Labour relations

The social partners agreed to raise the gross monthly national minimum wage (SMN) from €530 to €557 as of 01 January 2017. This rise is to be offset by a 1.25% drop in employers’ social...

3 January 2017

Suspension of the information thread during Christmas break

Dear readers, as we approach the end of the year we inform you we will be suspending our regular service from the evening of 22 December until the morning of 02 January 2017. As always our...

21 December 2016

Suez: European agreement signed over employment and skills management

On 21 Decembre 2016, management at the Suez group (water treatment, electricity, natural gas, and waste management) signed a European agreement on employment and skills management with a part of...

21 December 2016

Daimler: new company health agreement introduces controversial attendance bonus

On Wednesday 14 December, Daimler announced that a company health agreement had been struck between the company’s management and the central European works council. The agreement, which will be...

16 December 2016

Denmark: a policy to better govern firms with a working environment certification

In spring of this year, several companies bearing the so-called ‘green smiley’ (Krone Smiley) – a certification issued by the Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet), which is...

16 December 2016

Legrand: signs an amendment to its EWC

The amendment signed on 22 June amends the 21 November 2000 agreement, which has already undergone two revisions (first in 2008 and then in 2013).

15 December 2016

Visteon: the automotive electronics supplier has renegotiated a new EWC agreement placing it under British law

Transferring Visteon’s EWC to operate under British law has been one of the American global automotive electronics supplier’s longstanding goals (c.f. article No. 120351). Significant changes in...

15 December 2016

News update as of 15 December 2016

On the menu : unions from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the US have launched a joint appeal for better working conditions for ‘crowdworkers’ , pension reforms definitely approved in...

14 December 2016

EU: the European federation EFFAT puts a comprehensive toolbox online for EWC representatives and coordinators to access

A truly comprehensive range of handbooks, guides, working tools have been prepared by the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions, EFFAT and are being made available to...

14 December 2016

Hungary: tension in the retail sector over the holiday period

Despite a 25% rise in the minimum wage for unskilled workers in 2017 and a further 12% rise in 2018 (c.f. article No. 9927) unions are raising alarm bells over worsening working conditions and...

14 December 2016

Germany: a review of the 2016 collective agreements

According to the independent academic Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) within the Hans-Böckler-Foundation, sector collective agreement workers’ pay rises this year have outstripped...

14 December 2016

Germany: from 2018 Deutsche Bahn rail workers can choose between more money or more time off

Deutsche Bahn (DB) management and the large EVG rail union (Eisenbahn- und Verkehrsgewerkschaft) have written a new page in the history books. In Berlin on 12 December and following five rounds of...

13 December 2016

Spain: employees at the Vitoria Mercedes Benz (Basque region) site approve a new collective agreement against a backdrop of significant union division

The agreement intends for a 1.8% annual pay rise and permanent employment contracts for some 1,000 employees currently on temporary employment contracts. The agreement, negotiated solely by the...

13 December 2016

France: first working meeting on independent drivers between Uber and the CFDT union

Representatives from both Uber and the CFDT transport union met on 12 December to discuss the changing nature of the freelance chauffeur driver profession. At the close of the meeting a working...

13 December 2016

Argentina: planned mobilisation in the banking sector following foreign bank grouping’s refusal to sign agreement on salaries

Argentina’s banking sector appears set for a stormy week. The Asociación Bancaria, the union of banking workers, has announced a 24-hour strike which will take place on Thursday 15 December, and...

9 December 2016

Germany: Continental and the IG Metall and IG BCE unions adopt an innovative agreement for students in dual-training

In Germany dual-training at third level education standard is in full-swing, and the Continental group together with the metals unions IG Metall and the chemicals union IG BCE announced they had...

8 December 2016

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