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Austria: 2.2 % wage increase for railroaders
Planet Labor, June 26, 2009, No. 090677 – www.planetlabor.com
26 June 2009
Germany: undeclared work goes back up with the crisis
customs, in charge of combating illegal labor since 2004, controlled 8,100 businesses in the construction sector and observed thousands of irregularities. With a turnover valued at 352 billion...
26 June 2009
Portugal: the management of Autoeuropa’s Palmela factory maintains the 250 jobs in danger but provides for a new partial unemployment period
ees rejected the new company agreement introducing more flexibility, Autoeuropa’s management announced the renewal of the 250 fixed-term contracts it wanted to cancel but plans a new ten-day...
25 June 2009
Czech Republic: new antidiscrimination act approved
The Czech Parliament overrode the President's veto (see our dispatch No. 081015) and adopted, on June 17, 2009, the new Antidiscrimination Act. This text, which transposes Directive 2000/78 on...
25 June 2009
Italy: Adecco signs the first agreement on partial unemployment for agency workers
signed with the trade unions an agreement on “derogatory social dampers” provided for in the anticrisis act (see our dispatch No. 090122) to the 77 agency workers of the Trelleborg...
25 June 2009
EU: note on the European blue card directive
ng the conditions of entry and residence of third-country nationals for the purposes of highly qualified employment was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on June 18. It...
25 June 2009
Germany: “Pact for apprenticeship” threatened by the crisis
“Pact for apprenticeship”(Ausbildungspakt) was created in 2004, the signatory parties – the federal government and the largest employers’ organizations (BDA, BID, DIHK and...
24 June 2009
Austria: unions abandon the dogma of the 35 hour work week
gress (June 30 – July 2, 2009), the Confederation of Austrian Unions (ÖGB) wants to commit in favor of new working time reduction systems which don’t automatically imply wage...
24 June 2009
Denmark: after revelations from the Danish TV, the Nordea bank promises a more ethical portfolio of investments
estments by pension funds (see our dispatch No. 080175), a program aired on June 2, 2009 denounces investments by three large Danish banks, notably in weapons. Nordea officially gave up...
Netherlands: failing money, partial unemployment is out of service
d to cover partial unemployment in 2009 were spent in three months. Reimbursements are temporarily suspended. The social partners demand an extension of the system until 2010 with a...
24 June 2009
EU: electricity social partners adopt a joint position on CSR
lectricity sector, Eurelectric for employers and EPSU and EMCEF for unions, signed, on June 22, a joint declaration on “the social aspects of corporate social responsibility in the European...
23 June 2009
Italy: Fiat signs innovative agreement with union on better security at work
mproving health and safety at its factory, the Italian carmaker, Fiat, signed, on June 16, 2009, in Turin, with the sector’s unions Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL, Uilm-Uil and Fismic an innovative...
23 June 2009
L’Oréal: rider to the agreement establishing the EWC
cosmetics leader, the five French trade union organizations, the European Mine, Chemical and Energy Workers’ Federation (EMCEF) and the European Federation of Managers in the Chemical and...
23 June 2009
Great Britain: new wave of strikes at the Lindsey refinery
se in British refineries. In Lindsey, the French oil manufacturer Total laid off, on June 19, 2009, 900 workers on an illegal strike for a week to protest against the layoff of 51 of their...
23 June 2009
Germany: new partial unemployment measures
loyment boom three months before the legislative elections, the grand coalition developed a new law strengthening the partial unemployment system. Adopted on a last reading on June 19, 2009 by the...
23 June 2009
EU: Spain gets 2,7 million euros for laid off workers in the auto sector
s in the auto sector in Castile y Leon and Aragon will receive a payment from the European Globalization adjustment Fund to retrain and find a new job. On June 11, the Council of Ministers...
22 June 2009
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