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SCOR: signs a charter on professional equality with the EWC
On January 29, the reinsurance group together with the Common European Companies Committee (SCOR comprises three European Companies – Societas Europeae) signed a charter on professional equality. ...
29 January 2015
France: the complaint filed by French NGOs against Auchan for misleading commercial practices, following the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, has been dismissed
At the end of January, the prosecutor’s office in Lille dismissed the complaint lodged against Auchan (French supermarket chain) for non-respect of its ethical commitments in the Rana Plaza...
Germany: renewed discord within the grand coalition government over the minimum wage
Barely four weeks after Germany’s historic move to introduce a universal national minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour, the parliamentary Christian-Democrat group, the CDU/CSU, unanimously adopted...
29 January 2015
United States: California adds another level of social protection for contract workers
In California the final employer of contract workers will now be liable to those workers to respect working time, pay their wages, and also compensation insurance cover, in addition to their...
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29 January 2015
Great Britain: the GMB and Unite unions intervene to save fracking
Although during the summer British unions had argued for the implementation of a united opposition to the controversial issue of shale gas activities, the country’s largest union Unite, together...
28 January 2015
Turkey: an all out metal workers strike is set to begin on January 29
Birleşik Metal-İş the Turkish metals union federation and affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union has announced strike action for the metals sector for January 29. Strikers will protest the...
28 January 2015
Italy: a majority of Telecom Italia workers have rejected a restructuring agreement for its Caring Services division that was seen as a potential means of remote monitoring
More than half of Telecom Italia’s workers who voted, have rejected an agreement between the company and the trade unions; SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl, UIlcom-UIl, to restructure the Caring Services...
28 January 2015
Great Britain: Brent Council subsidizes resident companies to pay staff the London living wage
Labour controlled councils in London are following the lead of Glasgow city council and thirty other Labour controlled councils in offering companies incentives to become ‘living wage employers’...
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27 January 2015
The “modernisation of social dialogue” in France: an agreement was always highly unlikely
On January 22 the French social partners left the negotiation table without concluding any agreement on reforms to the current system of employee representation (see article n°8840). Four months...
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26 January 2015
Greece: the new Syriza government looks to restore labor law and collective negotiations
The radical left Syriza party has just won an historic victory and may have to align with the Greek independent sovereign party to form a government. In September, Alexis Tsipras the Syriza party...
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26 January 2015
China: dramatic rise in social movement in 2014
According to data from the Hong Kong based NGO, China Labour bulletin, there were 569 incidents of social protest in the fourth quarter of 2014; more than three times as many as the same period in...
26 January 2015
Denmark: employers now have to warn their staff of work related violence outside of normal working hours and also on the Internet
On January 22, the Danish parliament adopted changes to the law covering the workplace. These changes include creating a legal basis for extending companies’ obligations to warn employees of work...
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26 January 2015
Ikea: union recognition for KOOP-IS within the Ikea franchise in Turkey thanks to international trade union action
Turkish Ministry of Labour has recognised the trade union KOOP-IS within Mapa, the Ikea franchise in Turkey, allowing it to negotiate and sign collective agreements. The union recognition is the...
23 January 2015
France: breakdown in talks over modernizing social dialogue in businesses
On January 22 talks between the social partners over social dialogue broke down. Negotiations focusing on improving the efficiency of social dialogue had advanced to the stage of a reaching...
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23 January 2015
Canada: two company directors jailed after a worker dies
Two company directors of an Ontario based company have been jailed for 25 days after they pleaded guilty to negligence that led to death of an employee. Although not the first, this sentence...
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23 January 2015
Total: Global CSR agreement signed with IndustriALL Global Union
With already three European agreements under its belt, the oil giant Total signed its first global agreement with the global union federation on 22 January in Davos (Switzerland). This is a...
22 January 2015
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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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