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Following a year of negotiations, on 03 May unions and management signed an agreement that intends to safeguard jobs and skills during AXA Italia’s upcoming restructuring and reorganization. The...

16 May 2016

Poland: shadow employment falling but remains significant

Over the last decade the size of the shadow economy in Poland has decreased sharply. This does not mean, however, that the problem no longer exists although estimates of its size vary greatly...

16 May 2016

South Korea: authorities promoting performance related pay within public sector banks

The country’s authorities via the Financial Services Commission (FSC), South Korea’s top financial regulator, are calling on State financial institutions to implement performance related pay...

16 May 2016

Germany: 4.8% wage rise for metals worker

On the morning of Friday 13 May, negotiators from both the employers’ federations (Gesamtmetall) and the union (IG Metall) in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) presented a pilot agreement...

13 May 2016

EU: the European Commission puts forward 13 new limits to workers’ exposure to chemical products

A month after launching its 2016 – 2017 occupational health and safety campaign, the European Commission has moved into top gear and on 13 May it presented occupational exposure limits (OELs) for...

13 May 2016

France: labour law reform bill adopted by National Assembly

The French government has used its executive powers to push through its labour code reform bill, which was adopted on Thursday 12 May. The text now goes before the Senate. The main issues at hand...

13 May 2016

United States: OSHA will publish company data on injuries and illnesses

Management at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the US Department of Labor body that supervises health and safety at work announced that it would be making data supplied by...

13 May 2016

Germany: pension reforms under debate

For several years Germany’s political parties have put forward competing proposals for pension reform in a bid to combat the risk of poverty for future retirees. The most recent proposal has come...

12 May 2016

Finland: coalescence of the three union confederations waxing and waning

Since 2014 Finland’s trade unions have been gearing up for a merger of the country’s three main confederations. Following an initial period when the project seemed to be on track without any major...

12 May 2016

Argentina: more than 200 businesses have committed to not laying off workers despite the recession

At the start of the week, the government of Mauricio Macri, President since 2015, loudly announced that the country’s big businesses had committed to halting any more redundancies ‘despedidos’ for...

12 May 2016

Germany: the grand coalition adopts an agreement on limiting temporary work and services provisions contracts

Following months of controversy, Germany’s government coalition (CDU/CSU, and SPD) heads finally agreed in a closed meeting at the Finance Ministry during the evening of 10 May on a new regulation...

11 May 2016

United States: Uber commits to monthly dialogue with the Independent Drivers Guild

California’s ‘ride-hailing’ company, Uber has come to an agreement with drivers of the New York Independent Drivers Guild, which is linked with the International Association of Machinists and...

11 May 2016

Great Britain: Lloyds bank to offer staff transgender surgery

Lloyds Banking Group will be the first business to offer gender reassignment surgery to its employees through its existing private healthcare provider.

11 May 2016

Argentina: negotiations in the metals sector come to a close

Following last week’s demonstration and against a backdrop of scheduled mobilizations should negotiations fail, the metals workers’ union, UOM (unión obrera metalúrgica) has signed a 35% wage...

11 May 2016

EU: national parliaments putting the proposal for a directive on the posting of workers at risk

The revision to the EU rules on the posting of workers has clearly upset some of the EU Member States. After the Monti 11 2012 regulation (that limited the cross-border right to strike) met with...

10 May 2016

Norway: a round up of 2016 negotiations

2016 is an important year for negotiations and although the industry pay rise of 2.4% set the tone, several sectors have nonetheless run into negotiations difficulties. Kjetil Olsen, economist at...

10 May 2016

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