of merger
27/03/2008 - France: the Supreme Court extends accountants' power in a European group
26/03/2008 - Nalco: agreement for the establishment of a European Works Council
19/03/2008 - Panasonic: EWC agreement renewed
19/03/2008 - Gaz de France: management commitments on social guaranties after merger with Suez
18/03/2008 - EU: towards negotiations on access to employment for disadvantaged groups
17/03/2008 - Gaz de France: the fate of GDF and Suez's EWCs after the merger
13/03/2008 - Gaz de France: EWC says no to merger with Suez and takes cognizance of the social guaranties presented by the management
13/03/2008 - EWC Gaz de France negative opinion on merger; agrees social guarantees
11/03/2008 - EWC meets again 11 March 2008
10/03/2008 - Suez union groups discusses merger, social guaranties, profit-sharing…
01/03/2008 - The Bureau of Gas de France, 1 March, Brussels
26/02/2008 - Rio Tinto Alcan: Alcan's EWC wants a guarantee fund for restructurings
25/02/2008 - Air France KLM: social and ethical charter signed
22/02/2008 - Danske Bank Group: agreement for the creation of a European Works Council
20/02/2008 - EU: the EU's future French presidency wants to "give a fresh impetus to social Europe"
20/02/2008 - Generali: the insurance group consolidates the EWC
20/02/2008 - EU: the European Commission reveals the consultation document on the revision of the EWCs directive
15/02/2008 - EU : dealings for negotiation on the revision of the directive on European works councils
14/02/2008 - France: administrators must get the European Commission's statement of objections on a merger project
08/02/2008 - Germany: the conflict between Porsche SE and Volkswagen's EWC on staff representation still on
07/02/2008 - Michelin: amendment clause to the EWC agreement
06/02/2008 - Negotiations took off on EWC agreement in ENEL
06/02/2008 - Gaz de France: the EWC supports the revision of the 1994 directive
05/02/2008 - Credit Agricole: agreement for the establishment of a European works council
05/02/2008 - BASF SE : agreement on the involvement of employees in BASF SE
31/01/2008 - Nokia: EMF to investigate on the management's respect of the procedure of information and consultation of workers
30/01/2008 - Disconnected workers at Nokia declare lack of faith in their company
30/01/2008 - EMF press conference on relocation of Nokia
28/01/2008 - Sanofi-Aventis: EMCEF needs time to sign the draft agreement on the creation of a European negotiation body
28/01/2008 - Unions discuss establishing EWCs in new companies
25/01/2008 - Gaz de France: EWC threatens to sue management again
24/01/2008 - France : lessons from the Court of Cassation's decision in the GDF case
22/01/2008 - French Supreme Court judgement in Gaz de France's appeal
22/01/2008 - Gas de France EWC also wins appeal over information and consultation rights
22/01/2008 - Germany: the government wants to save a part of the "Volkswagen" law
22/01/2008 - Germany: IG Metall and Nokia's WC to fight
18/01/2008 - France: EWCs must be totally consulted on mergers before the company's board meets
17/01/2008 - Nokia: the EMF denounced violations of the directive on EWCs
14/01/2008 - EWC of GdF adopts 5 resolutions on merger with Suez: more information and time needed
11/01/2008 - Aguas de Barcelona enters into EWC negotiations
11/01/2008 - Interseroh and Klöckner plan to convert into SE
11/01/2008 - Telefónica renews its framework agreement
11/01/2008 - EU : a study on European works councils
10/01/2008 - Suez-Gaz de France: update of the information-consultation process for the merger
09/01/2008 - EU: EWCs calling to the Commission's attention about the content of the future amended directive on EWCs
08/01/2008 - Suez EWC expresses its opinion on the merger with Gaz de France
20/12/2007 - Sanofi-Aventis : final stretch to the creation of a European negotiation body
19/12/2007 - CPI: agreement on the creation of a EWC
13/12/2007 - EU: the EMF published a comparative note on national legislations about setting up special negotiating bodies
10/12/2007 - International: the Building and Wood Workers' International developed a new model of international framework agreements
10/12/2007 - International: the Building and Wood Workers' International developed a new model of international framework agreements
07/12/2007 - EU: European social partners to be consulted on the amendment of the directive on EWCs
04/12/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent plans redundancies
03/12/2007 - Alcan-Rio Tinto: the EWC wants a fund to support employees from sold entities and announces actions
30/11/2007 - Germany: skilled workforce shortage slowing down outsourcing at Nokia Siemens Network
28/11/2007 - EU: European Commission dedicated a "restructuring" forum on adaptation of SMEs to change
27/11/2007 - Vinci: the public works group organised a seminar on diversity with its EWC
27/11/2007 - Unions is Spanish company Agbar meet to set up EWC
26/11/2007 - BASF: agreement on workers' involvement in the future European Company
23/11/2007 - Italy: Pirelli Tyre signed a framework agreement with unions in preparation for the creation of its innovative pole in the Turin region
22/11/2007 - Siemens: staff representatives want a "global advisory committee" and a global framework agreement
22/11/2007 - EADS: information and consultation procedure for relocations outside the EU
21/11/2007 - EADS: EWC gets code of conduct in terms of confidentiality
20/11/2007 - Areva: implementation of agreement on equal opportunities, interview with Maureen Kearney
20/11/2007 - RR Donnelley: UNI Global asks for a global framework agreement
19/11/2007 - Areva: the European Commission to fund a plan to "implement" the European agreement on equal opportunities
19/11/2007 - Areva: implementation of the agreement on equal opportunities, interview with Laure Klock
15/11/2007 - EU: EWC creations and negotiations in the building sector
14/11/2007 - Club Méditerranée: EWC wants better information-consultation
13/11/2007 - Extra-ordinary meeting of the Suez EWC
31/10/2007 - Gaz de France: the EWC demands a comprehensive information-consultation procedure
31/10/2007 - Germany: Volkswagen and Porsche's EWCs want to settle their conflict
27/10/2007 - EWC GdF not satisfied with information and demands more time
26/10/2007 - Volkswagen-Porsche SE: Volkswagen's EWC lost its case against Porsche
23/10/2007 - EU : "restructuring" forum dedicated to the automobile sector
19/10/2007 - EU: European partnership for the anticipation of change in the automotive sector
17/10/2007 - EU Automotive Restructuring Forum
16/10/2007 - Alcan European Works Council press release: "Rio Tinto management refuses to provide information to the EWC"
16/10/2007 - Netherlands : interview with Lucas Vermaat, representative of the FNV union for Unilever
09/10/2007 - Alcan-Rio Tinto: Alcan's EWC disappointed in Rio Tinto's leaders hearing
09/10/2007 - Unilever: European unions are calling for mobilization to protest against the group's restructuring
05/10/2007 - Total: first European seminar on industrial security
04/10/2007 - EVN: the Austrian group set up a EWC
04/10/2007 - Alcan: between disappointment and revolt, the EWC is getting ready for Rio Tinto's takeover
02/10/2007 - EU: towards a new consultation of social partners on the revision of the EWC directive
02/10/2007 - EU: European support for the creation of EWCs in four Austrian financial businesses
01/10/2007 - AXA: European funds for training of the EWC's members
01/10/2007 - EWC of Health Care company CAPIO meets first time
01/10/2007 - Inditex: the Spanish group signed a "trail-blazing" framework agreement with the ITGLWF
28/09/2007 - Crédit Agricole: negotiation on the establishment of a European works council
28/09/2007 - Crédit Agricole: negotiation on the establishment of a European works council
27/09/2007 - Unilever: European trade unions mobilized against the Dutch group's restructuring
25/09/2007 - Volkswagen-Porsche EC: Volkswagen's central WC is trying to block the creation of the Porsche Holding EC through a summary proceeding
20/09/2007 - Arcelor-Mittal: extension of the world framework agreement, creation of an international works council and adoption of a joint health-security program
19/09/2007 - Hager Group EC: 27 countries will be represented in the European Company's future works council
19/09/2007 - Austrian EVN agrees European Works Council with Macedonian representation
19/09/2007 - Austrian EVN agrees European Works Council with Macedonian representation
13/09/2007 - GDF: EWC and management agreed to restart the information and consultation procedure on the merger with Suez from the beginning
13/09/2007 - EWC GdF calls for renewed information and consultation on new project merger with Suez
12/09/2007 - Alcan-Rio Tinto: trade unions organizations met with the representatives of the French Minister of Economy
11/09/2007 - Atos Origin: interview with Jean-Pierre Fieux, the group's former human resources manager
06/09/2007 - No to disinvestment of the environment division of Suez
04/09/2007 - Press release EWC Suez on merger with GdF
04/09/2007 - Press release EWC Suez on merger with GdF
02/09/2007 - Desinvestment of Suez Environment or not?
22/08/2007 - Unilever: the EWC is opposed to the cut of 20.000 jobs
20/08/2007 - Linde AG: negociation of a new European works council
27/07/2007 - Alcan: the EWC was consulted on the friendly takeover plan of the Rio Tinto group
23/07/2007 - Schneider Electric: interview with Jean-François Pilliard, strategic resources and organization general manager
17/07/2007 - Suez: interview with Muriel Morin, manager of indusrial relations at Suez group
16/07/2007 - Schneider Electric: adoption of an agreement on changes' conduct
13/07/2007 - Suez: global agreement on the promotion of equality and diversity
13/07/2007 - Suez: world and triennial agreement on financial involvement
12/07/2007 - Danone: a European expertise on the sites threatened by the sale of the biscuit factory to Kraft
11/07/2007 - EU: unions from the cement sector ask for an efficient enforcement of international framework agreements
10/07/2007 - Axa: the EWC wants to follow closely the social content of SNS Real's resumption of activity in the Netherlands
09/07/2007 - Italy: to unions' satisfaction, Michelin committed to an investment plan
04/07/2007 - Cytec : the American chemistry group established an EWC
04/07/2007 - Brunel: an international framework agreement on fundamental labour standards was signed
03/07/2007 - Rheinmetall: unions denounced the management's refusal to take responsibility for an international union representatives' meeting
03/07/2007 - Rheinmetall: unions denounced the management's refusal to take responsibility for an international union representatives' meeting
20/06/2007 - Atos Origin: the negotiation of the agreement on the European works council (EWC) completed
20/06/2007 - EADS: interview with Frédéric Agenet, industrial relations' manager
20/06/2007 - Profit sharing, equality and diversity, employment and qualifications on Suez EWC agenda
19/06/2007 - Nokia Siemens Network: management agrees to negotiate the creation of a European Works Council (EWC)
13/06/2007 - EWC of EDF asks opening of negotiations to have fair distribution of profits
12/06/2007 - ArcelorMittal: the agreement on the European WC is settled
12/06/2007 - ArcelorMittal : interview with André Leclercq, vice president Employee Relations Europe
08/06/2007 - CPI: the publishing group is ending the negotiation concerning the establishment of a European WC
06/06/2007 - EU: the union federation UNI-Finance is elaborating a pattern for a world framework agreement
01/06/2007 - Alcan: interview with Patrick Reinbold, secretary of Alcan's European WC
30/05/2007 - Groupama: a social reporting at the European level was launched
29/05/2007 - Renault: the means of group's committee are strengthened
24/05/2007 - EMF shocked by Nexans' medieval approach to industrial relations after Huizingen incident
22/05/2007 - Delphi: the European federation of metalworkers is organizing a new action day
21/05/2007 - Tallink: unions are asking for the creation of a European work's council
17/05/2007 - Towards an European Works Council in Italian energy company ENEL
15/05/2007 - Arkema: the agreement on the European WC is almost signed
15/05/2007 - Sanofi-Aventis: towards the establishment of a European social dialogue body
11/05/2007 - EU: the European Parliament adopted a resolution in favour of the strengthening of workers' rights to information and consultation
11/05/2007 - Nokia Siemens Networks: the European Metalworkers' Federation denounced the lack of consultation at the European level
11/05/2007 - Quebecor World: the European WC is calling for an intensification of investments in Europe
09/05/2007 - EADS: agreement to transform the European WC into a world group committee
07/05/2007 - EU: the European Parliament urges the Commission to revise the EWC Directive
07/05/2007 - British Airways: Brussels' Labour court decision (in english) on a case between the EWC and the company
04/05/2007 - Oracle: negotiations on the establishment of a European WC failed
02/05/2007 - General Motors: the EMF and the European work's council are threatening to block negotiations in the entire group as long as the Anvers factory question has not been settled
02/05/2007 - Alcatel-lucent : the Paris' first instance court is not opposed to the continuation of the information-consultation procedure
24/04/2007 - Arcelor Mittal: the steel group is going to sign an agreement on the new European works council
23/04/2007 - Steady progress with European Works Councils in EPSU areas
23/04/2007 - Steady progress with European Works Councils in EPSU areas
23/04/2007 - Porsche: the car manufacturer will adopt the European Company (EC) status in June 2007
20/04/2007 - Royal BAM : an international framework agreement on workers' rights signed
19/04/2007 - Closing of negotiations to set up a EWC at Arcelor Mittal
19/04/2007 - GME and the EWC agreed on European key points for the future Astra production
19/04/2007 - Vinci : launching of a discrimination and equal opportunity audit
19/04/2007 - Coca-Cola Enterprise: the European WC denounces the lack of information following the announcement of a restructuring
18/04/2007 - Delphi: the European WC is adopting a resolution on the fate of the Puerto Real Spanish site
17/04/2007 - Delphi EWC warns
13/04/2007 - CEZ : first European works council agreement signed under the Czech law
12/04/2007 - RWE Energy: European agreement on management of restructuring operations
05/04/2007 - Bauer Verlagsgruppe: the German publishing group established a European works council
04/04/2007 - Michelin: the European works council get the right to be informed and consulted on a restructuring plan
04/04/2007 - Air France-KLM: the European works council will be consulted on the group's organization principles
03/04/2007 - Czech Energy Company CEZ concludes European Works Council agreement
03/04/2007 - Arcelor-Mittal: the steel group is organizing an internal seminar with the ILO on the international framework agreements' legal aspects
02/04/2007 - Strabag: the European Works Council is opening to Serbian employee representatives
30/03/2007 - Total: a European-wide agreement on the development of small and medium-sized companies was signed
30/03/2007 - Total: a European-wide agreement on the development of small and medium-sized companies was signed
30/03/2007 - Total: a European-wide agreement on the development of small and medium-sized companies was signed
28/03/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent: hearing on April 3, 2007 on the EWCs information-consultation
23/03/2007 - Arcelor-Mittal : the negotiation on the upcoming European WC is going on
20/03/2007 - EU: As far as Vladimir Spidla is concerned, the European policy in terms of reorganization is lacking visibility
15/03/2007 - EMF meets in Cadiz – strong solidarity expressed with Delphi employees
15/03/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent employees demonstrate
15/03/2007 - EADS: Airbus' EWC is denouncing the management's lack of will to discuss the Power 8 plan
15/03/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent : The European Metalworkers' Federation call on the employees to gather in Paris
14/03/2007 - Axa: the insurance group is preparing a global plan of free shares for employees
09/03/2007 - BASF: the group is getting ready to adopt the "European company" status
08/03/2007 - Germany : the employees committee of Schering threatens boycott of the firm's integration into the Bayer group
07/03/2007 - Skepticism on ownership unbundling at EPSU Energy Conference: think twice before you act.
07/03/2007 - Sanofi-Aventis: towards European social negotiations
02/03/2007 - Airbus: an overview of the national reactions after the presentation of the Power 8 plan
01/03/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent: the European Works Council obtained to postpone the information and consultation procedure
23/02/2007 - Thomson: the European Works Council could bring an action to court for non-respect of the information and consultation procedure
21/02/2007 - UniCredit: analysis of the agreement on the setting of the European Work's Council
16/02/2007 - UniCredit: creation of a European WC after the fusion with the bank HVB
14/02/2007 - Trade union representatives express concerns at Nokia Siemens Networks secretive attitude
14/02/2007 - Netherlands: Alcatel-Lucent's unions are thinking of calling for strike
14/02/2007 - France : court ruling in summary proceedings on precedence of European works council in information/consultation procedure
14/02/2007 - Thales : the European works council meets the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission
12/02/2007 - Bonduelle: the agreement on the setting of a European works council
09/02/2007 - EADS: the information and consultation procedure from Airbus' reorganization plan
09/02/2007 - British Airways: Brussels' Labour court forced the company to refer to its European Work's Council
09/02/2007 - Generali : the Italian insurance company adopted a "European social charter"
07/02/2007 - EADS : a first step towards a worldwide works council
05/02/2007 - Areva: agreement on equal opportunities, discussion with Marianne Naud
02/02/2007 - BNP-Paribas: meeting of extraordinary European WC devoted to the repurchase of Italian bank BNL
02/02/2007 - Thomson: European work's council complains about absence of information-consultation during the closing of two Technicolor sites
01/02/2007 - National Australia Group: signature of a international framework agreement
30/01/2007 - VolkerWessels: signature of an international framework agreement on workers' rights
25/01/2007 - EU: publication of a report on the experience of European work's councils in the new Member States
24/01/2007 - Axa: the European WC integrates the representatives of Winterthur
24/01/2007 - Bureau of Suez takes critical look at special bonus for headquarter workers
22/01/2007 - Great Britain: a review on practices as regards workplace representatives
16/01/2007 - Volkswagen: summary of the information and consultation procedure during the restructuring at Forest factory
15/01/2007 - France Telecom : worldwide agreement on social rights ; interview with Laurent Zylberberg
09/01/2007 - GeoPost: launching of a negotiation to set up a European work's council
02/01/2007 - Germany: Opel GmbH to pay retrospectively for extra company pension to 20.000 pensioners
21/12/2006 - France Telecom : worldwide agreement on social rights ; interview with Laurent Zylberberg
15/12/2006 - Areva: an agreement on equal opportunities; interview with Bart Samyn
11/12/2006 - Strabag SE : difficult beginning for the agreement on workers' representation in the SE
05/12/2006 - PSA Peugeot-Citroën : international agreement on social responsibility is ratified
04/12/2006 - MAN Diesel SE: the agreement on workers' representation in the European company broadly designed on the German co-management model
01/12/2006 - Capio: first European WC in the health care sector
30/11/2006 - AMCOR: EWC sets new priorities and wants to become global
29/11/2006 - Quebecor : towards an extraordinary meeting of the European Works council on restructurings in Europe
28/11/2006 - Areva: towards the signature of a European agreement on equal opportunities
28/11/2006 - Volkswagen : management could decide to produce Audis in Brussels, but only in 2009
27/11/2006 - Gaz de France : Paris Court of appeal confirms the European works council’s role
27/11/2006 - EMF Trade Union Coordination Group on VW confirms European solidarity and willingness to find European solutions
22/11/2006 - European Works Council wins legal battle in merger Suez-Gaz de France
22/11/2006 - Indesit : meeting between management and IMF on the implementation of the International Framework Agreement (IFA)
22/11/2006 - Indesit : meeting between management and IMF on the implementation of the International Framework Agreement (IFA)
21/11/2006 - GDF: court due to rule over EWC/management dispute
07/11/2006 - Suez negotiating group meets again
03/11/2006 - Extra-ordinary meeting of the EWC of Suez on merger
26/10/2006 - EU : the European Commission organizes its second seminary on transnational collective negotiation
12/10/2006 - EADS: information will first go through the European works council
11/10/2006 - Veolia Environment: first meeting of the European WC
10/10/2006 - Axa : debates over the fate of Winterthur's European WC
06/10/2006 - Polish utility unions standing up to multinational companies
06/10/2006 - EU: the European Metalworkers' Federation publishes a report on the future challenges for the European car industry
04/10/2006 - First health care company starts negotiations on EWC
28/09/2006 - VWR International: analysis of the agreement on the new European works council
28/09/2006 - Rhodia : European Works Council is against outsourcing of human resources department
28/09/2006 - PSA: Spanish labour unions incredulous after management announces a revival plan
26/09/2006 - Arkema: negotiations on the creation of a European work's council
26/09/2006 - Smithfield: towards a European works council after the takeover of Sara Lee Food Europe
22/09/2006 - First meeting European Works Council of Veolia Environment
21/09/2006 - First meeting European Works Council of Veolia Environment
21/09/2006 - European Economic and Social Committee pushes to change the directive on European work's councils
19/09/2006 - New European Works Council: ENEL
12/09/2006 - The IMF examines its policy of international collective negotiation
11/09/2006 - Arcelor-Mittal: discussions on the future of the European Work's council
07/09/2006 - 2nd meeting negotiating group Suez
24/08/2006 - Negotiations start in Suez: employment policy main issue of first meeting
03/08/2006 - Poland: a new law on the European Cooperative Society
27/06/2006 - First European Works Council in private health care company
25/06/2006 - First European Works Council in private health care company
23/06/2006 - DBA: the European works council will be informed of restructurings
21/06/2006 - SUEZ European Works Councils demands social guarantees before merger
21/06/2006 - SUEZ European Works Councils demands social guarantees before merger
04/06/2006 - DBA: meeting of the restricted committee of the EWC devoted to restructurings
22/05/2006 - Transnational negotiation: the European Commission opens the debate with European social partners
15/05/2006 - EMF Delphi Group ensures co-ordination in the face of Delphi restructuring
10/05/2006 - Out-sourcing a priority issue for European Works Councils, argue coordinators and EWC representatives
28/04/2006 - European trade union opposition to the closure of the PSA plant at Ryton
19/04/2006 - SEEurope counts 31 European companies created
07/04/2006 - Suez CEO commits to no forced redundancies in merger project
07/04/2006 - Suez CEO commits to no forced redundancies in merger project
03/04/2006 - The agreement on the European work's council of Transdev is signed by all trade-union organizations
31/03/2006 - Vinci: the world's number 1 construction group renews its European work's council
26/03/2006 - Gas de France European Works Council meets to consider merger with Suez
23/03/2006 - Gas de France European Works Council meets to consider merger with Suez
15/03/2006 - Suez/GDF merger under scrutiny of Suez European Works Council, 14 March 2006, Paris
01/03/2006 - PSA Peugeot-Citroën : international agreement on social responsibility is ratified
28/02/2006 - Extra-ordinary meeting of the Bureau of the EWC of Suez
01/02/2006 - Arcelor holds discussions at the EMF Secretariat
26/10/2005 - Suez negotiating group considers decent wages and profit-sharing
06/10/2005 - EPSU EWC Coordinators discuss European Company guideline
08/09/2005 - Bureau of the European Works Council Suez, 8 September 2005
22/06/2005 - Veolia SNB held last meeting on 21 & 22 June 2005: agreement for consultation
18/03/2005 - First European Works Council in municipal company
10/03/2005 - 2nd meeting of the Capio SNB
27/01/2005 - Improve Information and Consultation Rights for EWCs
12/01/2005 - EWC of EDF adopts critical position on company’s proposed industrial policies
17/12/2004 - SUEZ European Works Council Bureau meets, 15-16 December 2004
25/10/2004 - An EWC to improve working conditions in Veolia Environment
14/09/2004 - Negotiations for an EWC of Veolia Environment commence
02/09/2004 - Statement of EWC Suez on SITA ost
23/06/2004 - Suez EWC meets, 23 June 2004
07/06/2004 - Negotiations on the renewal of the Suez EWC agreement, 7 June 2004
09/05/2004 - Utility unions discuss coordination of collective bargaining
17/03/2004 - Extra ordinary meeting EDF deals with employment and meets protesting Polish workers, Warsaw, 17 March 2004
01/03/2004 - Veolia starts designation of representatives for SNB
04/02/2004 - Suez to revises agreement
01/01/2004 - EPSU/Ver.di Seminar on European Works Councils (EWC) in Eon
01/01/2004 - Collective Bargaining (EPSU Resolution)
01/01/2004 - Strengthening industrial relations tools for an enlarged Europe
12/10/2003 - European Water Industry: a background to a discussion on European Works Councils, 2003
18/03/2002 - EPSU European Works Council Coordinators Network
13/09/2001 - EPSU RESOLUTION on European Works Council Coordinators Network
Other documents
15/04/2013 - Valeo agreement on corporate social responsibility of July 2012
25/03/2013 - Global agreement between Codere and Uni-Global Union
04/02/2013 - Kraft Foods European Framework Agreement of 2007
24/01/2013 - Telenor/Uni Global union global agreement of 18/1/2013
24/01/2013 - Securitas/Uni Global Union/Transport global agreement of 18/10/2012
09/11/2012 - IndustriAll Europe and Uni Global establish HP European Alliance
29/11/2011 - Air France KLM Social Rights and Ethics Charter of 6/2008
29/11/2011 - Axa: the French insurance group is the first in the industry to sign a European agreement on the anticipation of changes
25/11/2011 - free overview graphs from the EWC database (November 2011)
30/11/2010 - Recticel - Code of Conduct temporary workers 5/2010
30/11/2010 - Health Safety and Environment on the workplace Charter European Workers Council ETEX Group S.A.
29/10/2010 - free graphs with statistics from the ewcdb.eu database now available in seven languages
05/07/2010 - Solvay - Charter on sustainable development and corporate social responsibility
05/07/2010 - Faber-Castell global agreement of 1/10/2008
05/07/2010 - Wilkhahn global agreement of 13/2/2009
05/07/2010 - FIAT International Framework Agreement of 8/10/2008
05/07/2010 - Pirelli Tyre International Framework Agreement (Italian only)
05/07/2010 - EADS global agreement of 26/7/2007
05/07/2010 - Robert Bosch Brakes div. global agreement of 27/1/2009
05/07/2010 - Agreement on EDF group corporate social responsibility of 25/1/2009
05/07/2010 - Total global agreement of 28/3/2007
02/03/2010 - Overview of facilities of enforcement of EWC rights across Europe
02/03/2010 - List of EWC bodies that have been replaced by another one
30/01/2010 - November 2009 update of free statistical graphs & tables on EWCs
02/10/2009 - Inditex and UNI Global Union sign global deal to guarantee workers’ rights
30/09/2009 - UniCredit joint declaration on equal opportunities and non-discrimination (14/5/2009)
28/09/2009 - Frauenthal Keramik Rules of Procedure of the EWC
27/09/2009 - Thales signs global agreement (11/6/2009)
25/09/2009 - Global Framework Agreement in Danske Bank (09/2008)
18/09/2009 - Lithuania - Law No. IX-2031 on European Works Council now available in English
18/09/2009 - Dell loses lawsuit in France (1/2009)
31/08/2009 - Aker's International Framework Agreement of 28/10/2008
27/02/2009 - Georg Fischer EWC rules of procedure
14/10/2008 - October update of free graphs available
27/06/2008 - IGMetall leaflet on the closure of the Bochum plant of Nokia
07/04/2008 - Thomas Cook: agreement for the establishment of a EWC
05/04/2008 - ETUC Infosheet about European Works Councils
05/04/2008 - ETUC second Infosheet about European Works Councils
24/01/2008 - Gaz de France - ruling of the Court in French
11/01/2008 - BWI guidelines for the conclusion of international framework agreements
11/01/2008 - new BWI model framework agreement
06/12/2007 - Schneider agreement on anticipation of change now available in 16 languages
06/12/2007 - Labour courts in the EU
07/11/2007 - International Framework Agreement for Umicore
05/11/2007 - International Framework Agreement between Inditex and the ITGLWF
21/10/2007 - Luxembourg's proposed transposition law of the EWC Directive
21/10/2007 - Circular of the Unilever EWC to all employees
Publications
30/03/2012 - Manual for European Workers' Representatives: 01- How to make your meetings more successful
06/03/2012 - Benchmarking Working Europe 2012
16/05/2011 - PaRL Newsletter Issue 3, May 2011 published by SDA
13/05/2011 - Hungarian trade union publishes info clip about EWCs
29/04/2011 - EU : interview of Romuald Jagodzinski, ETUI researcher and coordinator of the 2011 edition of Benchmarking Working Europe, the assessment carried out by the union institute on the EU 2020 Strategy
26/04/2011 - PaRL Newsletter Issue 2, March 2011 published by SDA
03/09/2010 - A Strange Case - Human Rights Watch report of 2/9/2010
28/06/2010 - EWCs: a trade union guide to Directive 2009/38/EC
31/03/2010 - The New EWC Directive 2009/38/EC
09/03/2010 - European Works Councils in complementary perspectives
12/02/2010 - Common guidelines for the negotiation of EWC agreements
01/10/2009 - European Works Council Estonia, April 2008, by Dr Merle Muda, in International Encyclopaedia of Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Kluwer Law
31/08/2009 - European and international framework agreements: Practical experiences and strategic approaches (Dublin Foundation)
14/05/2009 - The quest for an amended EWC Directive
01/05/2009 - Benchmarking Working Europe 2009
31/10/2008 - Benchmarking working Europe 2008
17/02/2008 - The European Company - Prospects for worker board-level participation in the enlarged EU
17/01/2008 - EWC Facts & Figures 2006
16/12/2007 - EMF handbook on restructuring
04/12/2007 - FNV Formaat launches EWC Newsletter
Links
20/03/2012 - European Commission database on transnational company agreements
29/11/2011 - FNV Bondgenoten - Network site for EWC members (in Dutch)
05/10/2010 - ewc-networking - an EWC portal in German or Italian for the regions of Tirol, Südtirol and Trentino
24/06/2010 - European Commission, DG Competition, Mergers
11/09/2009 - Solidarnosc web page on European Works Councils (in Polish)
11/09/2009 - FNV Formaat EWC Service (EWC newsletter in English and Dutch)
11/09/2009 - Ver.di EWC information, legislation, links (in German)
11/09/2009 - ETUC page on EWCs: campaigns, press releases, positions, fact sheets, resolutions, events, speeches
11/09/2009 - DGB collection of documents on EWCs (in German)
11/09/2009 - EMF Company policy page (including a link to the EMF EWC database - login and password needed)
11/09/2009 - Uni-Europa EWC and SE database
11/09/2009 - IG-BCE web page on EWCs (in German)
11/09/2009 - AK-Wien page on EWCs (in German)
11/09/2009 - Eurofound definition of European Works Councils
Revision of the EWC Directive
29/03/2011 - EWCs should get stronger influence (in Dutch only)
24/06/2010 - EU: ETUC and BusinessEurope's joint interpretation of some of the provisions of the new EWC directive
01/12/2009 - Collection of documents regarding the revision of the EWC Directive
27/08/2009 - Ver.Di presentation on the new EWC Directive
26/06/2009 - EWC Directive 2009/38/EC
26/06/2009 - European Works Councils: an assessment of their social welfare impact
26/06/2009 - Evaluation of the new EWC Directive (German only)
19/05/2009 - Eon EWC update
18/05/2009 - Revision of the EWC Directive and implications for negotiations
17/12/2008 - Joint advice by the Social Partners on the EWC "Recast" Directive
21/11/2008 - EPSU welcomes Revision of EWC Directive and urges speedy process
27/09/2008 - EC Impact Assessment report on the revision of the EWC directive
16/08/2008 - Overview of the revision process of EWC directive
16/08/2008 - Commission's proposal for revised Directive
03/07/2008 - Was darf ein europäischer Betriebsrat? article in Handelsblatt
05/06/2008 - Letter of the Ingersoll Rand EWC to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of the Veolia EWC to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of the E.ON EWC to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of the GKN Euroforum to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of a Polish works council of SKF to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of a local works council of Telect Polska Sp. Z o.o. to Commissioner Špidla
05/06/2008 - Letter of the Kimberly-Clark EWC to Commissioner Špidla
02/06/2008 - Press release on legislative proposal
31/05/2008 - List of literature relative to the Revision of the Directive on the Labourline website
21/05/2008 - news about the revision in EBR-newsletter of Ver.di and GPAdjp (in German)
21/05/2008 - EPSU, 24 April 2008: Legislate on Revision of EWC Directive now !
21/05/2008 - Špidla raises pressure on unions
21/05/2008 - Letter of local works council at GKN Driveline Poland to Commissioner V. Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of plant committee of "Solidarnosc" at GKN Poland to Commissioner V. Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of local works council of TRW to Commissioner V. Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of local workscouncil of Stadwerke Leipzig to Commissioner V. Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of local works council at Robert Bosch to Commissioner V. Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of Polish subsidiary of Robert Bosch to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of SCA European Works Council to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Delphi EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of Cooper Lighting and Safety EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of Covidien EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the CEZ EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Chesapeake EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Textron EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Lloyds TSB EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of theOMV EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Novartis EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Sappi EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - E-mail of the Cytec EWC to Commissioner Špidla
21/05/2008 - Letter of the Heineken EWC to Commissioner Špidla
20/05/2008 - Letter of a local works council at Electrolux Poland to Commissioner V. Špidla
20/05/2008 - Letter of the EWC in SCA to Commissioner V. Špidla
20/05/2008 - Letter of the EWC in Erste Bank to Commissioner Špidla
14/05/2008 - Unite urges Commissioner Špidla to present revision of EWC Directive by early June
08/05/2008 - Letter of ETUC to Commissioner Špidla
08/05/2008 - Letter of UNI-Europa to Commissioner Špidla
24/04/2008 - Legislate on Revision of EWC Directive now ! says 8 million Union Federation
11/04/2008 - 11/4/2008: letter of the ETUC to Commissioner Špidla
08/04/2008 - ETUC statement regarding the revision of the EWC Directive
04/04/2008 - EPSU supports revision of the EWC Directive and ETUC position
21/02/2008 - The ETUC welcomes the proposals of the Commission on the revision of the EWC directive
01/02/2008 - ETUF-TCL urges Commissioner Špidla to revise the EWC Directive
29/01/2008 - EWC of Gas de France demands revision of EWC Directive
18/01/2008 - Commissioner Špidla replies to EMF letter
18/01/2008 - Solidarnosc asks Commissioner Špidla to complete the revision of the Directive before end 2008
18/01/2008 - Commissioner Špidla's response to Securitas EWC
14/01/2008 - Italcementi EWC makes proposals for revision of EWC Directive
07/12/2007 - EPSU statement
07/12/2007 - Deutsche Bahn EWC urges Commissioner Spidla to revise EWC Directive
07/12/2007 - DGB urges EU Commission to revise EWC Directive
07/12/2007 - DGB to Bundesminister Müntefering: support the improvement of the EWC Directive!
07/12/2007 - European Metal Federation urges European Commission to review EWC Directive
07/12/2007 - ETUC welcomes Commission initiative on revision of European Works Council directive
07/12/2007 - UNI-Europa demands revision of EWC Directive without any further delay
07/12/2007 - Commissioner Špidla replies to ETUC letter
07/12/2007 - Alcatel-Lucent EWC asks for urgent revision of the EWC Directive
07/12/2007 - Unison asks for revision of the Directive
07/12/2007 - Securitas EWC Letter to Commissioner Spidla
07/12/2007 - Chemtura EWC requests revision of the EWC Directive
16/11/2007 - Vida urges Commission to complete revision of the EWC Directive
27/11/2006 - EU : European Metalworkers' Federation calls for greater EWC powers
