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Italy: 25th national Fiom-CGIL Congress ends with division
“Democracy based on labor.” This was the title, based on article 1 of the Italian constitution, of the 25th Congress of the Fiom, organized in Montesilvano (Pescara), on April 14-16. It was the...
19 April 2010
Romania: emergency ordinance to reform sick leaves and toughen controls
Home monitoring. With this strong reform of sick leave, which will come into force in May, the Romanian government has opened the hunting season against sick people. Health Minister Cseke Attila...
19 April 2010
Great Britain: labor aspects of the manifestos of the three political parties running for election
l Democrats published their manifestos for the general election on May 6. There are common themes: focus on flexible labor, remove default retirement, and create thousands of jobs. The Tories and...
19 April 2010
Germany: Verdi allowed to enter Lidl subsidiaries to recruit members
Two discussions a month without management supervision. In terms of staff management, Lidl, second largest discounter in Germany after Aldi, seems like the sector’s “black sheep” for spying on its...
16 April 2010
Italy: 4th SLC-CGIL national congress characterized by job cuts at Telecom Italia and the Italian Post
The 433 delegates representing the union’s 97,000 members elected their new management (with 20% of young and 39% of women), which re-elected the outgoing general secretary, Emilio Miceli.
16 April 2010
Deutsche Telekom: American and German telecom unions accuse T-Mobile USA of “massively overawing” employees trying to unionize
Climate of fear or malicious campaign? “Throughout the world, Deutsche Telekom respects workers’ rights and is a loyal interlocutor for all elected employee representation structures” declared...
16 April 2010
France: Easyjet fined for employing 170 employees on British contracts at Orly airport
teil, Val de Marne, found Easyjet guilty of hidden labor, offenses to employee representation and lack of registration. The company will have to 1.4 million euros in damages to the unemployment...
15 April 2010
Italy: 3rd national congress of the CGIL’s “atypical” workers’ federation, Nidil
The 3rd national congress of Nidil (acronym for Nuove Indentità di Lavoro – New Labor Identities), organized, on April 8-9 in Perugia, ended with the re-election of the outgoing general secretary...
15 April 2010
Germany: more and more companies take on a foreign legal form
Businesses avoiding co-management regulations. Sebastian Sick, specialized in economic law at the Hans-Böckler Foundation and author of the study, says that, up to the spring 2006, there were, in...
15 April 2010
Romania: new website promoting continuous education
Insufficient continuous learning. 1.3% of Romanian employees aged 25-64 have already enjoyed continuous education. To bring this number up and come closer to the European average (around 11%), the...
15 April 2010
Belgium: no alcohol or drugs in businesses
13% of workers under the influence of alcohol. So far, the only legal system to fight against drug and alcohol consumption at work dated from before world war two. It was article 99 of the general...
15 April 2010
Thales: interview with Bart Samyn, EMF deputy general secretary, on Thales’ European agreement on the annual discussion
lworkers’ Federation (EMF) signed, on April 14, a European framework agreement on “Transparent annual Activity Discussion for mutual Listening and developing professional...
15 April 2010
Italy: 9th Congress of the Filt, the CGIL’s transportation federation
The 9th congress of the Filt, the CGIL’s transportation federation, which also celebrated its 30th birthday on that occasion, took place in Turin on April 7-9. The 488 representatives (30% of...
14 April 2010
The Netherlands : Sandd and Selekt Mail lost their appeal against the anti-dumping social measures in the postal sector
Sandd and Selekt Mail took the Government to Court, mentioning that they would go bankrupt if they had to give labour contracts to their workers and to pay them a minimum wage. Frank Heemskerk...
14 April 2010
Great-Britain: adoption of the Bribery Act
New offences. The Bribery Act, based on the Law Commission recommendations (the statutory independent body in charge of reforming the British law), has overhauled "fragmented and complex...
13 April 2010
Thales: European framework agreement on the annual activity discussion
Opposition from the French CGT. This agreement applies to managers and employees inside the scope of the EWC (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway...
13 April 2010
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