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On Sunday 26 October, Dilma Rousseff, from the Brazilian Worker’s Party, was re-elected as President by the country’s population, off the back of a political campaign led with real aggression...

27 October 2014

Great Britain: the government will end the practice of workers withdrawing their pension contributions in cash when they leave an employer

The government has brought forward to 2015 the virtual elimination of an existing possibility for workers, who often switch employers, to withdraw their pots of pensions contributions.This change...

24 October 2014

Alstom: the European Works Council makes its opinion on the sale of Alstom Power and Grid to General Electric subject to social guarantees

Whilst the European Works Council opinion on the sale of Alstom's energy business to the American, General Electric is expected on Tuesday October 28, employee representatives report significant...

24 October 2014

Great Britain: the government wants to get mothers back to work

A charm offensive to win votes? Mothers groups are nonetheless unconvinced by these announcements and numbers. Laura Perrins, from the campaign group Mothers at Home Matter said “If paid work is...

23 October 2014

Mexico: launch of an automotive related training program in partnership with Japan

Starting in 2015, four Mexican educational institutions will offer courses to train technicians and raise awareness of the Japanese work philosophy.

23 October 2014

Denmark: following a record compensation payout, unions prepare to review their strategy to combat sexual harassment in the workplace

3 million DKK (almost 403,000 euros) represents the amount of compensation awarded by the National Board of Industrial Injuries to a female victim of sexual harassment that it classed under the...

23 October 2014

Netherlands: new law will settle enforcement of pay and liability for abuses committed by subcontractors

A proposal for a new Act on combating fraudulent and fake companies has been handed over to the Council of State, the main advisory for legal affairs of the government. It will introduce a system...

22 October 2014

Great Britain: the CAC requires Fujitsu to provide information over working conditions at its information technology services subsidiary

The state body, the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), has declared in favour of Unite in its case against Fujitsu Services (FS) concerning the disclosure of information for the purposes of...

22 October 2014

Germany: after massive strike action by pilots and train drivers, Angela Merkel advocates a “single trade union” bill

Two days of train drivers’ strikes at Deutsche Bahn had barely come to a close at dawn on October 20 when a new 35-hour strike started up at Lufthansa called for by the pilots union Cockpit...

21 October 2014

Denmark: government presented draft law on the establishment of employee investment companies

On October 8, Henrik Sass Larsen, the Minister for Business and Growth presented a draft law on employee investment companies (medarbejderinvesteringsselskab: MS), which allows businesses in need...

21 October 2014

Sweden: employee representation on the Board of Directors is an underutilized prerogative

Unions have this right but they don’t use it. This is how the message from the PTK (Swedish Federation of Salaried Employees in Industry and Services grouping 25 unions) and Styrelseakademien (a...

21 October 2014

Corporate Practice: Daimler calls its pensioners back into service for special missions.

In Daimler they are called the ‘Space Cowboys’. Like with the Clint Eastwood film where 4 elderly retired astronauts are called back into service for a crucial mission (to save the earth)...

21 October 2014

Great Britain: the government not budging despite widespread historic unrest over salaries

Tens of thousands of British marchers hit the streets of London on Saturday October 18, answering a call to march by the TUC in a demand for higher wages. This unprecedented workers pressure...

20 October 2014

EU: social partners in the Food Agriculture and Tourism sector commit to apprenticeships and training

On October 16, the European social partners in the food and drink industry: FoodDrinkEurope (employers body) and EFFAT (trade union) presented a joint initiative to MEPs pledging their commitment...

20 October 2014

EU: Northern European countries not convinced by the implementation of a common Eurozone unemployment insurance program as an automatic stabilizer

Even though a Eurozone unemployment insurance project has been mentioned since the start of economic and monetary union in 1973, EU members have always swept this ‘too federalist’ issue under the...

20 October 2014

EU: national legislation may authorize an employer to order a part-time worker to return to full-time work

On October 15, the CJEU delivered a judgment in which it declares national legislation that allows an employer to order the conversion of working time from part-time to full-time without the...

17 October 2014

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