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Great Britain: 60 percent of workers on the controversial ‘zero-hours’ contracts are allegedly (report by the CIPD HR organization)
Have the highly controversial ‘zero-hours’ contracts been “unfairly demonized”? The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) believes so, and claims that this form of contracts –...
26 November 2013
Germany: IG-Metall elects new management and gets Merkel to make promises
Gathered at their annual conventional on November 24-25 in Frankfurt, the 458 IG-Metall delegates elected, as expected, Detlef Wetzel, former number 2, as the leader of the organization. He is...
25 November 2013
Sweden: If Metall and Teknikarbetsgivare sign new deal on working time cut in case of a crisis in addition to the future short-time working system
Inspired from the ‘crisis agreements’ signed in 2009, a bill on the “kortidsaerbete med statligt stöd” (working time cut with State support) is going to be debated in Parliament soon. However...
25 November 2013
Great Britain: new pay deal in the construction industry
The three main construction unions, the GMB, UCATT and Unite, are to recommend to their members covered by under the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) agreement acceptance of a new offer...
25 November 2013
Switzerland: initiative to limit employers’ pay failed but left a mark
On Sunday, November 24, the Swiss people clearly rejected the 1:12 initiative, which requested that the ratio between the highest and lowest salary paid in a company didn’t exceed 1 to 12. 65.3...
25 November 2013
France: funding is the bone of contention of the reform of vocational training and apprenticeship
Presented as a priority for François Hollande’s 5-year term, the reform of vocational training should be complete by the end of this year, at the same time as an apprenticeship reform. While the...
25 November 2013
Finance sector workers throughout the world have suffered a lot in recent years, according to a report by UNI Finance Global
Nearly 200,000 jobs lost in the financial sector throughout the world these past two years. 80 percent of the sector’s unions in Europe reporting health issues for their members. These are two...
22 November 2013
Germany: Angela Merkel confirms statutory minimum wage
Yesterday, November 21, the Chancellor confirmed, more clearly than ever, that Germany was going to adopt statutory minimum wage. This concession, obtained following friction with the...
21 November 2013
Great Britain: businesses with employee ownership will have their stock index
Improving employee ownership is one of the leitmotivs of the Cameron team, which recently announced the creation of a tailor-made stock index to identify businesses where at least 3 percent of...
21 November 2013
Brazil: OAS construction group to pay a BRL 15 million fine for slavery
OAS, the public construction company, one of the biggest in the country, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) for “maintaining 150 workers in a situation nearing...
20 November 2013
Australia: government wants to set up independent monitoring organization for unions and employers’ organizations
Following the latest scandals of financial embezzlement in some organizations, the Australian government wants to plan ahead. It wants to set up an independent committee in charge of monitoring...
20 November 2013
Luxembourg: first results of the social election
On November 13, employees elected their representatives to the Chamber of Employees (CSL) and employee representation structures at company level. The first report shows that the union landscape...
19 November 2013
Germany: one in three workers in the auto, machine-tool and metal industry is allegedly agency workers or has a service provision contract, according to the IG-Metall
According to the IG-Metall, approximately 1 million of the 3.6 million working in the metal, auto, electronics and machine-tool industry are either agency workers or employed with a service...
19 November 2013
Italy: Eni and Ilva sign operational protocol on security at work in Tarente industrial area
The operational protocol signed on November 11 by Ilva, Eni, the Apulia region, the National Institute for Insurance against Industrial Accidents (Inail), the Ministry of Employment, the Ministry...
18 November 2013
Great Britain: government inquires into unions’ behavior within the framework of collective disputes
The Coalition government has established a formal inquiry into the tactics of unions in industrial disputes in the wake of the bitter Ineos-Unite battle at Grangemouth. The prime minister’s office...
18 November 2013
Spain: agreement in the dispute of cleaning and gardening services in Madrid
The agreement reached yesterday, November 17, puts an end to 13 days of strike in cleaning and gardening services in Madrid. It is considered as a victory by the trade unions, UGT (majority union...
18 November 2013
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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...
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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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Germany: standoff over national plan to boost collective bargaining
Under the EU Adequate Minimum Wages Directive, Germany is required to produce an action plan to boost collective bargaining coverage. That plan has stalled, however, after being blocked by the...
9 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...
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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