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A law on sexual harassment of women on the workplace came into force on December 9, 2013 in India. It notably provides for the creation of internal committees on sexual harassment in all...

8 April 2014

Germany: unions give Chinese investors positive grades

According to an analysis published on March 25 by the Hans-Böckler Foundation, close to unions, more and more German businesses are taken over by Chinese investors. And the surprising fact for...

8 April 2014

Baltic countries: Estonian and Latvian financial unions sign cooperation agreement

Latvijas Finanšu nozares arodbiedrību (Latvian financial union, FNA) and Eesti Finantssektori Töötajate Liit (Estonian financial union, EFL) announced, on March 31, a new cooperation agreement...

7 April 2014

Sweden: creation of a wage guarantee fund for subcontracting workers in construction

The agreement reached on March 31 between Byggnads (construction workers’ union) and Sveriges Byggindustrier (Swedish construction firms) helped avoid a strike announced as the biggest in the...

7 April 2014

Italy: ILO suggests that government brings provision excluding unions that haven’t signed collective agreements from representation in line with international standards on union freedom

The conflict between Fiat and the CGIL’s metalworkers’ union (Fiom) had an impact at several levels. Trying to jostle social relations practices, the carmaker also started a legal battle, which...

7 April 2014

Great Britain: after a 5-year battle, Ford agrees to compensate ex-workers transferred to Visteon for their pension entitlement drop

After a 5-year campaign organized by the Unite union, punctuated by demonstrations, marches and lobbies and political pressure as well as legal action, Visteon workers secured a settlement from...

7 April 2014

Volkswagen: global works council and Scania unions reach deal giving the latter codetermination rights in case the takeover is successful

On April 2, Volkswagen’s global committee announced the signing of an agreement with the 4 unions at its Scania subsidiary in order to “save jobs in the company” within the framework of the German...

7 April 2014

France: first ruling on the obligation to translate documents sent to the WC into French

On March 19, the Court of Appeal of Versailles issued a decree stating that a works council consulted about a planned transfer has the right to request, with an injunction, that documents be...

4 April 2014

Denmark: government forced to review regulations to combat social dumping in road transport following the European Commission’s notice.

The standards adopted in September by the Danish Ministry of Transportation to stopillegal navigation were short-lived. In January, the European Commission gave notice to Denmark, causing the...

4 April 2014

Brazil: in 2013, most wage increases were above inflation

The collective negotiations carried out in 2013 mostly led to wage increases above inflation, revealed the Inter Trade Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (Dieese) in its...

4 April 2014

Great Britain: the government is ready to step back on employment tribunal fees

A Minister said that the Cameron team is allegedly thinking about trimming the fees recently introduced to relieve employment tribunals, as unions say they have actually emptied them.

3 April 2014

Austria: banking industry negotiates 2.15 percent wage increase with the crisis in Eastern Europe in the background

Only 4 meetings (1 in 2013) were necessary for the social partners in the Austrian banking industry to reach, on the early morning of Tuesday, April 1, an agreement providing for an average 2.15...

3 April 2014

Tunisia: on the path to flexicurity?

On January 29, the IMF allowed the payout of the 2nd part of the standby arrangement signed in June 2013 for 329.1 billion SDRs (Special Drawing Rights). The total amount reaches 1.146 billion...

3 April 2014

Argentina: in spite of the wage agreement in the metal industry, several unions are calling for a general strike on April 10

Joint bargaining is very tense, with the announcement of a general strike and the threat of numerous mobilization actions. Whereas the official union praises the agreement reached in the metal...

3 April 2014

Germany: ‘grand coalition’ government adopts introduction of statutory universal minimum wage of €8.5/hour

Angela Merkel’s grand coalition, gathered at a cabinet meeting today, April 2, agreed, for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany, to the introduction of statutory...

2 April 2014

France: 72 days to the introduction of the single database for employee representatives

A discreet theme of the labor market reform of June 2013, the single database for economic and employment information (Base de Données économiques et sociales Unique, BDU) is a technical and legal...

2 April 2014

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