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Spain: in 2012, nearly one third of large businesses allegedly used internal flexibility to avoid layoffs
Encouraging internal labor flexibility has been one of the primary objectives of the latest labor reform. A year after the reform came into force, the Ministry of Employment and Social Security...
France: employment and training at the center of the government’s social roadmap
As expected, the second Social Conference, organized in Paris on June 20-21, was mostly a ‘warm-up lap’ for the government and the social partners before a series of negotiations on thorny issues...
Germany: 24-month pay deal in industrial cleaning
Yesterday, Thursday, June 20, the social partners in the industrial cleaning sector – the IG BAU construction union and the National Guild Association of the Building-Cleaning Trade (BIV) –...
Enel: new global framework agreement on fundamental social rights and establishment of a global works council
On June 14, Enel Group and IndustriAll Global Union, Public Services International (PSI) and the Filctem-CGIL, Flaei-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil Italian unions signed a global framework agreement.  In it...
EU: ECJ defines conditions for reviews of employees on parental leave whose position is removed
In a decree rendered today, June 20, the Luxembourg judges decided that, under Community law, when preparing the employee reviews within the framework of the cancelation of positions on economic...
20 June 2013
Great Britain: Royal Mail employees fight the government’s plans to sell the public company
Members of the CWU communications union have voted in a ballot by 92% on a 74% turnout to oppose the privatisation of Royal Mail through a boycott of competitors’ mail as well as through...
Spanish businesses are getting into 2.0 recruitment methods
Recruitment 2.0 has not been rapidly embraced by firms in Spain, a relatively recent phenomenon, but they are starting to (Ref.  130413)
Italy: Luxottica, once again a pioneer in terms of employee social protection
Strongly committed to CSR, Luxottica, the world leader in luxury spectacle trade, is breaking new barriers down in terms of corporate social protection.  Indeed, with a new agreement, it extends...
Germany: head of Porsche’s works council revives debate on “union bonuses” for IG-Metall members
Can/should collective agreements contain clauses granting advantages to affiliated workers alone?  By calling for an additional bonus for IG-Metall members in the next bargaining round in the...
Spain: graphic arts renew national collective agreement
On June 13, the FeS-UGT and CCOO unions and the FEIGRAF, FGEE and AFCO employers’ organizations signed the 23rd collective agreement for the graphic arts industry.  It will cover about 150,000...
United States: Court rejects obligation to notify workers of their rights to organize and bargain collectively
The Federal Agency in charge of regulating union rights in the US, the National Labor Relations Board, cannot require employers to notify workers of a right to be represented by a trade union and...
19 June 2013
International: UNI Graphical and Packaging defines new priority actions for its members
The Executive Committee of the UNI Graphical and Packaging international trade union recently defined new priorities for its affiliates across the globe.  UNI Graphical and Packaging represents...
EU: European Commission proposes network of public employment services
The European Commission proposes improving public employment services (PES) in the Member States to solve the issue of the 26 million jobseekers across the EU.  On Monday, June 17, European...
18 June 2013
EU: European Commission to propose communication on quality framework for socially responsible restructurings
It’s official.  The MEPs receive the Commission’s answer to the report calling for a legislative initiative on socially responsible restructurings and anticipation (known as the Cercas report). ...
18 June 2013
Germany: universal minimum wage at the heart of the election campaign
About 100 days to the German federal election, the issue of introducing universal minimum wage has been revived.  All political parties are now in favor of the introduction of minimum wage but not...
Austria: 2.7 percent wage increase at the Austrian post
The management of Österreichische Post AG (OPAG) and the Union of Post and Telecommunications Employees (GPF) reached an agreement, on Monday, June 17 in Vienna, for a 2.7 percent wage increase...
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