Labour relations

The year 2014 was marked by strong levels of social mobilisation in Britain, with 733,300 individuals involved in strike action (see article n° 8506). However, in 2015 this number reached just...

29 August 2016

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

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