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United Kingdom: government unveils new T levels to develop technical education
In a bid to boost productivity and bridge the skills gap, the UK plans to create eleven T levels by 2022. On 11 October, the government revealed new details on the qualifications, which will...
12 October 2017
Brazil: one month ahead of labour reform’s entry into force, unions negotiate agreements to limit its impact
The law to reform Brazil’s Labour Code (see article n°10312) is due to enter into force from 11 November, 120 days after it was adopted. Trade union groups, the majority of which are opposed to a...
12 October 2017
Sweden: government looks to help trade unions boost membership
As part of its Autumn budget, the Swedish government has included measures that are clearly geared towards encouraging union membership and creating a greater balance between negotiating parties...
11 October 2017
Germany: IG Metall calling for a 6% wage rise and the right to temporarily reduce working time
In Frankfurt on 10 October, the IG Metall metals union presented its demands for the collective negotiation process that is set to start on 15 November 2017, and which will affect 3.9 million...
10 October 2017
Great Britain: business baffled by the new apprenticeship funding system
The UK’s recently introduced Apprenticeship Levy (April 2017) has met with startling problems: government data shows that only half of the nation’s businesses that pay the new levy have claimed...
10 October 2017
Brazil: economic crisis impacting salary readjustments
Since Brazil entered recession at the end of 2014, salary rises have struggled to keep up with inflation. In 2012 only 1.4% of salary adjustments were less than the inflation rate, whereas the...
10 October 2017
United States: Teamsters oppose driverless trucks
Truck drivers from the Teamsters trade union have convinced the US Congress to exclude particularly heavy trucks from its draft legislation on driverless vehicles. The decision provides temporary...
9 October 2017
News update as of October 5, 2017
On the menu : in Portugal, Volkswagen Autoeuropa Workers Commission election reshuffles the cards, in Luxembourg a tripartite project to support digital competences development, Caterpillar calls...
4 October 2017
Spain: a wages report explains the phenomenon of wage devaluation disparities
A report by Funcas (a private non-profit think-tank organization created and financed by CECA (Spanish confederation of savings banks)) has delivered a statistical overview of the impact of the...
4 October 2017
Italy: the impact of inflation on minimum salary levels is upsetting the social climate in certain sectors and has re-ignited the debate over collective negotiations
Tensions are brewing in the rubber-plastics sector. The national collective agreement intends for previously agreed (last year) salary rises to be revised according to the observed inflation rate...
4 October 2017
Germany: refugee integration pilot project seen as a success
According to the IG Metall union the success of this experiment has proved conclusive: as part of a joint pilot project launched in April 2017 by the Baden-Württemberg Esslingen IG Metall section...
4 October 2017
ASOS: signs a global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global
In a Global Framework Agreement (GFA) signed on 02 October, the UK clothing company ASOS commits to adopting policies and procedure that develop collective bargaining and social dialogue along its...
3 October 2017
Great Britain: Aviva pledges 25% of headcount will be older than 50 by 2022
The insurance giant is looking to set an example by hiring 1,000 over-50s over the next five years. This ‘senior-friendly’ policy come sa year after Andy Briggs, chief executive of the Aviva UK...
3 October 2017
Belgium: banking sector collective agreement for 2017-18 targets industry response to digitalisation
On 29 September, social partners from the Belgian banking sector reached a deal on a new collective agreement. For the first time, the agreement includes a supplementary pay rise guarantee and...
2 October 2017
Spain: ‘civic work stoppage’ and general strike planned in Catalonia tomorrow (brief)
On 2 October, the leadership of the regional strands of the CCOO and UGT – Spain’s largest trade union groupings – announced that an agreement had been reached in principle on the previous day to...
2 October 2017
Spain: Balearic Islands’ hotel sector breaks with trend of wage moderation with a 17% pay rise spread over four years
The Federación Empresarial Hotelera de Mallorca, a hotels federation on the Spanish island, reached a deal on quality employment in the hotel sector with the CCOO and UGT trade unions on 28...
29 September 2017
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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