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A majority of unions ( five out of six) at the French car manufacturer signed today (January 19) the agreements to make use of two new measures introduced as part of France’s new labour reform –...

18 January 2018

Spain: social partners prepare to renew the salary framework agreement

Employers and unions are getting set for the upcoming salary framework agreement negotiations due to start on 25 January that will serve as a guide for collective negotiations overall. This...

18 January 2018

India: how are the labor law reforms progressing?

Labor law reforms initiated by India’s government in 2014 are set to continue during 2018. The ultimate goal is to regroup 44 laws into four major codes namely, salaries, industrial relations...

18 January 2018

News update as of January 17, 2018

On the menu : paternity leave rises to 4 days in Italy, a new collective agreement at Swisscom focusing on employability and conciliation, A High Council for social dialogue is put in place in...

17 January 2018

Germany: towards a new law on economic immigration

On 12 January 2018, in the preliminary agreement presented by the future government coalition both conservative (CDU/CSU) and social-democrat (SPD) members (c.f. article No. 10520) announced their...

16 January 2018

Sweden: a new action plan for gender pay equality

‘Halva Makten, hela lönen’, (half the power all the pay). This is the message, power and influence maybe being shared but salaries should also be equal.. Thus the crux of the message declared on...

16 January 2018

Turkey: some of the legal changes from 2017

In this article we compile a number of articles on labour law changes which have been reproduced here, with kind permission from the law firm Gün +Partners website. The changes relate to the...

16 January 2018

News update as of January 12, 2018

Germany/Hopes of a new government. Following five days of intense negotiations, three German party leaders – Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer of the CDU and CSU respectively, two conservative...

12 January 2018

Great Britain: an industrial strategy for the automotive sector

Following the first ‘Sector Deal’ for the Construction sector presented in November 2017, and the second, for the Life Sciences sector presented the following month in December 2017, on 10 January...

11 January 2018

Germany: more and more younger parents are opting for the ‘parental plus salary’

According to a report by the Families Ministry that the government adopted on 10 January 2018, the ‘parental plus salary’ provision (Elterngeld plus), which came into force on 01 July 2015, has...

11 January 2018

United States: New York association Fast Food Justice defending fast food sector employees

New York’s fast food workers have not managed to unionize. Introducing a trade union into a company is too long and complex a process. Until now, the sector’s major food chains including Mac...

11 January 2018

Greece: reform of the right to strike set for parliamentary vote on 15 January

Reform to the right to strike is just one of several pieces of legislation that the Greek parliament has to vote on before the Eurozone Finance Ministers meeting on 22 January. Greece’s trade...

11 January 2018

2018, a key year for the ILO’s Future of Work initiative

At the ILO’s 102nd plenary session in 2013, the Future of Work (FoW) initiative was chosen as one of seven central themes that would mark the tri-partite UN agency’s centenary in 2019. This...

10 January 2018

Switzerland: FAIRLOG, a new trade union platform in transport and logistics

During December 2017, the SEV, syndicom and Unia unions, all of which are wholly or partly involved with the transport and logistics sectors, established the FAIRLOG alliance as a way of better...

10 January 2018

News update as of January 9, 2018

On the menu: Spanish courts require companies to implement their equal pay plans for interim workers, German metals worker strike action is looming, Italy's Labor Ministry defines call center...

9 January 2018

France: labour law reform fully applicable from 1 January 2018

A set of 26 decrees to implement the five ordinances to reform France’s labour law (for detail, see article n° 10330) were published in the country’s Official Journal before the end of 2017, so...

8 January 2018

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Prior consultation with trade unions on innovations related to artificial intelligence, strengthened training, and progress on parenthood: these are the main new features of the agreement signed...

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After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...

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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union

The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...

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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy

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A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...

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