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EU: The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) strengthens its position on an optional legal framework for company transnational negotiations
In March the ETUC adopted a resolution endorsing an optional legal framework for company transnational negotiations. It hopes that defined legal frameworks will eliminate uncertainties and that...
14 October 2014
Italy: conflict escalates at the ThyssenKrupp plant in Terni
After last week’s negotiations failed over a new industrial plan for the ThyssenKrupp Accial Speciali Terni (AST-TK) site in Umbria, workers have started a week of strike action set to culminate...
14 October 2014
Netherlands: widespread use of wage cuts and demotions by HR departments and company leaders
An annual survey of 700 Dutch company leaders and HR departments covering HR policies, conducted by Berenschot in cooperation with the payroll services provider ADP, shows that employers continue...
13 October 2014
Great Britain: thousands of British workers on the streets to demand higher wages
This week, large numbers of Britain’s public sector workers are set to demonstrate for higher pay. Unprecedented since the Thatcher era, the week of industrial action will culminate on Saturday...
13 October 2014
Great Britain: the GMB union pushes for a decent living wage
The GMB general union, the third biggest union with just over 610,000 members, is campaigning for a £10 per hour ‘living wage’. The campaign was launched at its 2014 congress in June and is now...
10 October 2014
EU: Jean-Claude Juncker has a delicate balancing act between investment spending and budget discipline
The European Commission’s new future President has committed to both spending 300 billions euros to stimulate economic growth and also balancing the books. He announced that during the European...
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10 October 2014
Netherlands: the federation of private sector halts the FNV transformation project
The transformation projects for the largest central Dutch union, the FNV, (c.f. article No. 8637) has stalled. Although it was aiming to merge its main sectoral federations so as to create a...
9 October 2014
Italy: Renzi’s ‘Jobs Act’ gets through the Senate after a confidence vote
After a day full of argument, Matteo Renzi won the vote of confidence in the Senate on bill that enables the government to overhaul the Italian labor market. The day before the prime Minister met...
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9 October 2014
Great Britain: starting gun fires for a wide-ranging review on employment status and rights
After the government’s recent review of zero hours contracts it now intends to examine employers’ rights in order to simplify and clarify the current various employment statuses (worker, employee...
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9 October 2014
Corporate Practice: how the REWE group and DZ bank are helping employees to reconcile their careers and caring for a dependent parent
At a time when the German Minister for Families is working on a “draft law aimed at better reconciling family life, care for a dependent parent, and ones professional career”, several large German...
9 October 2014
Belgium: the future government details the social reforms in its government program
In the evening of Tuesday October 7, the four negotiating political parties reached an agreement to form a government, a little more than four months after the general election. The main thrusts...
8 October 2014
Netherlands: transformation of the FNV trade union confederation is well underway
The country’s strongest trade union the FNV is going through a period of transition, ever since the deep crisis in 2011, which revealed internal weaknesses and which led the organisation to ...
8 October 2014
Prosegur: UNI Global has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate recent attacks on unionists in both Colombia and Peru
On October 7, a delegation from UNI Global led by General Secretary Philip Jennings filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council to denounce human rights violations that may have...
8 October 2014
Argentina: unions and the parliamentary opposition view the new Civil Code as a threat to workers’ rights
On October 1, Argentina’s parliamentary majority voted for the unification of the former Civil and Commercial Codes, considered “too archaic and not relevant to Argentina’s modern society”. The...
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7 October 2014
United States: a trade union for the Mercedes plant in Alabama
After spending time unionizing the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee the United Auto Workers are now setting their sights on the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama be opening a local...
7 October 2014
Canada: the Ontario Ministry of Labour blitzes illegal internships
Unpaid internships are increasingly widespread in Canada and are for the most part totally illegal. Following a series of press reports about businesses using this unlawful practice, the Ontario...
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7 October 2014
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United Kingdom: government urged to legislate against forced labour
After consulting victims, businesses and NGOs, the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (IASC) has published a report showing that the UK is lagging behind in the fight against forced labour. The...