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Austria: 4.15% wage increase in the temporary sector
4.15% and new minimum wages. 65,000 Austrian agency workers are going to receive a 4.15% wage increase on January 1, 2012, for one year. Regular bonuses will also be increased in the same...
28 November 2011
EU: premises of European social dialogue in ICT SMEs
social partners – Uni Europa for employees and PIN-SME for SMEs – have been meeting. They are hoping to lay down the foundation for European social dialogue in the future, in a field...
28 November 2011
Romania: employers and unions sign social agreement to engage in social dialogue irrespective of the public powers
organization, and the five trade union confederations lay down the foundation for social dialogue since they couldn’t be heard by the government. Thus, at the end of October, they signed a...
28 November 2011
Portugal: unions demand the resumption of dialogue with the government after successful general strike
General strike. The CGTP (close to the Communist Party) and the UGT (moderate) organized, on Thursday, November 24, a 24-hour general strike to reject the austerity measures provided for in the...
25 November 2011
Denmark: government introduces draft pension reforms in Parliament
Transposing the agreement of May 13 (see our dispatch No. 110337) signed between the parties of the previous government – made up of the Conservative Party (Venstre Konservative) and of the...
24 November 2011
Finland: after several months of tough negotiations, sectoral agreements are reached on the basis of the framework agreement the social partners signed in October at national level
Employers accepted to negotiate in the end and, after a few bumps when the talks were suspended, a deal was stricken on October 13. In addition to political and union pressure, another element...
24 November 2011
United States: retail employees denounce sacrificing Thanksgiving for Black Friday
employees have had to get up in the middle of the night between Thanksgiving and ‘Black Friday’ to open stores before dawn for the most important shopping day of the year, opening the...
24 November 2011
Great Britain: government releases draft Labor Law reform
ng more flexible layoffs in SMEs with 10 employees and less; reducing the consultation period for mass layoffs; introducing “protected conversations” between employees and employers;...
24 November 2011
Companies: six telecom multinationals launch human rights initiative
g in telephony met to work together on Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility. These businesses are Teliasonera, Telenor, Vodafone, Telefonica, Nokia Siemens and Alcatel. Ewa...
EU: modifying its previous case law, the ECJ limits the possibility for employees to accumulate entitlements to paid annual leave during absence for illness
to contain the impact of one of its case laws, the mostly vividly criticized by employers. In a ruling rendered in early 2009, the European judges laid down the principle that the national...
23 November 2011
Italy: Fiat terminates all collective agreements to be free to negotiate a single agreement for the group
With the termination notified yesterday, the Italian carmaker is seeking to “harmonize company and territorial conventional rules which followed one another and make them consistent and compatible...
22 November 2011
Germany: new steel collective agreement provides for a 3.8% increase and the recruitment of apprentices
3.8% increase. “It was a ‘tough start’ but we got an excellent result” rejoiced Oliver Burkhard, leader of the IG-Metall in North Rhine-Westphalia. Reminding the uncertain character of the...
22 November 2011
International: according to KPMG, CSR reporting has become the de facto law for business
cabinet has been doing an international survey on reporting in terms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The 2011 edition shows a general increase in the phenomenon, and mostly that large...
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22 November 2011
Italy: Luxottica’s company agreement tests “family job sharing”
“Bank of hours” for parents. Throughout this agreement, employees planning on having a baby may put unused leaves, overtime and flexibility hours they usually turn into remuneration on a “bank of...
22 November 2011
Italy: measures affecting the labor world in the Monti administration’s program
he Italian Parliament, with a record approval rate. Based on three pillars – “budget austerity, growth and equity” – his program aims to brave the pension reform, to reform...
21 November 2011
Germany: GDL train driver ends conflict with four private rail companies
Compromise. After 10 months of bargaining, massive warning strikes and a mediation procedure which lasted for 11 weeks, run by Georg Milbradt, former Prime Minister of Saxony, the GDL and four...
21 November 2011
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Spain: already well on the way to pay transparency?
Spain is preparing for the implementation of its national law transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, which will take effect on 7 June 2026. The legislation marks another step forward in...
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Italy: decree-law adopted to increase workplace safety
On 28 October, the Italian cabinet adopted a decree-law on health and safety at work, aimed at preventing and reducing accidents. The text addresses both the powers and actions of supervisory...
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EU: Court of Justice largely upholds directive on adequate minimum wages
On 11 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union upheld most of the directive on adequate minimum wages, rejecting Denmark’s claim that it infringed on national sovereignty over wage...
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Romania: parents of children with disabilities granted up to eight days of remote work per month
On 9 October, the Romanian parliament adopted a bill aiming to bolster support for parents of children with disabilities up to the age of 18. The legislation, which came into force on 12 October...
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mind RH analysis – Initial findings from CSRD social indicators
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Germany: report previews draft bill to transpose EU Pay Transparency Directive
On Friday 7 November, Germany’s commission for a 'less bureaucratic implementation' of the EU Pay Transparency Directive — made up of employer and trade union representatives — submitted its...
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