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Spain: court cancels part of the supermarkets’ collective agreement
The National Court canceled some of the provisions of the collective retailing agreement signed by the Fetico and Fasga unions against the CCOO and UGT’s sectoral union federations. The provision...
28 November 2013
Brazil: series of pay deals struck in the metal industry
Several sectoral agreements leader to a global 8 percent wage increase were signed in the metal industry in the State of São Paulo. Some were signed by Força sindical, some were signed by the CUT...
28 November 2013
International: shipbuilding and shipbreaking unions make it their priority to organize precarious workers
During IndustriALL Global Union’s Shipbuilding-Shipbreaking Action Group Meeting, which too place in Denmark on November 12-14, unions from the 18 countries represented decided to give priority to...
27 November 2013
Great Britain: sixth national survey of employment relations published
The full results of the sixth national survey of employment relations in Britain has now been published as Employment Relations: In the Shadow of Recession. It examines the state of employment...
27 November 2013
Germany: key points of the “Grand Coalition” program
The “grand commission” shared by the conservative parties (CDU and CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) finished working on Tuesday, November 27, around 5:30 am after one of the longest...
27 November 2013
United States: Walmart found guilty of unfair social practices
No, Walmart didn’t have the right to lay off and sanction employees who went on strikes and demonstrations, ruled the National Labor Relations Board after investigating for nearly a year into the...
26 November 2013
Great Britain: British workers’ training blamed once again
Young graduates accepting unskilled jobs, businesses forced to recruit abroad to find employees with the appropriate skills, everything shows that training in the UK isn’t adapted to the labor...
26 November 2013
Portugal: Parliament adopts 2014 austerity budget in difficult social atmosphere
Today, November 26, the National Assembly of Portugal is going to adopt the 2014 austerity budget, the third since the right-wing government came to power in 2011. The Finance Act plans to save...
26 November 2013
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
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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...
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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