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EU: European employment markets have to go from bad to green
pean employment markets. It is therefore, as expected, the conclusion of the European Commission’s annual employment report, published on November 23. It seems that things won’t get...
Denmark: FTF union’s congress on the subject of the renewal of the “Danish model”
face the crisis and the workforce shortage. This was the main theme of the congress of the second largest union in Denmark, Funktionærernes og Tjenestemændenes Fællesrad (FTF)...
Great Britain: social partners transpose the European agreement on harassment and violence at work
n (TUC), the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and the Partnership of Public Employers (PPE) adopted a series of guidelines for the implementation of the agreement signed by the European...
Germany: the patronizing effects of flexible working time and short-time working are starting to wear off
y the Federal Employment Agency, to which it answers, the German Labor Market and Employment Research Institute (IAB) revealed that full time employment is decreasing increasingly faster and that...
The Netherlands: the TNT postmen turn down salary cuts
Planet Labor, November 25, 2009, No. 091074 – www.planetlabor.com
Austria: Metalworking and chemical workers’ unions merge to become Pro.ge, the production trade union
The Metalworking Trade Union (GMYN) and the Union of Chemical Workers (GdC) have existed independently for respectively 119 and 107 years and this independence will end on Saturday, November 26th...
Germany: Berlin prepares a special labor world bill on the protection of personal data
Understand who may, but for four years of Grand Coalition, Angela Merkel’s conservative party (CDU) always blocked its democrat partners’ request for a law on the protection of employees’ personal...
EU: governments of States affected by Opel’s restructuring will cooperate
The social plan is ready. At the meeting on November 23 in Brussels, Nick Reilly, chairman of GM Europe, confirmed that there was a social plan for Opel and that its content would be revealed at...
Netherlands: discontent with the pension reform, the details of which haven’t been revealed yet
Mobilization. In front of a crowd gathered in a street in Rotterdam, Agnes Jongerius, FNV general secretary, accused, on Saturday, Finance Minister Wouter Bos of “changing sides” on pensions. Mr...
United States: under pressure from American students, Russell Athletic reopens a factory in Honduras, closed because of the unionization of the workers
The US group Russell Athletic, a sports apparel maker, has decided to reopen its factory in Honduras following a several months’ boycott of its clothes, which was orchestrated by the students...
23 November 2009
Sweden: social partners disagree on the extension of the framework agreement on crisis agreements in metalworking
h 31, 2010, Swedish employers want to extend the framework agreement (ramavtal) which allows local crisis agreements (krisavtal) cutting wages and working time in ailing businesses, judging that...
Italy: Google Map of spectacular collective action
rs made a Google Map of the spectacular collective actions spreading throughout the Peninsula since last summer. Internet has become a national sound box for local collective action. (Ref. 091067)...
Germany: Berlin prepares for extension of short-time working as part of an “Employment Pact”
eminar, followed by a very consensual meeting with union on November 18, Angela Merkel announced that the deadline to request short-time working (Kurzarbeit) was extended by six months. This...
Belgium: Employment Minister proposes quotas for women on large businesses’ boards
the stock exchange don’t have a single woman sitting at their board. This is a recent observation by the Institute for Gender Equality. After this study, Employment Minister Joelle Milquet...
Chile: MPs propose their own reform to improve collective bargaining after the Presidential project was abandoned
hamber of Deputies passed four proposals aimed at reforming the Labor Code, notably to extend the scope of collective bargaining. Thus, majority lawmakers are trying to save the draft labor law...
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