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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...
Great Britain: growing use of Section 188 in the public and voluntary sectors to legally dismiss staff in order to rehire them on poorer pay and conditions
Workers at a Scottish charity, Quarriers, are the latest example of a group of workers to experience lawfully imposed wages cuts. Their union, Unison, reported that Quarriers, which has a...
13 July 2011
EADS: new European agreement on success-sharing
Now that it has a framework for the negotiation of transnational agreements (see our dispatch No. 100677), EADS has renegotiated its success-sharing agreement, which dated back to 2009. The new...
13 July 2011
Italy: banking social partners agree on reforming the sector’s solidarity fund
“A historical victory for the entire union movement since it avoided early or compulsory retirement for 30,000 Italian workers at a time of severe economic and social crisis.” This is how the...
12 July 2011
Belgium: Constitutional Court gives the lawmaker until 2013 to harmonize the blue-collar and white-collar statuses
Notice and waiting period. In the decree issued on July 7th, the Constitutional Court ruled on the constitutional character of two issues that have been at the heart of the negotiations between...
12 July 2011
Italy: temporary social partners launch sectoral pension funds
“At European level, there has been no similar experience in the sector. Therefore, Italy can pride itself in being the first, building a system capable of protecting agency workers throughout...
11 July 2011
Romania: harsh restructurings and privatizations in the offing for State companies
Numerous cuts. The Romanian government is preparing a major wave of restructurings within State companies with financial difficulties: this summer alone, nearly 7,000 jobs should be cut in energy...
11 July 2011
Germany: growth is starting to show in wage increases negotiated in 2011
Moderate but durable increases. According to the latest quarterly monitor of wage negotiated within the framework of sectoral collective agreements of the Hans Böckler foundation, collective...
11 July 2011
Great Britain: government maintains employees’ right to request time off to train but will review the policy in 2015
Context. Since April 6, 2010, employees in businesses with 250+ people can ask their employer for time off to train during working time. This right should have applied to businesses with less...
11 July 2011
Italy: government reveals 2011 austerity policy
At a press conference organized on July 6th, Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, announced that the decree on the stabilization of finances should help save €25.3 billion. In addition to the...
8 July 2011
Spain: unions and Telefónica management agree on 6,500 job cuts over 3 years
Unions agreed to the 3-year employment reduction program (ERE) affecting up to 6,500 employees. The company accepted to improve its initial offer and will pay employees who leave 68% of their...
8 July 2011
Morocco: the new Constitution improves fundamental rights at work
Primacy of international law and of Human Rights. The preamble of the new Constitution dedicates a whole paragraph to the primacy of international law over Moroccan law. The previous...
7 July 2011
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EU: Parliament formally adopts omnibus, diluting due diligence rules
On 16 December, the European Parliament formally approved the omnibus package amending the EU corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence directives. Their application has been pushed...