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Netherlands: the fate of precarious workers at the center of ongoing negotiations for collective agreements
“Permanent contracts have to remain the rule.” This is a priority for the FNV, the country’s key union Confederation, and its member federations stick to it: in all the collective agreements...
29 March 2011
Great Britain: great turnout for TUC demonstration against government austerity policy
The turnout was considerably higher than the 100,000 the TUC had predicted in the weeks running up to the demonstration. The breadth of those participating was extensive from unions to pensioner...
28 March 2011
Germany: Verdi union and Deutsche Telekom agree on increases ranging between 3.15 and 5.15%
The intervention of a mediator, four meetings in three months and several warning strikes were necessary for the social partners to agree on wage increase counting among the highest increases...
28 March 2011
Romania: key novelties of the new Labor Code
Costel Gilca. The recent reform is the most important in labor law since 1989 and the fall of communism. The current code, which will become null 30 days after the new law is published in the...
28 March 2011
Germany: new Act against social dumping in temporary sector blamed for lacking in ambition and being unclear
General agreement on minimum wage in the temporary sector. Ursula von der Leyen, Federal Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, openly rejoiced, on Thursday, March 24th, of the amendment to...
28 March 2011
EU: European Parliament adopts draft on single permit
Equal rights. The text provides for a single procedure for the award of a permit for residence and work for third-country nationals legally arrived in Europe, even though the Member States will...
25 March 2011
Germany: Federal Labor Court limits advantages negotiated for union members only
Preferential clauses are spreading. The ruling issued by the Federal Labor Court (Case No. AZR 366/09) puts an end to a procedure which has been lasting for two years and concerns a crucial point...
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25 March 2011
Brazil: unions satisfied with the outcome of 2010 collective bargaining
The study published by the interunion department of statistics and socioeconomic studies (DIEESE) analyzes the 700 wage negotiations, including collective agreements negotiated at sectoral level...
25 March 2011
Alstom: unions worried about non-compliance with European framework agreement on the anticipation of change
Restructuring. On March 22nd, the French group Alstom presented a restructuring program for its transport unit, providing for 1,380 job cuts in Germany, Spain and Italy. “This program is...
24 March 2011
United States: NLRB wants to toughen employers’ obligation to inform employees about their union rights
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which mediates conflicts between unions and businesses, is thinking about increasing the obligation to inform employees about their union rights. The...
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24 March 2011
Italy: right wing union Confederation, UGL, is celebrating its 60th birthday
“The UGL is moving with devotion and humility through small and large negotiations, never feeling inferior, with a high growth – 14.7% – in 2010.” It is by pointing to this “extraordinary result...
24 March 2011
Great Britain: deregulation and improving skills on the menu of the 2011 Budget
Deregulation of labor. To support employers, draft regulations which would have cost them £350M a year are cancelled, including the possibility to lodge a complaint for double discrimination...
24 March 2011
Germany: adoption of the bill on the recognition of foreign degrees to combat the shortage in skilled workers
Make Germany more attractive. Schavan, who wrote the bill, was full praise of the outcome of intense and long dialogue with the social partners, different ministries and experts, opened as early...
24 March 2011
Portugal: “temporary” agreement between the social partners on the program for the improvement of competitiveness and employment
“Heaven-sent agreement.” The social partners were quite reluctant to the idea of signing an agreement with a government ‘on death row.’ The General Confederation of Portuguese Workers (CGTP)...
23 March 2011
Belgium: textile social partners negotiate 2011-2012 collective agreements
Margin. Talks opened on March 14th within equal committee No. 109, which covers the 20,000 people working in clothing. It gathers sectoral representatives from the key unions in Belgium, CSC...
23 March 2011
Denmark: government and opposition agree on 2012-2020 working environment strategy
The agreement on the strategy for the working environment 2020, signed yesterday, march 22nd, between the government, the social-democratic party, the Danish People’s Party and the radical left...
23 March 2011
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