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Spain: 66 Spanish employees affected by the closure of the TK Galmed plant in Sagunto will be redeployed to ThyssenKrupp’s plants in Germany
The agreement was negotiated by the Spanish unions with the group’s European Works Council. For the first time, via a union agreement, ThyssenKrupp gives several Spanish employees the possibility...
11 September 2013
Italy: Ericsson and unions sign industrial plan deal
Ericsson Telecomunicazioni Spa and the SLC-CGIL, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom-Uil unions as well as the majority of unitary trade union representation bodies (RSU), signed a framework agreement on the...
10 September 2013
Great Britain: new, simpler labor law measures
Several measures from the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, adopted in April and aiming to unblock employment tribunal and prevent a boom in proceedings, came into force on July 29, 2013. ...
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10 September 2013
With Kununu portal, employees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can rate their employers
Like the web platforms allowing customers to say what they think about hotels or restaurants, Kununu portal gives employees, apprentices and applicants the possibility of reviewing their...
10 September 2013
United States: informal structure proposes to gather T-Mobile employees
The Communication Workers of America are having a hard time getting into T-Mobile and launched, with the support of their colleagues at Deutsche Telekom (Verdi), an informal structure to create a...
10 September 2013
GDF Suez: new EWC agreement uploaded
After Suez Environnement was “de-consolidated,” GDF Suez amended its EWC agreements at the end of May to take account of the impact this exit would have on the structure’s scope. Since the...
9 September 2013
Great Britain: government presents the outline of the reform of transfer of undertakings law
On September 5, Employment Minister Jo Swinson published her response to the consultation on the clarification of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE), which...
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6 September 2013
Italy: logistics, merchandise transport and shipping social partners renew national collective agreement
The 23 employers’ organizations (Assologistica, Conftrasporto, Fedespedi, Fai and Uitai, among others) in logistics, merchandise transport and shipping and the Filt-CGIL, Fit-Cisl and Uiltrasporti...
6 September 2013
Australia: labor law program of the main parties to the legislative election
Australians are going to renew their Parliament on Saturday, September 7. The Labor party, in power since 2007, is expected to lose and the Liberal-National coalition should win. Overview of the...
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6 September 2013
Great Britain: the GMB union is going to considerably reduce its involvement in the Labour Party
The Central Executive Council (CEC) of the GMB general union has voted to reduce its current level of membership affiliation to the Labour Party from 420,000 members to 50,000 members from 1...
5 September 2013
Finland: extremely moderated general framework agreement on pay subject to approval at sectoral level
After the first attempt failed last spring, the 3 union confederations and employers (confederation of industry, State and towns) finally signed, on August 30, a general pay deal called “Agreement...
5 September 2013
The European Commission published guides on the implementation of the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in several sectors – temporary work, ICT, and gas and oil
In June 2011, the United Nations adopted Guiding Principles (UNGP) on Business and Human Rights. Within the framework of its strategy to promote corporate social responsibility (CSR), the...
Italy: together, unions and employers call on government to adopt stability act boosting employment and growth
“A stability act for employment and growth” is the title of the documents signed on September 2 by Giorgio Squinzi, leader of Confindustria, and Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonanni and Luigi...
4 September 2013
Portugal: 40-hour work week for government workers
Government workers are going to work 40 hours a week instead of 35 before. The law amending working time in the public sector has come into force and will be applied at the end of September. ...
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4 September 2013
Germany: Daimler, Volkswagen…, controversy over abusive appeal to subcontracting catches up with German auto groups
While unions are calling for a law against excessive use of “service provision contracts” (Werkverträge), the Handelsblatt economic daily revealed, on September 2, that Volkswagen was apparently...
4 September 2013
Sustainable management practices: national answers to a global challenge?
The International Corporate Survey Barometer (ICSB) was published at the end of July 2013. This international sustainability barometer was introduced in 2012 by the Center for Sustainability...
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Spain: government approves creation of ‘intern status’
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The preparatory meeting ahead of the social conference on labour and pensions, which is set to decide on the pension system model and the funding thereof, was held on 4 November at France's labour...
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Luxembourg: two pension reform bills submitted to parliament
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Germany: bill adopted to step up fight against illegal employment
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France: TotalEnergies steps up commitment on disability
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