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On March 8 the women of Spain will take part in the first national strike to combat wage inequality and gender violence. In 2017 feminist associations called for a symbolic 30 minute work...

7 March 2018

Brazil: IT sector trade unions facing challenges in attracting younger members

Over recent years Brazil’s information and technology sectors have grown rapidly and are now number 7 in the world. Brazil’s population is ‘internet connected’ and attracted to good pay and growth...

7 March 2018

Argentina: a slight upturn in employment as well as an increase in the number and proportion of self-employed

Argentina’s Labor Ministry published its employment data for 2017, which revealed a slight upturn by way of a 2.2% annual increase in the number of employed as well as a dramatic increase in the...

7 March 2018

News update as of March 6, 2018

On the menu : a gig economy employer obliged to officially recognize a trade union in the UK, Clarification of maximum working time in Korea, Salary agreement for the Volkswagen Autoeuropa plant...

6 March 2018

Alstom-Siemens Mobility merger: unions are calling for measures to safeguard the future of jobs in Europe’s rail industry

In the wake of a union coordination meeting that was organized in Brussels by industriAll Europe in Brussels on 14 February at the close of a, trade unions from Germany, Austria, Belgium, the UK...

5 March 2018

France: bolstering individual rights to occupational training

This is the second series of employment-related reforms and follows the first that in 2017 addressed the labor law. On 05 March the Labor Minister promised a ‘big bang’ reform as she presented the...

5 March 2018

Portugal: social dialogue over labour code reform at an impasse but yet to break down

Social partners in Portugal are continuing social dialogue, as part of which they are discussing significant changes to the labour code adopted during the period of austerity in the country...

2 March 2018

Germany: attempts from extreme-right union to infiltrate factories provokes concern

For several months, the German press has been raising the alarm as extreme right-wing trade union Zentrum Automobil (ZA) has attempted to gain a foothold in the country’s automobile sector...

2 March 2018

Brexit: Theresa May expresses desire for a labour mobility framework (in brief)

On Friday 2 March, the UK prime minister presented her vision for the UK’s future partnership with the European Union after Brexit. For the first time, Theresa May clearly stated her desire to...

2 March 2018

EU : an agreement on posted workers yet to be confirmed

Europe’s co-legislators have cautiously announced an agreement on draft legislation treating posted workers, which aims to combat social dumping.

1 March 2018

Italy : industry social partners conclude an agreement for collective bargaining reform

Following 18 months of discussions, Confindustria president, Vincenzo Boccia and the secretaries general of the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil unions came to agreement on 28 February over a text that is set...

1 March 2018

Brexit: the UK concedes on European citizens’ rights whilst still firmly rejecting first draft of the treaty

On 28 February, and based on the initial agreement signed in December 2017, a draft Brexit treaty drawn up by the EU and for the first time formulated in legal text was presented in Brussels (c.f...

1 March 2018

France: a certification by the Statutory Auditor used to determine a profit-share reserve cannot be called into question as part of litigation over the profit-share, even when the employee representatives expose company fraud

In a decision handed down on 28 February 2018, the Labor Division of France’s highest appeals court, the Chambre sociale de la Cour de Cassation, quashed without referral a February 2016 decision...

1 March 2018

United States: joint-employer status is ‘back in business’

A key ruling dating from December 2017 by the Republican dominated NLRB federal agency (National Labor Relations Board) on joint-employer status has been thrown out, because one of the five voting...

28 February 2018

General Electric puts a EWC structure in place comprising a central committee and business committees to fit GE’s multiple business operations companies structure

These EWC negotiations had a number of goals, not least to learn from the GE acquisition of Alstom’s energy business and provide representation for all European employees within the group’s...

28 February 2018

The Global Deal à la Française emphasizes international social dialogue

Launched in September 2016 by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, the Global Deal initiative seeks to use social dialogue as the vector to restate and rebalance the economic and social dimension...

27 February 2018

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