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Italy: first of its kind alliance at FCA-Chrysler between Fim-Cisl and the senior executives association
A first of its kind alliance has been struck between workers and senior executives at Fiat that establishes a new era in Italian industrial relations. On 29 March, Fim union and the Fiat CNH...
31 March 2016
Renault: the new EWC agreement, signed with the SNB, is placed under European Directive 2009/38
On 24 March, the French automaker together with the SNB signed a new EWC agreement. In taking up the procedure right from the start the goal was to establish an SNB according to the terms in the...
31 March 2016
Spain: first national collective agreement concluded for the metal sector
On 29 March, unions and employers announced they had signed the first national collective agreement for the technology industry and the metal services sector, which guarantees a minimum level of...
30 March 2016
Great Britain: the government is looking to reduce the number of non-European foreigners being hired
On 24 March the Government announced a series of measures aimed at ‘protecting job opportunities for UK residents and reducing UK businesses’ reliance on foreign workers,’ by adding additional...
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30 March 2016
United States: California sets $15 minimum wage by 2022
California is moving to a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2022, whereas the Federal hourly minimum is fixed at $7.25. Following several consultations with Republicans in Congress, employers’...
30 March 2016
Argentina: agreement over wages in the automobile sector
With joint negotiations already in full swing in Argentina, in mid-March Smata, the automobile union (sindicato de mecanicos y afines del transporte), struck an agreement for the new April-June...
30 March 2016
Italy: the metals unions have called for a general strike in support of their demands that their national sector collective agreement be renewed
On 24 March, following a summit meeting between the metals sector employers’ bodies, Federmeccanica and Assistal, and the sector’s three main union bodies, Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL, and Uilm-Uil, the...
25 March 2016
France: adoption of a draft law on labor market reform
Expected to provide a solution to record levels of unemployment, the latest major reform of François Hollande’s five year presidential term was rewritten following demonstrations by both unions...
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24 March 2016
Germany: the Employment Minister wants to quickly create ‘jobs for a euro’ for asylum seekers as a way of getting them ‘jobs-market-ready’
On 23 March, Andrea Nahles, Germany’s Minister for Social Affairs and Labor announced that this year she wanted to create 100,000 ‘jobs for a euro’ for refugees whose asylum requests are being...
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24 March 2016
France: the draft law on due diligence returns to the Senate following its adoption by the National Assembly
On 23 March France’s National Assembly adopted the draft law that looks to oblige France’s largest companies to take reasonable care in order to pre-empt human rights violations and environmental...
United States: more transparency over companies’ recourse to “union hunters”
On 23 March, the Labor Department published the final version of the new rule on transparency as relates to companies hiring consultants and lawyers to assist in discouraging workers from...
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23 March 2016
Great Britain: financial services to commit to making room for women
Several British banks have signed a Government charter in which they pledge for a better gender balance especially by placing more women in key roles. This represents a revolution in so far as the...
Italy: moves to make vouchers used for casual labor more traceable
On 22 March, Giuliano Poletti, the Minister for Labor announced that the voucher system used for casual labor would become traceable. This is in a bid to counter misuse of the system, a fact that...
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23 March 2016
To our friends and colleagues in Brussels,
This note is to send you our heartfelt support and to share in your sadness, knowing, as we do, what these events entail. We may be ‘Planet’ in name but much of who we are resides in...
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22 March 2016
EU: the 4th UNI Europa Conference was held under the heading ‘Changing Europe Together’
With the desire to ‘Change Europe’, thanks to stronger unions with increased negotiations influence, UNI Europa gathered its members together for a three-day conference, held in Rome from the 14th...
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22 March 2016
Great-Britain : Brexit could cost Britain £100 billion and one million jobs (CBI)
Leaving the EU would cause a serious shock to the UK economy that could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020, a report commissioned by the CBI...
21 March 2016
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
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On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
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Germany: report previews draft bill to transpose EU Pay Transparency Directive
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