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Balkans: labor law changes in a difficult economic and social situation
Recent months have been full of news in terms of workers’ rights in the Balkan area. The different reform mostly aim to make these formerly collective economies more competitive by making labor...
27 May 2014
Sweden: Seko union terminates ongoing negotiations in rail industry to lobby Veolia Transport within the framework of their conflict regarding staff recruitment conditions
Following the sectoral agreement signed in 2013, a working group was set up. One of its missions was to think about ways to secure employees in case of a transfer of activities. However, Seko...
26 May 2014
Great Britain: CWU and GMB unions create their own legal firm
The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) and the GMB general union have together launched the first ever union legal firm. Called UNIONLINE (meaning also ‘union online’), the firm will provide a...
26 May 2014
Norway: agreement reached in logistics
On May 15, the NHO Logistikk og Transport employers’ organization (logistics and transportation) and the NTF (Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund) union signed an agreement for the logistics and...
23 May 2014
Greece: towards a reform of union law regulations
Major changes to union practices and operation mode are about to be adopted – by the end of the year. Indeed, pressed by the Troika, the Ministry of Labor is working on the development of a new...
22 May 2014
Great Britain: working time as the grounds for many collective disputes
The traditional 1 April settlement date for annual pay rises has passed, so unions’ priorities have shifted. A crop of industrial disputes over issues of working time have emerged. They focus...
22 May 2014
Luxembourg: banking sector signs collective labor agreement
On May 15, the social partners in the banking industry reached an agreement for a collective labor agreement (CCT) for the period between 2014 and 2016. This conclusion came after months of...
22 May 2014
Japan: firms are searching for more flexibility
Market pressure combined with global market changes have weakened japans’ traditional model of durable employment, leading businesses that need to cut costs to increasingly recruit workers with...
21 May 2014
Norway: the new wage agreement signed in the oil industry doesn’t dismiss the risk of social conflict
A deal was reached on May 9 between the manufacturing and energy workers’ union (Industrienergi) and the Norwegian Gas and Oil Association (Norske Olje og Gass). It covers workers (operators...
21 May 2014
Germany: Bosch’s social partners strengthen employees’ rights in the framework agreement on “mobile work”
After observing that some hierarchical structures were very reluctant to the ‘home office’ system, whereby employees can partly work from home, Bosch’s social partners redefined the company...
20 May 2014
Italy: Electrolux signs agreement with unions, government and local authorities to maintain production in the country
In January, Electrolux presented drastic conditions to maintain production in Italy, demanding, among other things, a pay cut, tougher working conditions or even limited union rights. Following...
19 May 2014
Germany: wage agreement characterized by east-west harmonization for 760,000 construction workers
The collective agreements’ committee of the German construction firms’ federations eventually agreed, on Friday, May 16, to the agreement bitterly negotiated with the sector’s union, IG BAU. The...
19 May 2014
Spain: employers and unions launch negotiations to renew the framework agreement on pay
The social partners started discussing the national agreement that defines the outline of pay evolution, with the current pact coming to an end at the end of 2014. Whereas unions want to define a...
19 May 2014
Germany: Otto Brenner union foundation says more and more businesses are trying to keep WCs from setting up or working
In a new survey entitled “Union busting in Germany,” the Otto Brenner union foundation sounded the alarm: in spite of the high level of regard union representatives get in German businesses and of...
16 May 2014
Germany : the Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) submitted a new law which restores the trade union unity in companies based on certain conditions
In contrast with the first pieces of information that were spread by the German media and then corrected at a later time, the members of the DGB that met in Berlin did not categorically reject the...
16 May 2014
Australia : the government introduced two new work programs after having presented the budget
The minister of Finances, Joe Hockey, has presented his first federal budget in the name of austerity. With regard to work, two new programs have been announced. The first one is a wage subsidy to...
15 May 2014
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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EU: social partners split over competitiveness and action on job quality
The European Trade Union Confederation and BusinessEurope have published their response to the consultation document on the European Commission's upcoming EU quality jobs initiative. The two...
4 February 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026