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Canada: wage increases averaged 1.4 percent in 2013 (2.2 percent in the private sector)
The Canadian Ministry of Labor reported the major collective agreements in Canada for 2013 which produced an average wage increase of 1.4 percent, compared to the 1.7 percent increase in 2012 and...
26 February 2014
Italy: Matteo Renzi’s government to do labor market reform at once
The youngest President of the Council in the history of Italy, Matteo Renzi, 39, won the vote of confidence from the Chamber of Deputies (378 in favor to 220 against) after winning the Senate over...
26 February 2014
Finland: first ruling recognizes the validity of a collective agreement negotiated by a yellow union
On January 31, the Helsinki Court of First Instance pronounced a verdict in favor of a company handing out flyers and free newspapers, which applied a collective agreement signed with a union...
26 February 2014
Spain: government launches reduced social contributions – €100/month – to boost recruitments
Mariano Rajoy, head of the Spanish government, announced on February 25 at the big Parliament debate on the state of the nation, a series of measures designed to boost the employment market. One...
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25 February 2014
Germany: Labor Minister Andrea Nahles launches vast consultation of the social partners about the introduction of statutory minimum wage
After getting, at the end of January, the government to adopt her first highly-controversial bill on the pension reform, Andrea Nahles, SPD Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, is now...
25 February 2014
France: the Act on the obligation to look for a buyer when closing a site is adopted
The “Bill aiming to give prospects to the real economy and industrial employment” was permanently adopted by the National Assembly on February 24. It provides that businesses, or group of...
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24 February 2014
Germany: with GOVET, the country rationalizes its advice structures to sell its vocational training system abroad
Since the last crisis, we’ve seen that young people’s access to the labor world was much safer in countries with a “dual” vocational training system: Germany, Austria, the Netherlands or...
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24 February 2014
Spain: gender equality, the victim of the crisis and labor law reform
Seven years after the Equality Act came into force, forcing businesses to implement gender equality measures, representatives from the CCOO and UGT unions are observing difficulties in the field...
24 February 2014
Australia: Rio Tinto signs landmark agreement with AWU union
After several years of conflict, Rio Tinto and the Australian Workers’ Union reached a landmark agreement following a request made by employees. The deal aims to maintain job security to the...
24 February 2014
Italy: Alitalia and unions sign agreement to manage ‘surplus’ staff
Alitalia and the Filt-CGIL, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti and UGLtrasporti unions signed an agreement on the management of the 1,900 ‘surplus’ workers listed by the group. The solution chosen to avoid...
21 February 2014
Germany: real wages went down by 0.2 percent in 2013
According to the latest figures published by the Federal Statistics Agency (Destatis), for the first time since 2009, German wages are down. Indeed, in 2013, inflation (1.5 percent) was higher...
20 February 2014
Great Britain: Atos criticized for work capability assessment awarded by the governement
In 2011, 10,600 people which Atos had not declared ‘unfit to work’ died within the next 6 weeks. It is after reminding this shocking number – confirmed by government statistics – that hundreds of...
20 February 2014
Denmark: hotel/catering social partners reach agreement renewing collective agreement
On February 16, the 3F Privat Service Hotel og Restauration union and Horesta for employers reached an agreement to renew the collective agreement in the hotel and catering industry. It covers...
20 February 2014
Spain: facing a boycott campaign, Coca Cola abandons layoffs but still shuts the 4 plants down
Nearly a month after Coca-Cola Iberian Partners announced that it would shutter 4 of its 11 plants, Coca Cola Spain is worried about the threat to boycott its protest and about growing social...
20 February 2014
United States: overview of the UAW’s defeat in VW’s Chattanooga plant
The UAW was supposed to win the election with flying colors. Never had a company’s management been so supportive of a union organizing its plant. And yet, on February 14, the results hit like a...
19 February 2014
France/Germany: French and German social partners issue proposals to upgrade and galvanize work-study vocational training systems
At the 16th Franco-German Ministerial Council, which took place in Paris on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 the German and French Ministers for Employment took stock of a series of proposals...
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19 February 2014
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