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On 17 November, the European social partners of the banking sector* signed a Joint Declaration on Telework in the European Banking Sector. They have already agreed to also sign a further joint...

4 December 2017

Italy: collective agreement renewed at Poste Italiane

Following almost two years of negotiations, Poste Italiane signed a new collective agreement with the Slc-Cgil, Slp-Cisl, Uilposte, Failp-Cisal, Confsal and Ugl trade unions. Penned on 30...

4 December 2017

Argentina: government looks to move quickly on labour law reform, despite protests

The Argentinian government has set itself an ambitious target for its controversial reform of working time. The bill reached the parliamentary stage two weeks ago, following an unprecedented...

4 December 2017

Italy: UniCredit and its EWC sign a joint declaration on work-life balance

This declaration is a first in Europe’s banking sector. It sets out a series of measures that recognize workers’ skills and working time, whilst also respecting their private lives at a time when...

30 November 2017

Germany: Audi launches a major training campaign focused on big data and artificial intelligence

Germany’s automaker has just launched a major further-training ‘campaign’ called ‘data.camp’, which should enable “faster and more targeted skills acquisition for employees in areas for the...

30 November 2017

Aviva: the UK insurer puts parental leave in place for second parents in five countries

Going forward, second parents employed by Aviva and currently working in France, the UK, Ireland, Canada and Singapore can, upon the birth or adoption of their child/children, benefit from real...

30 November 2017

Italy: far reaching transformation has occurred in recent years in the country’s the industrial relations model

Six years have passed since FCA (then Fiat) quit the country’s employers’ body Confindustria. The resultant seismic effects on the social landscape sparked a series of structural changes that have...

29 November 2017

EU: national legislation cannot hinder a self-employed worker reclassified as a worker from securing ex-poste compensation for all untaken holiday periods

On 29 November, the CJEU ruled that a worker must be able to carry over and accumulate unexercised rights to paid annual leave when an employer does not put that worker in a position in which he...

29 November 2017

Sweden: following the global #metoo campaign, female union members are launching their own movement

With the slogan ‘This is non-negotiable’, #inteförhandlingsbart, female union members want to take advantage of the momentum that the global #metoo campaign against sexual harassment has generated...

29 November 2017

EU: the EU Commission launches a public consultation on a European Labour Authority, as well as a European Social Security Number

The European Commission is considering the shape of a future European Labour Authority and European Social Security Number and on 27 November it launched a public consultation across all relevant...

28 November 2017

Great Britain: a productivity-led industrial strategy with a construction sector agreement

On 27 November the UK government presented a new industrial strategy to tackle the country’s ongoing productivity woes since the financial crisis and to try to reassure business as Brexit...

28 November 2017

Sweden: Spotify employees can choose their own ‘public holidays’

On 17 November Sweden’s online music streaming company, Spotify announced that its 3,500 staff would be offered flexible public holidays (Flexheg). Since Spotify employees come from many different...

28 November 2017

Bangladesh: the government announces its intention to relax trade union laws

On Tuesday 21 November Bangladesh’s government announced it was looking to relax its labor law so as to facilitate the establishment of trade unions in factories. “The laws will be amended in line...

28 November 2017

Austria: retail sector secures up to a 2.6% pay rise and reforms to pay scales

On Wednesday 22 November, Austria’s retail sector, the country’s largest employer with almost 400,000 workers, presented the results of negotiations that secured a collective agreement, which will...

23 November 2017

Portugal: pre-agreement on working time at the Palmela Volkswagen plant

On 22 November at AutoEuropa, Volkswagen’s automotive assembly plant, located in the city of Palmela, near Lisbon, Portugal, management at the German automaker together with the Workers Commission...

23 November 2017

Great Britain: a training program designed by both employers and unions

On 22 November during the UK government’s autumn budget presentation, the chancellor announced an ‘historic’ partnership between the employers’ body, the CBI, and the union confederation body, the...

23 November 2017

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