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A 115-euro wage increase, efforts to combat dumping – a practice that remains commonplace at subcontracting companies, the development of second-level collective bargaining, and the...

20 January 2020

Germany: ‘Auto Summit’ to prepare support and tools aimed at training and maintaining employment

On 15 January the Federal Chancellery hosted a summit meeting that focused on safeguarding employment in Germany’s auto industry. All the relevant actors in the sector attended the meeting and...

16 January 2020

Spain: national securities supervisory authority calls for greater gender parity on company management boards

Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CMNV) in charge of supervising Spain’s stock markets wants listed companies to have at least 40% female representation on their boards of...

16 January 2020

Great Britain: one out of every five employees its banned from discussing their salary with co-workers

On 15 January a survey by the trade union confederation the TUC revealed that 18% of UK employees have to uphold salary confidentiality clauses. Called ‘pay secrecy’ or...

16 January 2020

EU: European Commission presents initial initiatives for building a strong social Europe

Preserving the social market economy, a cornerstone of the EU, building upon it and maximizing current transformation processes (digital, environmental, demographic) in order to strengthen and...

15 January 2020

EU: an investment plan and a mechanism for the Just Transition to underpin the European Green Deal

On 14 January the European Commission presented its investment plan that will underpin its Green Deal (c.f. article No. 11541 on the EU Green Deal). Significant investment will be required for the...

15 January 2020

EU: the European Commission wants national minimum salaries that enable workers to live decently

While still candidate for the position of EU Commission President, and in a bid to secure European Socialist support for her candidacy, Ursula von der Leyen threw her support behind the concept of...

14 January 2020

United States: Labor Department restricts the notion of ‘joint-employer’

On 12 January 2020, the US Department of Labor (DOL) revealed fresh regulations that set out four factors to be used to determine joint-employer status as regards the responsibilities and...

14 January 2020

Italy: mixed results in 2019 for the citizens’ income policy

A flagship introduced by the first coalition government led by Giuseppe Conte, the so-called citizens’ income (see article n°10970), which was officially launched in April last year, has...

14 January 2020

Germany: IG Metall to prioritise job security in upcoming collective negotiations in metals sector

Roman Zitzelsberger, IG Metall’s chief in Baden-Württemberg, has earmarked job security as one of the trade union’s priorities ahead of collective negotiations set to kick off by 17 March in the...

13 January 2020

Business practices: how high-tech firm Thales is upping the pace of educational innovation and the ‘marketing’ of solutions that better meet the needs of professions and employees

More than 18 months ago Jean-Roch Houllier, director of educational innovation at the Thales Learning Hub, established a structure geared towards helping his company’s training system meet new...

13 January 2020

United States: telecoms union CWA targets tech and video game industries with its CODE (Campaign to Organize Digital Employees) campaign

The leadership of the Communications Workers of America, a large trade union that has a strong presence in the telecommunications industry, has decided to expand into the sectors of tech and video...

13 January 2020

India: how one hotel chain is leading the way to inclusion by employing workers with disabilities

India’s leading mid-range hotel chain, Lemon Tree is making the hiring of those with disabilities an integral part of its business model. Initially implemented in 2007, many hotels have are...

10 January 2020

Japan: ‘technical trainees’, a euphemism for exploited foreign manpower

In a country that has lost 11% of its active population in the space of 20 years, Japan remains reticent over the idea of opening its borders to long-term immigrant workers. Companies in need of...

10 January 2020

Finland: a new agreement for the technology, electronics, mechanical, and metallurgy industry sets the tone for negotiations across the other sectors

Following an agreement between the industry union (Teollisuusliitonet) and technology sector employers (Teknologiateollisuuteen), employees have secured a 3.3% salary increase distributed over 25...

9 January 2020

Great Britain: government seeks to calm concerns before the IR35 off-payroll reforms on disguised employment come into force

As of 06 April 2020, UK private sector medium and large businesses will be required to declare if their service providers have to pay the income taxes and social contributions that correspond to...

9 January 2020

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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers

Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...

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Block to slash workforce by nearly half

The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...

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