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Brazil: another day of national protest over labour reform
On Friday 30 June, the main central trade union groups and social organisations in Brazil organised protests in the country’s biggest cities. The movement, which was initially supposed to be a...
3 July 2017
Bangladesh: over twenty leading fashion brands signed a new safety agreement with garment factories
On 29 June twenty-three leading ready-to-wear fashion brands together with the IndustriALL and Uni Global Union organizations signed a new safety agreement covering Bangladeshi garment factories.
29 June 2017
United States: the NLRB comes under Republican influence
President Donald Trump has just nominated two representatives to the board as counterweights to the pro-union decisions of its current makeup.
29 June 2017
France: draft law adopted enabling the government to reform the Labor Code via a series of ordinances
On 28 June France’s Council of Ministers adopted the draft enabling law that authorizes the government to proceed with Labor Code reform via the ordinance instrument. Primacy for the company-level...
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28 June 2017
Austria: introduction of a hiring bonus and a rise in tax-free employee profit sharing
The call for early elections to be held on 15 October has forced the government to adopt several measures before the parliamentary summer recess. Among these is the Beschäftigungsbonus, or hiring...
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28 June 2017
News updates as of June 27, 2017
On the menu: strike ends at VW Bratislava (Slovakia), some new sector negotiations in Belgium, in Luxembourg the 2014-2016 banking sector collective labor agreement is renewed, according to...
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26 June 2017
Great Britain: special status to only be offered to EU citizens with a minimum of five years residency
On 26 June, UK PM Theresa May confirmed that following Brexit, EU citizens will have had to have been resident in the UK for at least five years in order to avail of the ‘settled status’, which...
26 June 2017
India: tech employees mobilise to create sector’s first trade union
The Forum for IT Employees (FITE) is preparing to file an application to the government of Tamil Nadu state in India and become the first trade union for tech workers in the country. The news...
26 June 2017
Lithuania: new labour code promulgated
On 15 June, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė promulgated the new version of the country’s labour code, which is geared towards creating greater flexibility in the labour market and...
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26 June 2017
Digitalization: Danish, Swedish, and German social partners compared
A study by Anna Ilsøe, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, focuses on work related digitalization, something that has intensified over recent years via...
26 June 2017
Sodexo: signs a global agreement with the IUF over preventing sexual harassment at work
In line with the direction set in the international framework agreement signed by both Sodexo and the IUF in December 2011 on commitments to respect fundamental rights at work, namely freedom of...
22 June 2017
Austria: the Foodora platform sets up its first works council
In Europe’s large towns and cities, food delivery services operating via smartphone apps, and for the most part employing freelance workers are in full swing. Similar to the UBER platform based...
22 June 2017
EU: the ETUC maintains that the European Commission’s reflection on improving access to social protection for a-typical and independent workers cannot exempt it from leading policies that target creating quality
On 13 – 14 June the Executive Committee of the European Trade Union Confederation accepted its response to the first stage consultation of the EU social partners on addressing the challenges of...
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22 June 2017
Great Britain: workers did not feature in a Brexit oriented queen’s speech
With the UK reeling from terrorist attacks, the Grenfell tower fire disaster, and the Conservatives recent election failure the traditional Queen’s speech, which sets out the new government’s...
21 June 2017
Slovenia: the government adopts two draft labor policy laws on employment and labor inspection in a potential foretaste of reform to the employment relationship act
In November 2016 Slovenia’s government presented its ‘Mini Labor Reform’ that comprised three elements, namely, combatting hidden employment in a country that uses various contract types other...
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21 June 2017
United States: the State of Oregon adopts a law on equal pay
Along with other actors in civil society, trade unions are seeking to encourage US States and cities to enact pay equality legislation and secure via the medium of regulations what they struggle...
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21 June 2017
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Netherlands: new government seeks to “control” social costs
In his government policy statement to Parliament on 25 February, Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten announced several measures designed to "control" social costs. Notably, he proposed raising the...
5 March 2026
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Germany: launch of the “WE-Fair” alliance for binational training of skilled foreign workers
Germany continues to expand and diversify its initiatives to attract skilled foreign labour from outside the EU. In mid-March 2026, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development...
26 March 2026
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Spain: a bill to regulate internships
On 3 March, the Council of Ministers approved the bill on the “Status for persons undergoing non-professional practical training in companies”. The text limits the number of interns a company can...
13 March 2026
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EU: co-legislators aim to pivot European Globalisation Adjustment Fund towards restructuring anticipation
On 25 February, the Council of the EU and the Parliament reached an agreement on the Commission’s proposed regulation to expand the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF). Under the...
2 March 2026
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Block to slash workforce by nearly half
The news. In his latest shareholder letter, Jack Dorsey, CEO of payment service provider Block (formerly Square), announced plans to slash the company’s workforce “by nearly half, from...
6 March 2026