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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

8 December 2017

Ireland: government unveils bill to ban zero-hour contracts

Ireland’s centre-right government plans to ban zero-hour contracts, which offer no guarantee of a salary or working time, at the start of 2018. To this end, the Employment (Miscellaneous...

8 December 2017

In brief, United Kingdom and European Commission reach an agreement which guarantees the rights of European and British citizens post-Brexit

The Commission offers the assurance that “the rights of EU citizens living in the United Kingdom and United Kingdom citizens in the EU27 will remain the same after the United Kingdom has left the...

8 December 2017

France : the national rail company SNCF signs an agreement on modernizing union based communication

Against a backdrop of ‘digitalized industrial relations’, on 17 November, French rail company SNCF together with the principal representative union bodies, the central works council, and the...

6 December 2017

Italy: logistics sector national collective agreement renewed and a professional profile for riders to come

On 03 December, twenty or so employers’ bodies together with the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti unions signed an agreement that intends for the national collective agreement in the logistics...

5 December 2017

Great Britain: government to pull back its ‘Fit for Work’ program

Launched at the end of 2014 the government’s ‘Fit for Work’ initiative aimed at tackling absenteeism will be significantly downgraded from mid-December. The program had allowed employers to refer...

5 December 2017

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