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Morocco: new assistance to boost youth employment
yers’ organization recently signed a new agreement. For the permanent recruitment of a young people for more than 12 months on ANAPEC benefits (the National Agency for Promoting Employment...
EU: electricity social partners want to be closely involved with the ongoing “stress tests” in the nuclear industry
ean electricity social partners (Eurelectric for employers and EMCEF and EPSU for unions) met for a social dialogue meeting. The nuclear industry stood out with, among other things, a draft joint...
10 October 2011
Germany: IG-Metall Conference celebrates the success of its strategic shift
e, organized every four years, started on Sunday, October 9th in Lüdenscheid and will end on the evening of October 15th. The 481 delegates will have to vote nearly 500 motions. These include...
Hungary: government prepares reform to reduce the prerogatives and protection of employee representatives
tional Economy presented, last week, a tentative Labor Code reform envisaging the removal of layoff protection for some categories of employees (workers on parental leave, seniors, union...
EU: 3rd Uni Europa Congress calls for union for better action
ber 3-5 for the 3rd time, the Conference of the European services workers union, Uni Europa, introduced the “Union-Vision-Action” program for the next four years. For the organization...
10 October 2011
Germany: Deutsche Post extends Job Security Pact until 2015 but decreases entry level pay
Deutsche Post and the Verdi services' union agreed, on October 6th, on a series of measures allowing the company to better face market trends and the development of society. Key measures affect...
Sweden: Almega employers’ organization wants to upgrade collective agreements
ctive agreements” declared Almega, the key sectoral employers’ organization with 10,000 businesses in services, at its press conference on September 21st. In preparation for the coming...
Italy: Manageritalia and Confcommercio renew national collective agreement for service managers
Increased social protection, training and retraining for unemployed senior executives, incentives to appoint young people to managerial positions and a EUR 390 wage increase are the strong points...
United States: about fifteen unions show solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street has evolved. About 15 unions (SEIU, CWA, UAW, United Federation of Teachers...) declared solidarity with the young protesters who have been occupying Zuccotti Park, close to...
Austria: unprecedented clash in metal collective bargaining
ers’ unions announced a figured wage claim for collective negotiations before. Never had they called for a strike after the first bargaining meeting either. Now they have, after the meeting...
Belgium: unions are looking for candidates for the 2012 employee representation bodies’ election
s of Works Councils (WCs) and Committees for prevention and protection at the workplace (Comités pour la prévention et la protection au travail, CPPT) will take place in May 2012 in...
6 October 2011
EU: Oliver Roethig, Uni Europa regional secretary, thinks “EWCs should be a platform for unions’ work”
lanet Labor during the Congress of the European services’ union, Uni Europa, which took place in Toulouse, France, on October 4-5, Oliver Roethig, the federation’s new regional...
Germany: Daimler staff get job security until 2016
000 German employees: they are safe from layoffs until December 31, 2016. After relatively quick negotiations, the carmaker’s management and central WC agreed, on October 5th, on the renewal...
Luxembourg: social partners are back at the bargaining table
ad been on hold for a year and a half. The government, employers’ representatives and unions finally met on September 29th. While the very existence of automatic indexing is no longer in...
United States: employment is still the key priority in the auto industry with the agreement signed with Ford
three weeks ago, Ford is the second American carmaker to reach an understanding with United Auto Workers (UAW). The tentative agreement, even if it doesn’t provide for a general wage...
Greece: government to make company negotiations simpler
the troika demanded the non-renewal of national sectoral collective agreements for three years to neutralize pay evolutions, and the government implemented a new series of measures, which notably...
4 October 2011
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France: sectors feel economic slowdown to differing degrees
The latest data on France’s occupational sectors (branches professionnelles), covering the year 2023, show how employment trends are shaping workplace dynamics. After a more favourable period for...
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Germany: apprenticeship openings fall sharply in manufacturing and chemicals
From 1 January 2026, Dutch collective agreements for temporary employment agencies will alter the employment conditions of temp workers. Agencies will be required to pay these workers at least the...