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Great Britain: coming mandatory transparency on the place women have in large businesses
From October 2013, companies listed on the London Stock Exchange will have to include in their annual report the number of women in senior management or on the boards as well as the total...
Germany: Daimler management and Sindelfingen works council end conflict of unprecedented intensity
Close-to-perfect agreement.  It all started in September with a routine operation: the management was preparing to change the Mercedes S-Class in 2013.  Since changes like this usually lead to a...
Eurosport: global agreement on fundamental labor rights
On October 12, the management of the special interest channel belonging to TF1 group signed, with UNI Global Union, a global agreement on fundamental labor rights. The union says this agreement is...
EU: European Trade Union Confederation calls for day of action and solidarity on November 14
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) called for a European day of action on November 14 against the austerity policies in force in the EU and for a Social Compact for Europe. (Ref. 120617)
Italy: CGIL organizes national demonstration with employees of ailing businesses
Two years after the big demonstration against the Berlusconi government on November 27, 2010, the CGIL will occupy the Piazza San Giovanni in Rome on October 20 to "bring labor back on top of the...
Poland: government reveals 2013 social program
eral months, Prime Minister Donald Tusk finally gave his general policy speech in the Diet on October 12. Social measures include bringing maternity leave to one year in mid-2013, developing...
18 October 2012
Great Britain: low impact of the independence of Scotland on industrial relations and employment law
The Scottish and British governments have agreed the terms of a referendum in 2014 on whether Scotland should become a separate country with its own independent government and state. This raises...
Italy: government further “simplifies” safety at work regulations
On October 16, the Council of Ministers adopted new "simplifying" measures for businesses. They affect, among other things, planning, infrastructures, environmental improvement or even health and...
Germany: collective bargaining starts in the textile and clothing industry in western Germany
A few hours to the official start of the negotiations in the textile and clothing industry in western Germany, on October 17 at 2 pm, the IG-Metall metalworkers' union repeated its claims for the...
Italy: Wind, the telephone company, signs an agreement with unions on a new strategic plan to improve competitiveness and maintain employment
network management and handling, affecting about 1,600 workers, Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA agreed, in January, after the Ministry for Economic Development stepped in, to suspend this decision and...
Companies: study on the failure to apply international framework agreements and possible solutions from the Indian factories (Pune) of Volkswagen, Daimler and Bosch
the think-tank of the IG-Metall German union, published in September a case study entitled “Strengthening trade union networks through international framework agreements.” From a case...
Canada: Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada and Canadian Auto Workers merge
These two big unions recently announced a merger and should soon represent over 300,000 employees. The new organization, which has yet to settle on a name, will be the largest private sector...
International: Adidas wants to create assistance fund for textile workers in Asia with sports equipment manufacturers
Continuous critic over the working conditions at the subcontractors working for big textile firms, notably in Bangladesh and Indonesia, has caused Adidas, the German company and second largest...
16 October 2012
Greece: new minimum wage cut and working time adjustments in the offing
The reforms implemented in February 2012 made the relations between employees and employers more flexible, but the country is still suffering from low competitiveness and record unemployment –...
Italy: Sandvik’s agreement in Rovereto combines flexibility and innovative family policy
In Rovereto, on August 31, the management of Sandvik, the Swedish precision engineering giant, signed with the regional representatives of the Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil unions and its Unitary...
Norway: agreement ends 9-day strike in energy industry
Tough negotiations.  The agreement was reached after a strike movement with a high turnout in the companies concerned and the threat of another wave of work stoppages, which “is quite rare in...
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