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Dansk Industri (DI) and 3F’s Transportgruppe signed, on February 26, an agreement renewing the joint collective agreement (fællesoverenskomsten) for storekeepers, drivers and dockworkers. ...

28 February 2014

EU: ECJ rules, layoff benefits of part-time worker on parental leave to be calculated on a full-time basis

The decree rendered by the ECJ yesterday, February 27 confirms a first ruling rendered in 2009. It reminds that the benefits for laying a worker off during a period of part-time work within the...

27 February 2014

France: adoption of the law on vocational training, employment and social democracy

Yesterday, Thursday, February 27, the last phase (vote by the Senate) ended 6-7 months of negotiations and debates on the law reforming the vocational training system.

27 February 2014

Switzerland: social partners at La Poste Suisse SA maintain single framework agreement on working and pay conditions for all group undertakings

For statutory reasons, because Poste Suisse became a corporation of public law in July 2013, the social partners had to renegotiate the collective labor agreement (CCT) that supervises working...

27 February 2014

Great Britain: in spite of the crisis, Low Pay Commission recommends moderate minimum wage increase

The Low Pay Commission has just suggested that the government increase minimum wage by 3 percent, the highest rate since the crisis. Some unions view it as an insult but employers are reassured –...

27 February 2014

EU: the draft directive on non-financial reporting is on the right tracks to be adopted before the summer

On February 26, COREPER, the group of diplomats representing the 28 Member States, adopted the compromise on the draft directive on non-financial reporting, negotiated between the European...

26 February 2014

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...

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...

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...

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

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