Labour relations

National collective agreements governing Italy’s salaries are fostering inequalities in terms of purchasing power and benefiting workers from the South. Thus are the conclusions of a study...

9 June 2016

Finland: government secures an annual increase in working time of 24 hours with no change in pay that will apply to the 300 sector agreements

Following the agreement in March 2016 over the government’s proposed competitiveness pact, which freezes salaries until 2017, raises annual working time by twenty-four hours, lowers the public...

9 June 2016

Turkey: an agreement is signed with a group of businesses in the textile sector

On 03 June, TEKSIF, Turkey’s main textile trade unions signed a three-year agreement with 26 big businesses in the sector that will raise salaries and bonuses for the 9,000 members of the union...

8 June 2016

Denmark: Siemens Wind Power and Arbejdstilsynet (Danish Professional Environmental authority) both tarnished by an epoxide scandal

Since 2012, Siemens Wind Power, along with some 4,000 other Danish businesses has been proudly boasting the Arbejdstilsynet green smiley (Kronesmiley) that recognizes a high quality-working...

8 June 2016

Poland: a union for immigrant Ukrainian workers

On 20 May in Katowice, Poland, Ukrainian workers decided to establish their own union with support from the All-Poland Alliance of Trade Unions, the OPZZ. This will mark the first ever migrant...

7 June 2016

Spain: AndBank signs Spain’s first ever financial sector professionalism agreement

Signed on 02 June between the CCOO union and AndBank, a private bank headquartered in Andorra that has been operating in Spain since 2012, the landmark agreement is the first to set out the...

7 June 2016

Great Britain: Uber drivers strike over pay

On 06 June roughly 1,000 drivers with the high profile private hire transport company, Uber, stepped on the brakes for a 24 hour work stoppage in Birmingham in protest at reductions in passenger...

7 June 2016

Spain: auto sector’s competitiveness agreements starting to yield results

Spain’s unions are thrilled. Against a backdrop of a slow improvement in the country’s labor market, albeit still with more than 20% unemployment, the auto sector continues to make good progress...

6 June 2016

Sweden: a collective agreement making the temporary employment sector more attractive

Collective negotiations that came to a close in Sweden on 18 May confirmed the increasing importance of the temporary employment sector, especially given the undercurrent of unemployment in the...

6 June 2016

Italy: sector collective bargaining mechanisms are defunct

Sector collective negotiations, which have governed Italy’s union-employer relations for over twenty years, would appear to have hit a roadblock. In the metals sector, deadlocked discussions over...

3 June 2016

France: a majority agreement for renewing social dialogue is signed at Solvay

An imperative for harmonizing social dialogue following Solvay’s purchase of Rhodia, the majority agreement signed on 31 May between management at the chemicals group and the union bodies CFDT and...

2 June 2016

Germany: the social partners together with the government recommend setting up ‘business laboratories’ to test mobile working

On 31 May the working group on ‘a digital working world’, chaired by Andréa Nahles, the Minister for Employment and Social Affairs and Jörg Hoffmann, the president of the IG Metall union, and...

2 June 2016

Germany: chemicals and energy sector negotiations get started

Following the recent conclusion of agreements in the metals and construction sectors it is now the turn of the important chemicals and energy sectors to renegotiate their sector agreements. At the...

1 June 2016

A study on management perspectives on European Works Councils

What do business leaders think of European Works Councils (EWCs)? What value-added do these bodies bring? Are EWCS cost-efficient? These were the questions to which researchers at the Belgian...

1 June 2016

Switzerland: On 05 June, Swiss citizens will decide whether or not to establish an ‘Unconditional Basic Income’

On Sunday 05 June 2016, Switzerland’s citizens will vote on an issue raised by the BIEN-CH association (Basic income Earth Network) to approve or not the introduction of an unconditional basic...

30 May 2016

United States: the end of unprecedented strike action at Verizon

Forty–four days of strike action at the US East-Coast telecommunications giant Verizon are set to come to a close following a guarantee to create 1,500 well paid US based jobs.

30 May 2016

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