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Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules
Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...
12 December 2013
EU: Parliament and Council reach agreement preserving supplementary pension rights for migrant workers
The European Parliament and Council of Ministers agreed on regulations allowing European workers settling in another EU country to preserve their occupational pension rights. The new law aims to...
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11 December 2013
Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement
After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...
11 December 2013
Germany: Federal Labor Court rules agency workers aren’t systematically entitled to a employment contract, even if they perform an assignment that isn’t “temporary”
In a long-awaited decree rendered on December 10, the Federal Labor Court (BAG) gave satisfaction to an employer who refused to recruit a temporary worker assigned to the company for several...
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11 December 2013
Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry
On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...
11 December 2013
Slovakia: new rules extending application of higher-level collective agreements
A controversial amendment to the collective bargaining act overcame the President’s veto and is going into force on January 1, 2014. The law will now provide for the possibility for a...
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10 December 2013
EU: interview of Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), on social dumping
Following the agreement reached by the Council of EU Ministers on posted workers, Dominique Campogrande, Director of Social Affairs at the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC), is...
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10 December 2013
Great Britain: groundbreaking deal in working conditions and job security at the now privatised postal operator, Royal Mail
The now privatised Royal Mail has agreed in principle a ground-breaking new agreement on terms and conditions of employment with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for the company’s 139,000...
10 December 2013
Belgium: draft social agreement on the restructuring of ArcelorMittal’s Liege sites
After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains...
10 December 2013
EU: snatched compromise on the charged issue of “posted workers”
After a last battle on the proposal concerning the implementation of the posted workers directive (96/71/EC), the 28 Ministers of Labor managed to break the deadlock, during their meeting on...
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10 December 2013
EU: Uni Europa union federation adopts strategy for graphical industry
At a recent conference, UNI Europa Graphical defined its union strategy for the two years to come, until its next convention in 2015. Amending the strategy adopted in 2011, European graphical...
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9 December 2013
United States: the debate over the minimum wage increase is open again
It wasn’t the workers’ mobilizations at Walmart or fast-food chains, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), that brought the debate over the minimum wage increase back to...
9 December 2013
Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway terminates contract with Portuguese subcontractor because of wage dumping
Following an investigation by the 3F union journal gathering material about the violation of Danish collective agreements by Cinterex, the Portuguese company, a major subcontractor in the...
9 December 2013
Great Britain: unions win several battles to organize cleaning workers in London
Two unions are involved: the largest public sector union (and the second biggest overall union), Unison, and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). They don’t have the same methods but...
9 December 2013
Germany: Sitech Sitztechnik, the car part manufacturing and a Volkswagen branch, signs agreement on temporary work in line with the parent company’s temporary charter
On December 6, the IG-Metall union announced that it had reached, after “difficult and lengthy negotiations.” A collective agreement on appeal to temporary work with Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, a...
6 December 2013
India: only 34 percent of young graduates are work-ready
According to the “India Skill Report 2014,” a wide survey on youth employability carried out among 100,000 students and 100 employers published last week, two thirds of young Indian graduates...
6 December 2013
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
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