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Spain: Minimum wage to rise 4% on 01 January 2018
Spain’s government and social partners have agreed on a gradual rise in the inter-professional minimum monthly salary, which will rise from €707 over 14 months in 2017 to €736 over 14 months in...
21 December 2017
News update as of 20 December 2017
On the menu: In Great Britain labor tribunals are once again swamped with claims as legal fees are done away with for the second time, Belgium’s Labor Minister is looking to regulate email...
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20 December 2017
Germany: minimum wage, gender pay equality, pensions, some of the changes set for 01 January 2018
While Germany still waits for a government and with the SPD party, in a U-turn, now agreeing to enter into preliminary discussion’ to extend the former ruling conservative-social democrat grand...
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19 December 2017
Sweden: an agreement to better integrate migrants into the labor market
Trade unions and employers’ bodies finally secured an agreement in principle that will enable both the significant numbers of new entrants into the country (In 2015 Sweden welcomed almost 500,000...
19 December 2017
Germany: Opel, the Works Council, and IG Metall have signed a cost cutting agreement that avoids layoffs
On 15 December there was a sigh of relief as management at Opel, PSA’s recent summer purchase, secured a social agreement with representatives from the central works council committee, the Bochum...
18 December 2017
Ryanair: Irish airline ready to recognise pilot unions, amid rising pressure
Announced on 15 December, Ryanair’s surprising decision to U-turn and offer recognition of pilot unions is a reaction to an unprecedented social front of pilots from across Europe, who threatened...
18 December 2017
United States: National Labor Relations Board overturns rulings passed during Obama era
On Thursday 14th November, the National Labor Relations Board overturned a ruling on joint employer status passed in 2015. The new interpretation reduces the responsibility shouldered by large...
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18 December 2017
Great Britain: landmark decision against a company for sidestepping collective bargaining
The London Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) confirmed an earlier Sheffield based labor tribunal decision and has ordered UK subsidiary of the German electronics group Kostal to pay more than...
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14 December 2017
France: unemployment insurance reforms underway
On 13 December all the social partners met with the Labor Minister to discuss Emmanuel Macron’s sought after unemployment insurance reforms. On 14 December the Labor Minister is to deliver...
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14 December 2017
Portugal: Volkswagen’s AutoEuropa facility sets new working hours
Management at Volkswagen’s AutoEuropa automotive assembly plant, located in the city of Palmela, near Lisbon, Portugal, has announced that it intends to implement new working hours at the end of...
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12 December 2017
Switzerland: 8% unemployment set as the threshold for ‘indigenous’ recruitment priority
On 08 December, Switzerland’s Federal Parliament set as 8% the unemployment threshold rate above which Swiss employers will have to advertise vacant positions without any nationality partisanship...
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12 December 2017
UNI Global Union sets out groundbreaking principles in data collection protection and ethical artificial intelligence
On 11 December UNI Global Union released two documents, each containing a set of ten principles that aim to address how work-related data is managed. The union confederation stated, “Data...
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12 December 2017
Austria: new governmental coalition seeks to allow 12-hour working days
On Wednesday 6 December, the heads of the two political parties that will form Austria’s next government – Sebastian Kurz of the conservatives (ÖVP) and Hans-Christian Strache of the right-wing...
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11 December 2017
Brexit: questions remain on the rights of European and British expats after agreement between the United Kingdom and European Commission
“Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”. This wording, contained in the 15-page document detailing the agreement between the European Commission and United Kingdom (see article no. 10489)...
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11 December 2017
Germany: Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and BLG Logistics organise employee exchange programme to prepare staff for the challenges of digitalisation
As part of a pilot project named CROSS (Competence Rotation Over Several Sectors), 14 workers at Mercedes-Benz, Airbus and BLG Logistics participated in an employee exchange programme, between...
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8 December 2017
United Kingdom: Primark and Sports Direct singled out for failing to pay the minimum wage
Having stuck to its policy to ‘name and shame’ offending firms, the UK government published a list of 260 companies that failed to pay the minimum wage to a combined total of 16,000 workers. In...
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8 December 2017
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On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
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On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
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