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United States: Volkswagen employee representatives and the United Auto Workers union unite to facilitate organizing in the Chattanooga plant
King’s task in organizing in Tennessee will be made easier by a “Declaration on Social Rights and Industrial Relationships at Volkswagen” signed by the company, the International Metalworkers...
27 July 2011
Germany: new Eldorado for qualified jobseekers from southern Europe?
“There’s a lot of potential in Spain where thousands of engineers and IT specialists are unemployed” declared Monika Varnhagen, leader of the International Placement Services (Zentralen Arbeits-...
27 July 2011
Germany: unemployment decreases while precariousness increases
The number of fixed-term contracts increased by 4.6%, but temporary work is booming: +32.5%. Last year, temporary work accounted for over 50% of salaried recruitments and affected 742,000 workers...
25 July 2011
Great Britain: by reforming public sector pensions on a scheme-by-scheme basis, the government could avoid a widespread social conflict
This means that rather than meeting all the unions together, only the relevant unions will have a place at the bargaining table when future talks over individual schemes – like the Local...
22 July 2011
Germany: 5.2% increase for insurance employees
After several waves of strikes (see our dispatch No. 110415), the Verdi services’ union and the employers’ federation of German insurance companies (AGV) have reached an agreement, early in the...
22 July 2011
Italy: unitary agreement for the renewal of the collective agreement of Indesit Spa Group
After 18 hours negotiating, on July 19th, Indesit SpA and the National Coordination of Indesit Group unions – Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL and Uilm-Uil – signed a unitary agreement for the renewal of the...
22 July 2011
Portugal: government implements the Labor Code amendments requested by the Troika
Bill. The center-right government run by Pedro Passos Coelho wants to quicken the procedure for reforming the Labor Code, in accordance with the commitments taken with the “troika” (International...
21 July 2011
Ireland: transposition of the EWC directive
The definition of transnational does not include Recital 16 so that an issue is only considered transnational if it affects the company as a whole or at least two undertakings in at least two...
21 July 2011
United States: bill prohibiting the NLRB from interfering in terms of production transfers, even when motivated by the aim of avoiding unions
Threat. According to the republican representatives, the NLRB, the federal organization in charge of arbitrating disputes between unions and businesses, interfering with restructurings is a...
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20 July 2011
France: “the judge will have to sort out the uncertainties of the recast EWC directive and national transpositions,” Rachid Brihi, partner at the Grumbach law firm
Rachid Brihi. Frustration from the new EWC directive is even greater because the directive does not meet the expectations of legal clarification and security which the authors of the new text had...
19 July 2011
Italy: Court of Turin confirms the validity of the separate agreements of Pomigliano d’Arco but recognizes Fiat’s antiunion behavior towards the Fiom
“What’s important is that Fiat was condemned for antiunion behavior” Maurizio Landini, Fiom leader, pointed out when commenting the verdict rendered on July 16th by labor court of Turin, by Judge...
19 July 2011
Italy: Parliament permanently approved the government’s new austerity program
The bill converting decree-law of July 6, 2011, No. 98 (see our dispatch No. 110465) will go down in history as the bill approved in record time. The new law was published in the official...
18 July 2011
Poland: social partners failed to agree on minimum wage for 2012
“Unacceptable decision” for unions. At the last plenary meeting of the tripartite committee (unions-employers-government), the trade unions vividly reacted to the government’s proposal to bring...
18 July 2011
France: permanent adoption of the dividends bonus
Scope. This dividends bonus, introduced by the bill on corrective social security funding 2011 (see our dispatch No. 110363), will be paid by businesses with 50+ employees who paid dividends...
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15 July 2011
France: overview of the new provisions on apprenticeship, monitoring internships and labor leasing
Increasing quotas of work/study trainees. The bill adopted on July 13th (see our dispatch No. 110393) provides that apprentices can now sign an apprenticeship contract with two employers at the...
15 July 2011
Deutsche Telekom: unions file complaint with the OECD against Deutsche Telekom
Facts. The complaint concerns events that took place at T-Mobile USA and Crnogorski Telekom, Montenegro. In the first, unions denounce a union campaign organized by the management as early as...
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