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Portugal: unions call for high wage increases in 2012
nizations in the country are asking for wage increases ranging between 2 and 4% for next year. They are also calling for an increase in Portuguese minimum wage as mentioned during social dialogue...
8 September 2011
Portugal: employees’ 2011 income cut drastically with the enforcement of the extraordinary tax on the Christmas bonus
loyees’ Christmas bonus has come into force. The tax, withheld and amounting to 50% of the part of the bonus exceeding minimum wage, should bring the State EUR 1 billion. This tax is going...
8 September 2011
Sweden: LO unions agree on joint claims for 2012 negotiations
ves from different trade unions affiliated with the LO confederation (the country’s key union confederation) met in order to think about ways to get organized for the 2012 negotiations. In...
8 September 2011
Great Britain: Premier wants to water down European Agency Workers Directive
temporary work will come into force on October 1, 2011, the Prime Minister is looking at ways to lessen its impact on the economy, according to what The Telegraph wrote on September 5, 2011...
8 September 2011
Italy: the CGIL’s general strike opens the “hot fall”
“Sinful, absolutely unfair, completely useless,
un-civic and irresponsible” is how CGIL leader Susanna Camusso qualified the
budget austerity plan approved by the Council of Ministers on August...
7 September 2011
Germany: chemistry social partners in eastern Germany work on groundbreaking system for flexible working time
in talks on the working conditions of the 36,000 people working in the eastern-German chemical industry, the IG BCE union announced, on September 1st, that it sent employers a proposal for a...
7 September 2011
Finland: serial layoffs and wheezing social dialogue on the menu for the new social season
n trying, for weeks, to encourage cooperation between the social partners, mistrust is prevailing among union ranks. On the eve of another round of collective bargaining in many sectors (banking...
7 September 2011
Ireland: government and social partners to negotiate exception to the European directive on temporary work
ike the principle of equal treatment as regards the working conditions of permanent and temporary workers to apply after six months in the job. Directive 2008/104 on temporary work lays this...
7 September 2011
Sweden: Scania signs new flexibility agreement for Swedish production sites
a new “flexibility” agreement with the IF-Metall (metalworkers’ union) applying in its Swedish production units. This agreement is made up of two complementary chapters: one on...
6 September 2011
Austria: high inflation rate at the heart of collective bargaining in the metal industry
l partners in the Austrian metal industry are going to reveal their claims for the renewal of collective agreements via three meetings on October 4th, 12th and 20th. Since businesses’ order...
6 September 2011
Germany: Deutsche Bahn railways announce 70,000 new jobs over 10 years
s and staff cuttings, Deutsche Bahn announced, last week, that it wanted to recruit about 7,000 employees and apprentices each year during the coming decade. In the meantime, the company and...
6 September 2011
United States: pay gap allegedly bigger because of decline in union membership
union membership had a much bigger impact than anticipated on the rise of pay unfairness in the United States. This is the conclusion of two renowned sociology professors in their latest study...
5 September 2011
Sweden: social partners involved in five-year plan for disabled people
ster of Labor Hillevi Engström officially launched the “New strategy for a policy in favor of people with reduced functions” (nya strategi fôr funktionshinderspolitiken)...
5 September 2011
Germany: Bosch Solar Energy signs first company agreement in solar power
h Solar Energy AG, Bosch Solar Wafers GmbH and Bosch Solar Thin Film, Bosch’s subsidiaries in Thuringia, signed the first true collective company agreement in a sector that is promising but...
5 September 2011
Brazil: authorities investigate the use of slavery in Zara’s workshops
bor and the San Paulo administration charged the Spanish clothing giant, Zara, with 52 infringements to labor standards after discovering, in mid-August, three clothing workshops belonging to the...
1 September 2011
United States: National Relations Board to be paralyzed soon
Board (NLRB), which arbitrates conflicts between unions and businesses, could be paralyzed soon. The chair of the NLRB’s board, Wilma Liebman, just left. Another colleague should leave the...
1 September 2011
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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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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...
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