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Sweden: after executives, the trade federation strikes last-minute deal for employees
The agreement will run between April 1, 2012 and March 31, 2013.
17 April 2012
Great Britain: government spends GBP 1 billion to tackle youth unemployment
On April 2, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Minister for Employment Chris Grayling presented their new Youth Contract to tackle youth unemployment, which has been building up for much of the...
17 April 2012
Enel: EWC agreement renewed
Transnationality. The agreement signed on December 16 by Enel’s management, the EWC and the EPSU and EMCEF union organizations contains the definition given in Directive 2009/38 which provides...
17 April 2012
Portugal: shipyard staff gives summer holidays up to face production peak
Flexibility. The Workers’ Committee (CT) of the Viana do Castelo shipyard (ENVC) signed the company agreement maintaining production for August 2012. Usually, the shipyards are closed for two...
16 April 2012
EU: European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) and BusinessEurope respond to Green Paper on Restructurings
Enough good practices, now on to political action. This is the first message the European trade union organization wants to send the European Commission. It believes that the Green Paper, which...
13 April 2012
Italy: unitary CGIL, Cisl and Uil mobilization asking for solutions to the “tragic” consequences of the pension reform
Poste Italiane (which “expelled” nearly 5,000 seniors through the “family incentive,” i.e. the father or mother leaving their job with the promise that their child would get it), Alitalia (almost...
13 April 2012
Great Britain: Unite tries new campaign style at Mayr-Melnhof Packaging and Tulip
Unite members at MMP were sacked and locked out in mid-February after undertaking a number of one-day strikes over the company’s method of selection for the redundancies and the terms being...
12 April 2012
Germany: IG BCE chemistry union and Technikum temporary work agency create the first training fund for all agency workers
A company agreement… open to all sectors. The creation of the first Continuous Learning Fund for agency workers in Germany isn’t the result of sectoral negotiations with numerous partners but of...
12 April 2012
United States: minimum wage as a new campaign theme
The minimum wage increase is an increasingly popular theme in the American presidential campaign. Representatives from different labor unions (Service Employees International Union, Restaurant...
12 April 2012
Italy: new Peroni agreement characterized by flexibility and telework
One of “the best company agreements in the sector” is how Pietro Pellegrini, Uila-Uil national secretary, qualified the agreement. The latter was signed in the night of April 5 between Peroni...
11 April 2012
Germany: 6.5 percent increase for construction staff
Pilot agreement for the country. The agreement signed on March 30 by the social partners in Hessen for a 6.5 percent wage increase in the sector of construction and construction material...
11 April 2012
EU: Danish presidency has a hard time getting a bargaining mandate on the intra-corporate transfers directive
Targeted workers. The draft directive on intra-corporate transfers is still waiting on the table of the Council of EU Ministers. The text the European Commission proposed in July 2010 aims to...
11 April 2012
Netherlands: FNV union rejects pay freeze called for by the government and employers
The police are already waiting for the strike but civil servants are not the only targets of the Act in the offing imposing a freeze in all sectors for 30 months. And unions were not consulted...
10 April 2012
Sweden: new provisions on “emergency overtime” in the energy industry
wage increase, the new agreement signed on March 24 between the SEF union (Svenska Elektrikerförbundet) and the EFA energy employers’ organization (Energiföretagens...
10 April 2012
Brazil: unions say government’s manufacturing recovery program is not enough
20 percent cut to employers’ contributions. On April 3, President Dilma Rousseff presented a program to boost the industry – the Brazilian sector with the smallest growth, +0.3 percent in 2011 as...
10 April 2012
Portugal: early retirement impossible until 2014 and no 13th and 14th month bonuses for civil servants until 2015 now
A decree-law barring early retirement. On April 5, the Portuguese government passed a decree-law freezing the rules governing early retirement with immediate effect. The measure will be in force...
10 April 2012
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