National industrial relations

Thus an opportune moment to turn the spotlight back on a database of European Works Council agreements as well as other pertinent information kept by European Trade Union Institute (ETUI), which...

7 April 2016

Austria: the banking sector negotiates a 1.24% wage rise and the setting up of a ‘labor foundation’

In Vienna, on 29 March, Austria’s banking sector’s social partners fourth meeting came to a close with the partners managing to find a compromise over renewing the sector’s collective agreement...

6 April 2016

Great Britain: towards measures facilitating social mobility in the workplace

David Cameron’s government and the country’s major employers are to create the first ever national measures that can quantify and encourage social mobility within companies.

4 April 2016

Sweden: following an agreement for 600,000 industry workers other sectors conclude their own negotiations

Nothing was guaranteed in advance, as not since 1997 had negotiation positions been so far apart. Thus an agreement was signed by the industry employers’ organizations anxious to avoid the...

4 April 2016

Italy: towards the first ever application of social clauses during a transition of business process for call centers

An agreement struck on 23 March in Italy’s Basilicate region between the unions, Telecom Italia, and the call centers that have won the region’s call center market is being hailed by unions as a...

4 April 2016

Italy: the general council of Italy’s primary employers’ confederation, Confindustria, designates its new president

On 31 March, the general council of the employers’ confederation, Confindustria, designated Vincenzo Boccia to succeed Giorgio Squinzi as its head. 100 out of 192 votes were cast in his favor (198...

1 April 2016

Renault: agreement over new competitiveness plan at Valladolid

Unions announced they struck an agreement in principle over the new ‘Competitiveness and employment agreement’, which guarantees both an increase in industrial activity at the Valladolid and...

1 April 2016

ThyssenKrupp launches an online violations reporting system as part of its global framework agreement

The German metals group has put up a website that allows the group’s employees worldwide to report any violations of the global framework agreement signed with IndustriALL Global union and IG...

1 April 2016

Whirlpool: the new European works council agreement covers the entire EMEA region

Following the US domestic appliance manufacturer’s purchase of its Italian competitor Indesit, the signatories agreed to apply article 13 of the European Directive 2009, which intends for complete...

31 March 2016

Italy: first of its kind alliance at FCA-Chrysler between Fim-Cisl and the senior executives association

A first of its kind alliance has been struck between workers and senior executives at Fiat that establishes a new era in Italian industrial relations. On 29 March, Fim union and the Fiat CNH...

31 March 2016

Renault: the new EWC agreement, signed with the SNB, is placed under European Directive 2009/38

On 24 March, the French automaker together with the SNB signed a new EWC agreement. In taking up the procedure right from the start the goal was to establish an SNB according to the terms in the...

31 March 2016

Spain: first national collective agreement concluded for the metal sector

On 29 March, unions and employers announced they had signed the first national collective agreement for the technology industry and the metal services sector, which guarantees a minimum level of...

30 March 2016

United States: California sets $15 minimum wage by 2022

California is moving to a $15 an hour minimum wage by 2022, whereas the Federal hourly minimum is fixed at $7.25. Following several consultations with Republicans in Congress, employers’...

30 March 2016

Argentina: agreement over wages in the automobile sector

With joint negotiations already in full swing in Argentina, in mid-March Smata, the automobile union (sindicato de mecanicos y afines del transporte), struck an agreement for the new April-June...

30 March 2016

Italy: the metals unions have called for a general strike in support of their demands that their national sector collective agreement be renewed

On 24 March, following a summit meeting between the metals sector employers’ bodies, Federmeccanica and Assistal, and the sector’s three main union bodies, Fim-Cisl, Fiom-CGIL, and Uilm-Uil, the...

25 March 2016

Great-Britain : Brexit could cost Britain £100 billion and one million jobs (CBI)

Leaving the EU would cause a serious shock to the UK economy that could lead to 950,000 job losses and leave the average household £3,700 worse off by 2020, a report commissioned by the CBI...

21 March 2016

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