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The major supermarket chain, Tesco, and the Community union have signed what the union calls ‘a ground breaking partnership agreement to improve conditions in the UK garment supply chain’.

8 January 2015

Great Britain: Post Office agrees a three-year pay and conditions deal with some of its workers

The Post Office, a state company, and the CWU communications union have agreed a new three year pay and conditions agreement for the 2,000 workers employed by the company in its Admin and Supply...

7 January 2015

Germany: on January 1 the new controversial law on a national minimum wage came into force and continues to divide opinion

After years of debate, on January 1 Germany finally implemented its first-ever blanket national minimum wage set at 8.5 euros (before tax) an hour. Previously employers and unions had...

6 January 2015

Great Britain: a fresh approach to help employees return to work faster after periods of illness

The UK government’s Fit for Work program aims to sharply reduce absenteeism levels. The program due to roll out in early 2015 will assist employees on long-term sick leave return to work quicker.

6 January 2015

United States: NRLB general counsel brings proceedings against McDonald’s as a putative joint employer of its franchises’ employees

On 19 December, the general counsel's office of the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency in charge of monitoring trade union relations, announced that it had issued complaints...

5 January 2015

Italy: final approval of 2015 Stability Law provisions

On 22 December, the Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the 2015 Stability Law, which the Senate had approved the week prior through a vote of confidence amongst great confusion. The...

5 January 2015

Slovenia: the cost of student work is made more expensive in order to lessen competition with regular employment choices

The Slovene Parliament enacted a law (by amending the Fiscal Balance Act) that will significantly increase costs of student work with a view to reducing differences between regular work and...

19 December 2014

Belgium: the social partners conclude a series of ‘mini-agreements’ restarting a stalled social consultation process

On December 18, representatives of both the unions and employers’ bodies came back to the negotiation table and came closer over the issue of separate employee blue collar | white collar status...

19 December 2014

Spain: CEOE the employers confederation, currently tarnished over corruptions scandals re-elects its president for another term by a very slim majority

On December 17, Juan Rosell the 58 year old Catalan businessman and President of the CEOE since 2010 was reconfirmed as President for a further four year term. He garnered 345 out of the 768...

18 December 2014

Germany: Deutsche Bahn and the GDL union find a basis for negotiations and defuse the social conflict tracking the rail sector

The all out strike for German rail workers set for January 2015 is off. Management at Deutsche Bahn (DB) and the train drivers union (GDL) made the announcement on Wednesday December 17. This was...

18 December 2014

EU: CJEU rules that obesity constituting a disability can fall within the scope of Community law on non-discrimination

In a judgment handed down today December 18, the CJEU confirmed that EU law does not consider obesity itself as grounds for discrimination. Nonetheless when obesity constitutes a disability, then...

18 December 2014

Russia: lower real wages for 2015 are a worrying sign

In Russia, social crisis is waiting in the wings. The currency (RUB, ruble) is collapsing as oil prices plummet and Western sanctions linked to the Ukraine situation take effect. Since the start...

17 December 2014

Sainsbury’s and the GLA team up to train product suppliers identify cases of employee exploitation

The state body, Gangmasters Licensing Authority, has announced that it is working with the major supermarket chain, Sainsbury’s, to train staff to identify employee exploitation in the supply...

17 December 2014

EU: the European Commission presents its work plan for 2015

Yesterday, December 16 the President of the European Commission presented its work plan for 2015. Jean-Claude Juncker contained the plan to 23 initiatives. From amongst the priorities is youth...

17 December 2014

Germany: Amazon, under pressure from Verdi strike action, falls back on its Polish distribution centers to ensure Christmas packages are delivered on time

Verdi, the German services union, which has since spring 2013 being trying to get Amazon to sign a collective agreement took the decision to hit hard with its biggest strike action at the company...

16 December 2014

Prosegur: the company is temporarily suspended from an ILO program in Colombia

Prosegur is the world no 3 in the private security sector (manned guarding, cash in transit, technology & alarms). The company currently employs more than 155,000 across four continents...

16 December 2014

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