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Inditex: the fashion retail group is turning to union experts for assistance in implementing the global framework agreement on fundamental rights along its supply chain
On 25 April the Spanish fashion retail giant and the international union federation IndustriALL Global signed a global agreement that will deploy trade union experts per country or region who will...
26 April 2016
Great Britain: the government unveils details of the new apprenticeship levy
The apprenticeship levy was introduced in the 2015 Budget. In a bid to reach its goal of 3 million apprentices, the government had announced it would be putting an apprenticeship levy in place in...
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26 April 2016
Argentina: a banking sector agreement is struck and the metals sector starts to mobilize
Following negotiations marked by a series of mobilizations, a banking sector agreement was eventually forthcoming during Argentina’s overall sectoral negotiations. The trade union secured an...
26 April 2016
Great Britain: even City bosses are re-examining their own salaries
Is the era of the ‘fat cat’ coming to an end? This is the question that the UK is starting to ask itself as a shocking report, paradoxically presented by some of the City’s biggest leaders...
25 April 2016
Poland: independent workers to be able to unionize
At the end of March 2016, Poland’s Minister for Labor and Social Policy presented a draft law to the social partners for consultation on implementing legislation in line with the Constitutional...
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25 April 2016
India: the draft law on child labor fans the debate on family work
The Labor Minister recently affirmed that child labor rates had fallen by 64% over the last decade and that he was putting forward a proposal to eradicate it completely. Unions, NGOs, and Nobel...
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25 April 2016
United States: in a bid to mollify Uber driver demands to convert to salaried employees, the company will pay up to $100 million and offer new guarantees against arbitrary driver deactivation
Non-taxi, on-demand chauffeurs in California and Massachusetts launched a class action calling for drivers to be reclassified as salaried employees. On 20 April, Uber announced it had come to an...
22 April 2016
Poland: the government has three months to transpose Directive 2014/67/EU on the posting of workers
For several years, posted workers, with Polish posted workers being one of the EU’s main ‘exports’, have been vigorously criticized in terms of the risks for social dumping by countries with...
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22 April 2016
Japan: modest wage rises from the 2016 annual negotiations
Japan’s annual springtime ‘shunto’ wage negotiations between employers and union have resulted in salary increases for the third year in a row in the country’s large companies, but also in the...
22 April 2016
EU: budget line is published to fund joint actions with EWCs, especially as regards training
The European Commission has published its annual call for proposals on “information, consultation and participation of representatives of undertakings,” which may then be exploited to partially...
21 April 2016
France: confrontation and social transformation for a CGT that is repositioning contest at the heart of its action
Since 18 April, and at 120 years of age, the CGT union confederation held its 51st Congress in Marseille, France. Delegates voted for a call to strike on 28 April (and perhaps beyond) in protest...
21 April 2016
Switzerland: citizens get to decide on multinational human rights due diligence (in 2018 at the earliest)
The Popular Initiative for “Responsible Multinational Businesses” has received more than 140,000 signatures since it was launched a year ago. 100,000 signatures is the required threshold for a...
Spain: signature of a new national collective agreement for the banking sector
On 19 April, following fourteen months of meetings and difficult negotiations, an agreement was signed for a banking sector that is preparing itself for a new wave of restructuring. The four-year...
20 April 2016
Great Britain: McDonald’s will no longer require zero hour contract working
British workers at McDonald’s fast-food chain operating under zero-hours contracts that guarantee neither workers’ working hours nor their pay, will now be able to choose to move over to...
20 April 2016
India: unions call for nationwide strike protesting anti-labor policies and worker disaffection increases
Following a ‘National Protest Day’ on 10th March (c.f. article No. 9535), India’s 11 major trade unions have called for a second nationwide strike on 02 September, protesting what they call...
20 April 2016
Great Britain: companies are accused of not playing ball with the National Living Wage
Barely two weeks into the official implementation of the National Living Wage (NLW) that translates into a 7.5% rise in minimum pay, and British MPs are pointing the finger of ‘blame and shame’ at...
19 April 2016
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On 17 July 2025, BPCE and its trade unions signed a second agreement on jobs and career management within the banking group. The text places generative artificial intelligence at the core of its...
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Italy’s labour market continues to suffer from limited pay transparency and a persistent gender pay gap. The forthcoming implementation of the EU pay transparency directive — still awaiting...
14 October 2025
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France: Decathlon introduces a ‘duty to respect others’ right to disconnect’
A right-to-disconnect agreement was signed in late September for the French arm of the Decathlon sports retail group. It sets out a "duty to respect others’ right to disconnect" and provides...
14 November 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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France: construction sector turns to long-term partial activity scheme
Amid the ongoing economic crisis hitting France’s construction sector, social partners in the public works industry (350,000 employees) signed an agreement at the end of October enabling companies...
21 November 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Ireland: 2026-2030 action plan launched to promote collective bargaining
Irish employment minister Peter Burke announced on 5 November the launch of the Action Plan to Promote Collective Bargaining 2026–2030. Developed jointly with the Irish Congress of Trade...
20 November 2025