News update as of 25 September 2018

On the menu: IndustriALL Global Union turns up the volume on the dispute over unionized workers who have been dismissed in the Yves Rocher Turkey subsidiary, Airbnb is looking to extend shareholding opportunities to gig economy workers, Italy’s social partners sit round the negotiations table to debate e-commerce parcel distribution, and still in Italy, the 5 Star Movement together with The League are seeking to lower pensions that exceed €4,500 net per month, more than 190,000 UK workers have signed a mental health at work petition, Manpower France interim employees secure a health and safety agreement, and the business press is asking what would happen if employees set wages?
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Yves Rocher/IndustriALL Global Union raises the media profile on a dispute that is pitting dismissed unionized workers against the French cosmetics giant’s Turkey subsidiary, Flormar. Over the summer tensions did not ease between the global union federation IndustriALL Global Union and Yves Rocher. The dispute concerns union claims of anti-union practice by the cosmetics giant’s Turkey subsidiary Flormar (c.f. article No 10711). The French press has started reporting on the workers’ protestatio

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