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Great Britain: Unite union to pay £1.5m per year less to Labour
Unite, the largest union and the largest union affiliate to Labour, has announced that it will reduce the number of members it affiliates to the Labour Party from 1,000,000 to 500,000, thus...
7 March 2014
China: IBM workers strike over transfer to Lenovo
Over 1,000 workers from an IBM factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike for 4 days to protest against the conditions of their transfer to Chinese PC maker Lenovo.
7 March 2014
Italy: temporary work social partners sign permanent text of deal renewing the sector’s national collective agreement
On February 27, the NIdiL CGIL, Felsa CISL and UIL Tem.p@ unions and the Assolavoro employers’ organization signed the final text of the temporary work industry’s national collective labor...
6 March 2014
Brazil: metalworkers at Volkswagen site approve short-time working for 300 workers
A majority of the 3,400 workers at Volkswagen’s São José dos Pinhais plant (Paraná, south-east of Brazil) approved, on February, an agreement with the German carmaker that suspends, for 3 months...
6 March 2014
France: social partners strike deal on employment compensation in return for the lower social contributions planned by the government
Yesterday, March 5, the social partners reached a compromise on the terms of the quid pro quo President Hollande requested in return for lower social contributions. The “summary of conclusions...
6 March 2014
Italy: CGIL’s metal federation, Fiom, to organize its own consultation of metalworkers on the agreement reforming union representation and collective bargaining
The modalities for consulting workers about the single text on employee representation – signed by the 3 union confederations and Confindustria and Conservizi for employers, which reforms...
5 March 2014
Germany: metal social partners evaluate the 10 years following the ‘landmark’ Pforzheim agreement that led to the competitiveness agreements
Former quarrels forgotten: for the 10th anniversary of the famous “Pforzheim agreement,” the metal employers’ organization, Gesamtmetall, and the IG-Metall union unanimously gave a positive...
5 March 2014
Great Britain: Cameron confirms minimum wage increase
The British Prime Minister already announced that he intended to follow the Low Pay Commission’s recommendation, increase minimum wage by 3 percent as early as October. The government is hoping...
4 March 2014
United States: former French workers at Samsonite’s Henin Beaumont plant to refile case against Bain Capital investment fund
On March 5, the regional court of appeal (First Circuit) will hear the lawyers of former workers at Samsonite’s Henin Beaumont plant (north of France) about the admissibility of their action...
4 March 2014
Denmark: agreements in the construction, industrial cleaning and graphical industries but deadlock in finance
In the past few days, several collective agreements were signed, notably in construction industrial cleaning and graphics. This boost comes from the fact that most existing collective agreements...
4 March 2014
Two new articles on industrial relations foreign systems added to our Resource center
In addition to the interview of Avital Shapira-Shabirow, Director of the International Department of the Israeli trade union Histadrut, presenting the industrial relations system in her country...
3 March 2014
Israel: introduction to industrial relations
Avital Shapira-Shabirow, Director of the International Department of the Israeli trade union Histadrut, answers the questions of Planet Labour about the employee involvement system and the place...
3 March 2014
Schneider Electric: talks to become European Company (SE) launched
Last December, the management of the electric components manufacturing announced that it wanted to become a European company (SE) by May. The special negotiating committee set up to negotiate the...
28 February 2014
Great Britain: conservatives want to limit the right to strike
As the legislative election is coming near, the Conservatives announced that they were working on reforming the right to strike, which they are hoping to limit in order to avoid social movements...
28 February 2014
Denmark: agreement renews transport framework collective agreement
Dansk Industri (DI) and 3F’s Transportgruppe signed, on February 26, an agreement renewing the joint collective agreement (fællesoverenskomsten) for storekeepers, drivers and dockworkers. ...
28 February 2014
Switzerland: social partners at La Poste Suisse SA maintain single framework agreement on working and pay conditions for all group undertakings
For statutory reasons, because Poste Suisse became a corporation of public law in July 2013, the social partners had to renegotiate the collective labor agreement (CCT) that supervises working...
27 February 2014
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5 March 2026
Crédit Agricole is to adopt stricter rules on remote work from mid-March onwards. The rules will be tightened for employees, but the maximum number of days working remotely will remain unchanged.
29 January 2026
The three representative trade unions at Orange France have until 10 December to validate an agreement on gender equality, work–life balance and anti-discrimination measures. While the text...
8 December 2025
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31 October 2025
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France: Bayer puts female health and inclusive parenthood at the centre of its equality policy
In a new agreement on gender equality highlighted by mind RH, Bayer commits to strengthening its parenthood policy. Furthermore, the company is anticipating pay transparency and introducing...
25 September 2026
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Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall
The Volkswagen brand announced on 30 September that it is terminating 10 of its 13 internal collective bargaining agreements, effective 31 December 2026. The announcement, which the carmaker...
1 October 2026
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France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference
After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...
17 September 2026
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Germany: Employers’ representatives seek to limit the rights of works councils
The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...
8 October 2026
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Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union
The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...
16 September 2026
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Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining
A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...
22 September 2026