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Last week the Dutch Parliament voted in favor of a law set to combat the practice of non-payment of the legal or regular minimum wage as well as social contributions (Wet Aanpak Schijnconstructies...

10 March 2015

EU: formal cooperation is launched between the European Transport Workers Federation (ETF) and the EU enforcement organization (ECR)

On March 04, 2015, both the ETF and the ECR signed a declaration of intent and a work program for 2015. Both parties are hoping to simplify, improve, and make fairer, how social and transport...

10 March 2015

Italy: the Fit-Cisl union has received enough public signatures to put its draft law to parliament over new strike regulations for local public transport

Rebalancing the costs of strike action, currently receiving workers’ and travellers’ support, and reducing conflict. Thus are the goals of a ‘peoples’ draft law presented by the Fit-Cisl to the...

9 March 2015

Denmark: four large companies trial a new ‘strategic’ partnership with several job centers

Tryg, BRF Kredit, Danfoss, and Faick are currently four businesses trialing a strategic partnership with job centers to bolster co-operation and help both those on benefits get back to work as...

9 March 2015

Belgium: Bpost studies the notion of annualized hours for its mail division

Since January 2015, the Belgian postal distribution division has been in discussions with unions over annualized working hours as a way of improving workload management. Weekly hours would remain...

9 March 2015

Sweden: the LO (blue collar) and TCO (white collar, professional, highly qualified) are running neck and neck…

“Vi ökar igen!” “We are still developing” enthused Eva Nordmark –TCO (Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees) President, on February 16, when she announced a 3% rise in membership numbers...

9 March 2015

Germany: the Bundestag passes a law on gender quotas for German companies’ supervisory boards.

On Friday March 06, following years of controversy, the Bundestag voted by a large majority to pass a law that introduces a quota for female representation on the supervisory boards of Germany’s...

6 March 2015

EU: the European Commission seeks to revive social dialogue at both national and European levels

On Thursday March 05, all the European social partners gathered together in Brussels for a high-level conference hosted by the EU Commission called ‘A New Start for Social Dialogue’. Speaking to...

6 March 2015

United States: Congress opposes a proposed NLRB regulation on unionization

The war of attrition being waged against the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board) continues. The majority led Senate adopted a proposition that blocks the NLRB’s December 2014 new union election...

6 March 2015

Spain: the CCOO union adopts a code of conduct aimed at protecting itself from further controversy

In response to several unsavory episodes involving CCOO heads, its confederal council has approved an internal code of conduct. The document addresses a number of changes in internal operations...

5 March 2015

Sweden: a new collective agreement for the banks

On March 02 and following four months of negotiations, Finansförbundet (Financial Sector Union of Sweden) and BAO (Employers’ Organization of the Swedish Banking Institutions) signed a new pay and...

5 March 2015

Germany: an ‘employers’ study concludes that trade unions have indeed made a comeback

Since the financial crisis back in 2006, German trade unions have extended both their presence in German companies and their political influence at national level. They are now reconciled with...

4 March 2015

Great Britain: significant agreement over industrial relations at Royal Mail

Barely a year after signing a landmark agreement in February 2014, both the privatized British postal delivery group Royal Mail and the CWU union appear, in Lionel Sampson’s (CWU) words, to have...

4 March 2015

Germany: digitization is a massive challenge facing HR units (feedback from the German Association for Personnel Management congress)

How is the rapid rise in digitization changing business models and value chains? What is the impact on how work is organized? What is HR’s role in the face of the challenges that the digital...

3 March 2015

Great Britain: the GMB succeeds in signing more new union recognition agreements

Data shows that unions continue to sign new recognition agreements and gain new representation and bargaining rights for their members. Even if the actual number of signed agreements is lower than...

3 March 2015

Germany: another setback for the draft law on occupational health and safety

The new workplace law (Arbeitsstätteverordnung) will not come into force as scheduled on March 01, 2013. The German press reported severe criticism by business leaders that pressured the...

2 March 2015

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