News update as of March 26, 2019

On the menu: in Germany, SPD backing a minimum salary Europe-wide, no collective bargaining for outsourced workers in the UK, provisional agreement on  draft directive on cross-border company conversions, mergers and divisions,s alaries doubled over 10 years in the Romanian retail sector, Volkswagen facility at Chattanooga, Tennessee (USA) raises the minimum hourly salary for its employees to $16, agreement struck between Walmart Mexico's trade union and management.
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Germany/ SPD backing a minimum salary Europe-wide. Although new leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, firmly rejected the notion of a European minimum salary, as called for by French President Emmanuel Macron in an opinion article at written at the beginning of March and printed in newspapers in each of the EU’s 28 Member States, the SPD party has in contrast placed this call at the center of its European Election campaign manifesto that was adopted in Berl

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