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On 24 September, the Swedish clothing company’s Italian subsidiary that employs more than 5,000 staff across more than 150 H&M, Cos, and &Other Stories sales outlets signed an agreement...

26 September 2018

News update as of 25 September 2018

On the menu: IndustriALL Global Union turns up the volume on the dispute over unionized workers who have been dismissed in the Yves Rocher Turkey subsidiary, Airbnb is looking to extend...

25 September 2018

News update as of September 21, 2018

On the menu : Austria/ employment summit focused on apprenticeship and economic migrants, workers from McDonalds and Wetherspoon pubs to go on strike , Ryanair: standardization after the...

21 September 2018

Germany: 3.6% wage increase in chemical sector

Social partners in Germany’s chemical sector have struck an agreement that will see the wages of the 580,000 workers in the industry increase by 3.6% over a period of 15 months. Holiday pay will...

20 September 2018

Germany: the government launches its ‘offensive promoting life-long training’ in the digital age

Despite business leaders’ criticisms (c.f. article No. 10809), on 19 September Germany’s grand coalition government gave the green light to the Minister of Labor, Hubertus Heil’s (SPD) draft law...

20 September 2018

Austria: combatting new working time legislation is at the heart of metals trade union demands

Austria’s annual collective bargaining round that affects approximately 186,000 workers across size sub-sectors is set to start on Thursday 20 September with trade unions Pro-GE (Industry) and...

20 September 2018

Three French trade union bodies are applying pressure on companies operating in the Israeli-occupied-territories

In a report (in French)*published in June 2018, three French trade union organizations, the CGT, CFDT, and the SUD called on Alstom, Egis-Rail and Systra** to halt their participation in the...

20 September 2018

News update as of September 19, 2018

On the menu: an ETUC report on organizing digital platform workers and still with digital work, discussions on the possibility for an international crowdworker social security system; part-time...

19 September 2018

BNP Paribas: global agreement on fundamental rights and social floor penned with Uni Global Union

On 18 September, the French banking group signed, along with global service sector union Uni Global Union, its first global deal. In addition to reaffirming its commitments on human rights in the...

18 September 2018

EU: an ETUC (European Trade Union Confederation) study on what workers think about the impact of digital transformation

On 18 September during a conference meeting held in Brussels, the ETUC presented a singular snapshot showing how Europe's workers and worker representatives (unions, national and European works...

18 September 2018

Robots will create more jobs than they will destroy – according to the WEF

Robots within the world of work will most certainly destroy 75 million jobs by 2022. However the robot revolution will also create 133 million new jobs. Thus one of the conclusions from the Swiss...

18 September 2018

News update as of September 14, 2018

On the menu : in the US, NLRB presents rule change to its joint-employer standard, abusive language about one’s employer, used in a private Facebook group, does not represent real and serious...

14 September 2018

The ILO presented its draft international convention on ending violence and harassment in the world of work

The International Labour Office (the permanent secretariat of the International Labour Organization) has prepared the texts for both a draft convention and a draft recommendation on ending...

13 September 2018

UN: Treaty discussions restart based on a draft text on multinational corporation responsibility in cases of human rights violations

Discussions on a draft Treaty on multinational corporation responsibility in cases of human rights violations (c.f. articles No. 10416 and No. 9188) are set to restart on 15 October, and will be...

13 September 2018

Germany: draft legislation set to change life-long training support provisions

Presented by the Chancellor as the first step in the grand coalition government’s ‘National Strategy for Life-Long Training’ (c.f. article No. 10801), Employment Minister Hubertus Heil’s (SPD)...

12 September 2018

France: Labor Ministry presents first review of the ‘Macron Ordonnances’ (President Macron’s fast track ordinances)

On 10 September at an informal national press conference French Labor Minister Muriel Pénicaud presented a summary of President Macron’s series of ordinances that aimed to overhaul the country’s...

12 September 2018

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