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Great Britain: the train drivers’ union, Aslef, makes a bid to run the franchise for the East Coast rail
Aslef intends to make a bid as a people’s cooperative to show that the line can be better run than by a conventional profit-seeking company. The cooperative will be owned and run by its members in...
Belgium: new flexible work organization at Audi
Stick closer to demand. “When you start producing a new model, demand is extremely high, everyone wants the brand new fashionable car. After this production peak, usually, demand slows down, so...
Netherlands: burnout cases are escalating
According to the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases (Centrum voor Beroepsziekten, NCvB), an organization that publishes national statistics and organizes targeted monitoring campaigns...
Germany: IG-Metall and employers want to renew minimum wage in electrical engineering
A procedure renewed every time. This sector is mostly made up of SMEs, i.e. around 76,000 businesses employing nearly 310,000 people. They are mostly electrical engineers, IT experts and...
Russia: quick overview of industrial relations
Legislation really favorable to employees. The Labor Code adopted in 2001 guarantees “social partnership” via privileges granted to “pan-Russian” unions (covering a majority of the federal...
Italy: division at the end of the CGIL’s 16th Congress
The 16th CGIL Congress, organized in Rimini between May 5 and May 8 under the catch phrase “to defend work and free rights,” was tainted with the crisis, but not the economic crisis alone. Indeed...
Great Britain: union alliances and users associations to protect jobs in public services in the face of planned budget cuts
there is currently some elementary appreciation that to effectively fight the cuts and privatisation agenda that the new government will implement in the public sector alliances of the providers...
Corporate Practices: one year later, Scania is learning the lessons from the implementation of the 4-day week as an answer to the economic crisis
An atypical decision necessary to safeguard skills. By deciding to maintain its staff in spite of a major drop in orders, Scania adopted a human resources policy clashing with the idea that...
OECD: towards an update of guidelines for multinational companies
Global context. After a major consultation, the Member States agreed on a mandate to improve the OECD’s guidelines aimed to promote responsible entrepreneurial behaviors across the world. The...
10 May 2010
Bolivia: general strike following the refusal to increase wages beyond 5%
On May 1st, the Bolivian government declared that the wage increase in the public and in the private sector amounted to 5% in 2010 and 3% for the military and the police, and there is no...
PSA Peugeot Citroën: amendment to the worldwide framework agreement on social responsibility
This amendment was negotiated with the representatives of the international and European metalworkers’ federations (IMF and EMF) in the name of the 90 trade unions present in the 31 countries...
EU: medium term forecast of skills supply and demand in Europe up to 2020
Modest job creation. The Cedefop’s first observation is clear: by 2020, Europe still won’t have fully recovered from the economic crisis. “Despite indications that world economy is now emerging...
Great Britain: Alliance Trust, Burberry, IBM and National Grid rewarded for their gender policy
Female FTSE 100 award. Alliance Trust, the investment company, as well as Burberry, won the award for parity in their boards. Within the FTSE 100, they are the ones with most women on their boards...
International: UN report prepares the ground for an international strategy on businesses and human rights
“Protect, respect and remedy” is based on three independent principles: the State’s duty to prevent human rights abuses committed by third parties, notably businesses; their responsibility to...
5 May 2010
Germany: IG-Metall leads new offensive of German unions against temporary work
Launch a general debate to change the law. Sponsored by no less than three former Employment Ministers from the social-democratic and conservative governments of Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl and...
Netherlands: pensions at the heart of the electoral campaign
Increasing statutory retirement age from 65 to 67 in 2020, was already subject to many debates and a bill last year. The reform, to which populist right-wing Geert Wilders and the small Socialist...
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