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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

EU: difficult compromise agreement secured on the posting of workers directive

Meeting in Luxembourg, on the evening of 23 October, and after twelve long hours of discussions, Europe’s Employment and Social Affairs Ministers finally came to a compromise agreement on reform...

24 October 2017

Germany: ‘culture clash’ between Tesla Grohmann automation and IG Metall concludes with compromise

For several months a tough struggle has been underway between the German trade union IG Metall and the US electric automaker Tesla, which in 2016, bought the small German company Grohmann...

24 October 2017

Great Britain: government to begin refunding employment tribunal fees

In July 2017 the UK’s Supreme Court ruling on a case brought by the trade union Unison held that the controversial Government’s 2013 employment tribunal fees system (c.f. article No. 10321) was...

24 October 2017

News update as of October 23, 2017

On the menu : a mediator for the ‘crowdworking’ sector in Germany, OECD highlights risk of UK departure from the EU, employers in California face stricter requirements for sexual harassment...

20 October 2017

Germany: collective negotiations schedule for 2018

In 2018, social partners in Germany will conduct negotiations over salaries and collective agreements, which will effect more than 9.7 million employees. This compares to the 11.4 million affected...

20 October 2017

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