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Italy: method for mandatory assessment of the risk of work-related stress
The “remedial” decree of 2009 on Testo Unico 81/2008 on health and safety at work (see our dispatch No. 090786) conditioned the enforcement of employers’ mandatory assessment of risks of...
10 February 2011
Germany: GDL train drivers union’s decision to launch strikes as of February 16th revives debate on “tariff unity”
Existential conflict for the GDL. For the GDL train drivers’ union (34,000 members), which obtained the right to sign a special collective agreement for train drivers after spectacular strikes in...
10 February 2011
EU: European Construction Mobility Information Net now available
Information. Subsidized by the European Commission and the EFBWW, the website covers 12 EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. It provides information on working conditions in...
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10 February 2011
Spain: employers and unions tackle collective bargaining reform
The representatives of Workers’ Commissions (CCOO), UGT and the CEOE employers’ organization set out the dates for the meetings and determined the themes to address: the structure and articulation...
9 February 2011
Netherlands: unions to be consulted in the event of amicable termination of the labor contract for a number of employees
Henk Kamp, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, proposed an amendment to the Collective Redundancy (Notification) Act (Wet Melding Collectief Ontslag), which affects layoffs for more than 20...
9 February 2011
Great Britain: government wants to boost apprenticeship to make up for the talent shortage
Quantity. Play on the quantity and quality of professional training: this is the double objective of the government which launched, in November 2010, its strategy for training and apprenticeship...
9 February 2011
Germany: IG-Metall union calls for 5% wage increase for 130,000 employees in textile and clothing
Employees’ high expectations. Helga Schwitzer, in charge of collective bargaining within the IG-Metall’s steering committee, justified the wage claim by reminding that employees bore most of the...
8 February 2011
EU: Sylvain Lefebvre, EMCEF political secretary, says new EWC directive “gives impetus to bargaining”
Globally, the new EWC directive gives impetus to negotiation, to our representatives, and to trade union organizations, either to improve existing agreements, or to establish new ones. At...
8 February 2011
Germany: Volkswagen staff get 3.2% pay rise
Compromise. Pointing to the German carmaker’s good results in 2010, the IG-Metall’s collective bargaining committee announced, on December 6th, that it intended to claim for a 6% wage increase...
8 February 2011
Netherlands: tough negotiations at NXP, Philips subsidiary
Negotiations for the future collective agreement at NXP should be difficult. This metallurgic company created in 2006 to outsource Philips’ production of semiconductors is owned by American...
8 February 2011
EU: the social models of the 27 Member States at the heart of the debate on the future European economic governance
Unofficial list. For the “Pact for Competitiveness” she proposed, the Chancellor considers that “the model chosen should come from the country that meets the most requirements,” namely Germany. ...
7 February 2011
Portugal: rotating and partial strikes all week against austerity
Transport affected. The Monday, February 7-Friday, February 11 is going to be a week characterized by partial strikes in transportation and at the Portuguese post. The first to enter the contest...
7 February 2011
Germany: government wants to introduce “flexible quotas” to increase the number of women on companies’ boards
The French example. For once, France is an example for Germany since it signed, in January, the introduction of a statutory and mandatory quota of 40% of women by 2017 (20% in 2014) at the head...
7 February 2011
Belgium: FGTB and CGSBL reject cross-industry agreement 2011-2012
Refusal. After consulting its members, the FGTB refused to sign the draft cross-industry agreement 2011-2012 the social partners concluded in mid-January (see our dispatch No. 110040). On...
7 February 2011
Italy: social partners in “logistics, transportation and goods delivering” industry renew CCN with a unitary agreement
On the night of January 26th, Aite, Aiti, Ansep-Unitam, Assoespressi, Assologistica, Federspedi, Fedit, Fisi, Federlavoro, Legacoop servizi, Produzione e servizi di lavoro-AGCI, Anita, CNA-Fita...
3 February 2011
Romania: fierce negotiations on the new Labor Code
Lingering negotiations. On Wednesday, February 2nd, a new meeting took place between union representatives, Labor Minister Ioan Botis and Premier Emil Boc but it didn’t achieve the negotiations...
3 February 2011
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