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Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate Brazil : study reveals reasons for high labor turnover rate
The significant rate of labor turnover in Brazil is caused by several factors, such as short-term contracts, seasonality of raw material, and economic cycles and employers' free reign to dismiss...
13 November 2014
United States: the United Automobile Workers is to represent workers at Volkswagen Chattanooga, but will most likely not be the only one
The UAW, the United Automobile Workers, will set up shop in the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the south of the United States, following the company’s establishment of a...
12 November 2014
Netherlands: works councils and confidentiality
On 10 October 2014, the Social Economic Council (SER), the tripartite body that acts as the government’s main advisory body on works council issues and that monitors the execution and enforcement...
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12 November 2014
Great Britain: deceptively positive employment growth?
Only one in forty new British jobs created since the recession is on a full-time contract: a shocking piece of data reported on November 12 by the TUC trade union confederation. This comes face to...
12 November 2014
Germany: management at IG Metall demands a wage rise of up to 5.5% over 12 months
Despite a backdrop of slowing growth in the German economy management at Germany’s biggest union IG Metall announced on Tuesday November 11 in Frankfurt that it will seek a wage rise of up to 5.5%...
11 November 2014
Italy: Eni has signed a memorandum of understanding on the ‘green conversion’ of its refinery in Sicily
Eni has signed an agreement with unions and both national and local authorities for the refinery’s ‘green conversion’ and a relaunch of the Gela area (Sicily). The unions are well satisfied...
11 November 2014
Canada: Ontario votes in a series of measures to protect ‘vulnerable’ workers.
Some of the measures voted in by Canada’s most populace province on November 6 include indexing the minimum wage to the Consumer Price Index and extending protection for temporary recruitment...
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11 November 2014
The free trade agreement between Switzerland and China includes standards over social and labor rights
The China-Switzerland free trade agreement officially entered into effect on July 1 2014 is the second such agreement that the Chinese authorities have signed with a European country and the first...
Italy: the IREN group, a services company working with local authorities, has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’
The IREN group, the fourth largest services company (4,5000 employees) providing services to the Italian local authorities has reached an agreement on the ‘intergenerational pact’. This pact will...
10 November 2014
Transdev: the EWC brings an action to suspend the group’s decision over one of its’ French subsidiaries
On November 7 the Nanterre district court heard a submission for an emergency interim ruling sought after by the Transdev EWC against management of the transport group for non-respect of the right...
10 November 2014
Acciona, Dragados and Sacyr: three international framework agreements signed in Spain’s construction industry
On October 29 the Building and Wood Worker's International Federation (BWI) signed new International Framework Agreements with the management of three Spanish international construction companies...
10 November 2014
EU: an ETUC resolution for a new framework covering employee involvement in different European company forms (SE, etc.)
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) Executive Committee meeting on 21 and 22 October adopted the resolution entitled: Towards a new framework for more democracy at work” pushes for ...
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10 November 2014
Canon: establishment of a new European Works Council
Four years after Canon bought the Dutch company Océ NV, a new agreement that was signed before the summer in accordance with article 13 of the Directive Recast, (treating changes to a company’s...
10 November 2014
Belgium: an historic demonstration in Brussels of 120,000 people protesting the center-right governments austerity measures
This Thursday November 6 the common union front assembled more than 120,000 supporters in Brussels for its first national demonstration protesting against measures that were fixed by government...
7 November 2014
United States: the International Franchise Association demands explanation on the application of McDonalds joint-employer status
For the business franchise lobby group, the argument underlying the National Labor Relations Board ruling that McDonalds should have joint-employer status with its franchisees does not hold...
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7 November 2014
Denmark: a fresh initiative to support businesses transition fatigued workers into new positions
A new measure will allow businesses and institutions in those sectors characterized by arduous working conditions to obtain financial support that will help them transition fatigued workers to new...
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6 November 2014
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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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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025