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Argentina: confederation of labour (CGT) united under one banner
After eight years of separation, the three main union bodies which make up the Argentinian CGT (General Confederation of Labour) officially announced their reunification on 22 August. The...
29 August 2016
Planet Labor news reports suspended during the month of August
Dear readers, during the holiday period in Europe we will be suspending our news information service. Between Friday evening on 29 July until Monday morning on 29 August we will not be posting any...
27 July 2016
Great Britain: changes to executive salaries in the offing?
The pressure on bosses at UK companies was turned up a notch yesterday, after the publication of a report recommending that firms make the salary gap between chief executives and other employees...
27 July 2016
Spain: hotel cleaning ladies organize themselves and establish the ‘Las Kellys’ association
Since the start of what is being hailed as one of Spain’s best tourist summers ever, female hotel cleaning room staff have criticized deteriorating working conditions, including excessively long...
26 July 2016
Hungary: tough summer expected for the auto sector
VASAS, the metals union federation, has announced an initial wave of strike action to take place during the summer months in six businesses within the auto sector, the names of which have not been...
25 July 2016
Czech Republic: the law that closes shops on public holidays is adopted
The long debate over shops opening during public holidays appears to have concluded with a Parliament decision being passed at the end of June that prohibits shop opening during seven national...
25 July 2016
Spain: Basque Region social partners sign an agreement giving regional collective agreements priority over national agreements
On 22 July, the employers’ body Confebask, together with the CCOO and the UGT unions ratified an agreement giving prevalence to collective agreements negotiated in the Basque region of Euskadi...
25 July 2016
Argentina: a challenging jobs situation facing the auto sector until the end of the year
Tough times ahead for Argentina’s auto jobs sector. While the auto union Smata pursues quarterly wage raises negotiations for the sector, different automakers continue to multiply both technical...
22 July 2016
Deutsche Post-DHL: concludes a protocol with global unions UNI and ITF to avoid new cases emerging of labor standards violations
On 19 July the ITF (transport workers), UNI (services) and DP-DHL agreed to a protocol, which commits them to continued dialogue on employment and industrial relations. “The parties will meet four...
21 July 2016
Czech Republic: roundup of auto sector collective negotiations
In a country with one of the lowest levels of pay in the EU, unions are attempting to secure wage rises from both foreign companies and their subcontractors.
21 July 2016
Germany: an agreement on mobile working at Audi
On 12 July, leaders at Audi’s central works council presented a company agreement on ‘mobile working’. The agreement is set to apply to the automaker’s 60,000 staff from October 2016 and it draws...
19 July 2016
Great Britain: firms welcome a return to an industrial strategy
For the first time since the Thatcher era, Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May has put the focus back on the need to put an industrial strategy in place. To this end the Prime Minister has...
18 July 2016
Denmark: tri-partite negotiations focus on apprenticeships
Denmark’s tri-partite negotiations have entered phase two. Since 15 April, and following the agreement struck on 17 March on integrating refugees into the labor market, all the parties have been...
15 July 2016
Germany: banking sector 3.7% pay rise over 33 months
Presented in the evening of 12 July, the wage agreement that applies to some 200,000 banking sector employees (public and private banks) is doubtlessly the least generous of the major wage...
13 July 2016
Great Britain: women continue to stake their claim in finance
Seventy-two major British firm have officially signed up to the government’s new Women in Finance charter which in particular links leaders’ pay to the appointment of senior women.
13 July 2016
Great Britain: the incoming Conservative Prime Minister is positively disposed to workers sitting on company boards
Workers sitting on the boards of directors and shareholders controlling company executive pay are two unexpected promises from Conservative MP Theresa May who is expected to replace David Cameron...
12 July 2016
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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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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
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026