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Currently being debated at the National Assembly, this draft reform of trade union law intends for: independent workers to be able to establish and become members of trade unions, an increase in...

31 January 2018

Spain: pay moderation agreement at Opel Figueruelas

Management and unions at the Spanish Opel plant have announced a pre-agreement on salaries which includes a 2018 pay freeze in exchange for new projects securing the site’s future.

30 January 2018

Norway fresh strike action protesting temporary employment agencies is set for March

Following last November’s strike action, four unions from the electronics, construction, and plumbing sectors together with the LO Confederation have decided to organize fresh strike action for 15...

30 January 2018

Portugal: following a sit-in workers at the former Triumph underwear and lingerie workplace secure collective dismissal for economic reasons

Following a three-week sit-in at the facility, 463 former Triumph workers secured a company insolvency decision. The Tribunal ruling now unlocks the right to collective dismissal compensation, and...

30 January 2018

News update as of January 26, 2018

On the menu : Spanish Employment minister seeks stronger penalties against companies that hand out temporary contracts without justification and a work-life balance agreement which grants the...

26 January 2018

Germany: IG Metall union agrees to last-ditch negotiation push in the metal sector and issues ultimatum

Following a crisis meeting held on 26 January, the leadership of the IG Metall union announced that it would continue negotiations with the employer organisation in Baden-Württemberg, the most...

25 January 2018

Finland: government, challenged because of its recent policies to activate the unemployed, calls for help from companies

Faced with the threat of social movement, Finland’s Prime Minister is calling on employers to help by hiring the unemployed for short periods of time. The trade unions, which also represent the...

25 January 2018

Finland brief update: Google is funding a cooperative set up by the journalists union to give journalists freelance status

Mediakunta cooperative, which according to the latest count employs more than 160 freelance journalists, has just received €50,000 from the Google Digital News Initiative, as funding support to...

25 January 2018

Poland: important labor law reforms expected for 2018

Despite the Labor Minister, Elzbieta Rafalska’s autumn 2017 declarations that “there will not be a revolution within the Labor Code’, the 2018 reforms will overhaul several important legal...

24 January 2018

Briefly: The European Commission has uploaded a guide and information on the new on personal data protection regulation

The European Commission had intended to provide the national governments and relevant authorities with a guide to ensure the homogeneous application of the regulation. The guide has just been...

24 January 2018

France and Germany seek to encourage apprenticeship mobility between both countries and intra-Europe

On 22 January 2018, Franco-German Day, at the French embassy in Berlin, the topic of apprenticeship mobility took center-stage with high-level ranking figures from both countries attending and...

24 January 2018

News update as of January 23, 2018

On the menu : an ILO Convention against violence at work in 2019, an agreement resolving a dispute between the international trade unions and a leading clothing brand has amounted to $2.3...

23 January 2018

Canada: with the 2017 labor law reform, Ontario has taken its first step on the road towards fairer workplaces

In May 2017, following two years of detailed examination of Ontario’s changing workplaces, both special advisers C. Michael Mitchell and John C. Murray that Labor Minister Kevin Flynn tasked with...

22 January 2018

Stora Enso: global framework agreement signed

On Friday 19 January, Stora Enso, the Finnish-Swedish company that specialises in renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper, signed a global framework agreement with three...

22 January 2018

France: government looks to foster mobility of apprentices in Europe

Reforming France’s apprenticeships framework is currently under discussion among social partners, but the government believes the issue needs to be tackled not only on a national level but at the...

19 January 2018

Japan: older workers allowed to accumulate jobs

Job combining or accumulation has been prohibited for a longtime at Japan’s companies and their internal regulations have stated as much. However the Minister for Health Employment and Social...

19 January 2018

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