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EU: European social dialog in the paper industry on the way of formalization
e paper sector, CEPI and EMCEF, informed the European Commission in October that they wanted to take cooperation further. To validate the formalization of European social dialog in the sector, the...
4 December 2009
Germany: thirteenth month globally higher in 2009 than in 2008
After analyzing 23 major sectoral agreements, the WSI concluded that 2009’s 13th month should be much higher than in 2008. In concrete terms, these increases range between 1.5 and 7.3%, i.e...
4 December 2009
Great Britain: the government will strengthen the legislation to outlaw the blacklists of undesirable workers
Planet Labor, December 4, 2009, No. 091108 – www.planetlabor.com
4 December 2009
Belgium: the extension of anticrisis measures revives the debate on the harmonization of blue-collar and white-collar statuses
Harmonizing blue-collar and white-collar workers’ statuses. This is an old awe-inspiring specter for Belgian social dialog, resurfacing with the economic crisis. After negotiations between the...
3 December 2009
Germany: unions and temporary agencies want to stop wage dumping at the Schlecker hardware stores
“XL stores for XS wages.” In Bremen, Heidelberg, or many other cities in Germany, unhappy employees and sympathizing customers have been demonstrating against the new strategy of the Schlecker...
3 December 2009
France: summary of the key measures of the law on lifelong vocational guidance and training
Portability of individual training rights. In all cases where the termination of the labor contract isn’t justified by gross misconduct, and entitles to unemployment insurance, employees who...
3 December 2009
Great Britain: government measures to cope with the shortage of skilled workers in engineering construction
Talent shortage. In February 2009, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) asked Mark Gibson, former director general of this department, to draw a report on productivity and...
3 December 2009
Canada: Supreme Court validates Wal-Mart’s decision to close a store where a union gained following
“No legislation obliges any employer to remain in business.” On November 27, the supreme court of Canada has upheld the right of Wal-Mart’s management to shut down one of its stores in Quebec, in...
3 December 2009
Italy: Fiat confirms automotive production halt in Sicilian plant
Twenty days to find a solution. Confirming the decision to stop automotive production in 2011 in the Termini Imerese plant, Fiat’s managing director, Sergio Marchionne declared that “the...
2 December 2009
EU: the Council recommends Member States to improve workers’ protection against the tobacco smoke
Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia abstained from voting. The recommendation is based, almost word for word, on the text proposed by the European Commission on June 30 (see our dispatch...
2 December 2009
Austria: trade partners agree on wage increases between 1.5 and 1.8%
When presenting the terms of the wage agreement negotiated for the 570,000 workers in trade (including wholesale pharmaceutical trade), Manfred Wolf, negotiator for the GPA union, is mostly happy...
2 December 2009
Romania : the authorities struggle to reduce the importance of the underground economy
Planet Labor, December 3, 2009, No. 091099 – www.planetlabor.com
2 December 2009
Finland: in spite of the crisis, wage increases in chemistry are higher than the top limits recommended by employers’ organizations
This is an important result. Indeed, by a schedule coincidence, the period for the application of most collective agreement in Finland negotiated between 2006 and 2008 will expire in early 2010...
2 December 2009
Areva: EWC denounces bad sales conditions for workers at its T&D branch
Social concerns. By announcing, on November 30, the beginning of exclusive negotiations with Alstom/Schneider Electric, Areva ended several weeks of faux suspense around the sale of its T&D...
1 December 2009
Italy: Fiom-CGIL presents popular own-initiative bill on union democracy
Popular own-initiative bill. As of January 2010, the Fiom will start, in factories and regions, collecting the 50,000 signatures it needs to present its popular own-initiative bill for union...
1 December 2009
Hungary: two new acts revise the functioning of tripartite and sectoral social dialog structures
arian Constitutional Court questioning the co-determination right granted to national and sectoral social dialog structures, the Hungarian Parliament adopted two acts revising the powers of these...
1 December 2009
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