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Following the legislative elections on 22 October, the coalition led by centre-right president Mauricio Macri has emerged as the electoral force. This week the political grouping, named Cambiemos...

3 November 2017

United Kingdom: eight leading companies commit to tackling slavery

The first Business Against Slavery Forum was held in London in October. The event brought together the chief executives of eight leading UK companies, including banking groups Barclays and HSBC as...

3 November 2017

Brazil: industry trade unions in São Paulo support inserting a ‘safeguard clause’ into agreements, so as to protect from the effects of labour reform

During an assembly organised by the CUT, Brazil’s Unified Workers’ Central, which brought together trade unions from various sectors, the principle and terms of a so-called ‘safeguard clause’ were...

2 November 2017

India: Aadhaar identity number a boon for HR departments but a source of worry for defenders of civil liberties

The Aadhaar is a unique identity number linked to individuals’ demographic and biometric information. With no identity card system in place in India, this unique identity number allows more and...

2 November 2017

Finland: country set for a wave of collective agreements allowing greater flexibility via company-level deals

On 30 October, the Finnish Industrial Union (Teollisuusliitto), formerly the metalworkers’ union, announced that it has negotiated a new collective agreement with the sector’s employer...

2 November 2017

Switzerland: innovative collective agreement signed at retail group Coop

On Wednesday 27 October, social partners at Switzerland’s second-largest retail/wholesale group Coop presented a new collective labour agreement, which will apply from 2018 until 2021. This...

31 October 2017

Slovenia: Mini Labour Reform enacted

The Slovene parliament adopted the so called "Mini Labour Reform" by enacting amendments to the Labour Regulations Act and the Labour Inspection Act. This reform does not include amendments to the...

31 October 2017

News update as of October 30, 2017

On the menu : Catalonian independence row causes exodus of firms, BusinessEurope prepared to negotiate revision to the Written Statement Directive, Bill to reduce the pay gap between men and women...

30 October 2017

United States: AFL CIO union federation backs President Trump’s NAFTA negotiations

Leaders of the union federation AFL-CIO that groups some 56 unions have converged on some areas in the NAFTA renegotiations

26 October 2017

Italy: banking social partners institute a bilateral commission on responsible selling of financial products

The ‘code of good conduct’ signed in February 2017 by both the banking employers’ body (ABI- Associazione Bancaria Italiana) and the trade unions (FABI, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, UGL, Uilca, and...

26 October 2017

Lithuania: a tri-partite agreement aimed at giving fresh impetus to the country

On 16 October the government, together with employers and unions signed an agreement that intends for several reforms, especially as regards developing collective bargaining and making the country...

26 October 2017

France: the government presents its roadmap for apprenticeships, vocational training and unemployment insurance

This roadmap is the ‘second stage in renewing the social model’ after the first reform of the Labor Code stage, and as sought by President Emmanuel Macron. Following discussions with the social...

25 October 2017

Austria: landmark alignment of blue collar and employee employment status

On 25 October, Austria’s Federal Council, the Bundesrat, confirmed changes made, during the final Council of Ministers session on 12 October by the then outgoing government prior to the elections...

25 October 2017

The third UN working group session on a proposed binding business and human rights treaty gets to the heart of the matter

The Open-ended Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) on Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises that is tasked with developing a binding instrument on multinational enterprises’...

25 October 2017

Denmark: Sweden and Denmark agree Post Danmark bailout package

Officially the term used was ‘relief’ but the agreement struck between Sweden and Denmark that pulls Post Danmark back from the brink of bankruptcy involved complicated negotiations, not least...

25 October 2017

EU: European Commission to present a social fairness and equity package in 2018

In spring 2018, the European Commission intends to present a series of legislative and non-legislative measures supporting social fairness. The package will tackle the challenges of labor mobility...

24 October 2017

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Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...

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