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Lars Løkke Rasmussen’s government has presented the first phase of its employment reforms program. Rules over social benefits will be tightened in an attempt to make working more attractive than...

7 October 2015

Germany: 2015 – 2017 collective bargaining schedule

Germany’s collective bargaining year is coming to a close. Only the industrial cleaning and steelworks sectors still have to renegotiate wages and collective agreements before the end of the year...

6 October 2015

Italy: unification of the electrical sector is a major goal of the union platform for renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

Italy’s electrical sector’s unions have approved forming a single platform to renew the sector’s national collective agreement that affects 60,000 workers. Unions are looking to reunite the sector...

6 October 2015

United States: unions worried about the Trans-Pacific free trade pact

President Obama’s government has just concluded five days of non-stop marathon talks with the other eleven Pacific Rim countries eventually ending in a free trade agreement. Unionists in the...

5 October 2015

South Korea: a tripartite agreement on labor market reform

On 15 September, representatives of the FKTU union, employers and the South–Korean government concluded an agreement aimed at lifting some current labor market ‘rigidities’. However the other...

5 October 2015

Great Britain: the Conservative Party launches its own trade union movement

The Conservative Party is launching a new organisation to represent trade unionists sympathetic to the Tories. It is called the Conservative Workers and Trade Unionists Movement. Robert Halfon MP...

5 October 2015

Spain: interview with Ignacio Fernandez Toxo, General Secretary of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO)

In an interview with Planet Labor during the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress held in Paris last week, the leader of The Workers’ Commissions (CCOO) outlined his expectations...

5 October 2015

Great Britain: government support package for redundant steel workers

After having refused to prop up the British subsidiary of Thai steel company SSI, the UK Government unveiled a package of support to help the 1,700 employees find alternative employment after...

5 October 2015

EU: the 13th ETUC Congress promotes a model of European unionism capable of establishing “its own agenda”

The four year action program that the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Congress just adopted operates around three pillars: a strong economy for its citizens, stronger unions to defend...

2 October 2015

EU: an interview with Luca Visentini, the new General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

The ETUC’s new leader, elected during its Paris Congress that comes to a close on 02 October 2015 has a diary brimming with ambitious tasks; in short, change the current course of the economy. In...

2 October 2015

United States: UAW members reject the Fiat Chrysler wages agreement

It’s a no. With 65% of votes against, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) workers have rejected the wages agreement that representatives of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union had negotiated with the...

1 October 2015

Carrefour: signs an international framework agreement (IFA) on social dialogue and diversity

Carrefour, represented by Georges Plassat, its Chairman and CEO, together with Philip Jennings, General Secretary of UNI GLOBAL Union, and in the presence of Guy Ryder, Director-General of the...

1 October 2015

Telenor implements 6-month maternity leave for its staff worldwide

On 29 September the Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor announced it was putting 6-month paid maternity leave programs in place for its entire staff worldwide. The company is facing fierce...

1 October 2015

EU: not according compensation for employment insecurity to students working on fixed term contracts during holiday periods is compatible with EU law

On 01 October 2015, the CJEU recognized that the provision in the French Labor code (article L 1243-10) which excludes youth students working during their holiday periods from being allowed ‘job...

1 October 2015

Germany: interview with Reiner Hoffmann, President of the DGB union confederation

During the 13th ETUC Congress being held in Paris, Planet Labor interviewed Reiner Hoffmann, President of DGB on two issues that are currently capturing Germany’s attention: the refugee situation...

30 September 2015

Denmark: skilled labor shortages are causing controversy

Employers’ bodies and certain trade unions continue to sound alarm bells over a problem on the horizon (2020), namely the lack of skilled labor and they are calling for a variety of reforms to...

30 September 2015

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