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30 September 2016

France: Orange signs its first agreement on digital transformation

Orange signed an agreement with three trade union bodies representing 58.5% of its employees (CFDT-F3C, CGT-FAPT, FO-Com) that frames the multinational telecommunication giant’s digital...

29 September 2016

France: the metals sector signs a landmark agreement allowing working time adjustments to extend over a three-year reference period

This jobs agreement was finalized on 23 September and secured signatures from at least of four of the five relevant trade union organizations (FO, CFTC, CFDT, and CFE-CGC) with the CGT set to...

28 September 2016

Great Britain: BMW looks to prune pensions for 5,000 staff

German automaker BMW, which also produces the Mini and Rolls Royce has announced plans to close its defined benefits pension plans. This will entail moving 5,000 current UK employees over to the...

28 September 2016

Germany: 2016-2019 collective negotiations schedule

The 2016 collective negotiations are entering their final phase with some heavyweight wage and collective agreement negotiations still outstanding by the end of the year including Deutsche Bahn...

26 September 2016

Austria: autumn’s collective negotiations start with the metals sector

On Monday 26 September Austria’s metallurgy sector unions presented their demands at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ) starting off the country’s traditional autumn round of collective...

26 September 2016

Spain: ECJ decision on equal treatment of permanent and temporary workers regarding termination compensation reignites debate on job security

Following the European Court of Justice ruling, which granted the same rights to an individual on a short term contract as those enjoyed by people on permanent contracts (see article nº9818)...

23 September 2016

News update as of September 22, 2016

On the menu: strikes, strikes, and more strikes (Belgium's targeted strikes, Brazils banks on strike, Norway's oil sector strike), Germany's co-determination is under threat, new US rules for...

21 September 2016

Spain: mobilization by call centers demanding a breakthrough in the sector’s collective negotiations

The UGT, CCOO and CGT unions have called for a series of mobilizations in the call center sector throughout the month of September and they have also called for staged two-hour work stoppages on...

21 September 2016

Canada: General Motors comes to agreement with the Unifor union securing jobs at its three production facilities

At the eleventh hour and just before strike action was due to start on 20 September, management at US carmaker General Motors (GM) and the Unifor union clinched a deal set to run for four years...

21 September 2016

United States: care services platform Care.com is to provide a system for self-employed carers to receive social benefits

In the US, where according to the National Domestic Workers Alliance two thirds of care professionals don’t have a health insurance program, the Care services platform Care.com announced it was...

19 September 2016

Spain: Basque nationalist unions mobilize against a framework agreement signed in July signed by both the CCOO and UGT

The Basque nationalist unions are up in arms. They are protesting a framework agreement on collective negotiations that was signed on 22 July by the regions employers’ confederation Confebask and...

19 September 2016

Bulgaria: the new list of representative from trade unions and employers at the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation (NCTC)

The decision taken by the Bulgarian government in August to recognize as representative at the national level two trade unions and five employers’ associations is under heavy critics from the...

15 September 2016

Greece: labor law negotiations recommence between Greece and its creditors

Once again representatives of Greece’s creditors (ECB, EU, IMF) visited Athens to assess the reforms already underway or intended by the Alexis Tsipras government. At the center of the discussions...

15 September 2016

Portugal: the CGTP union is organizing a week of mobilization in companies

On 26 September the CGTP will be calling for better pay via the launch of a week of mobilization within companies. The Communist leaning central union body wants to start a debate on pay during a...

15 September 2016

Germany: faced with the difficult job of integrating asylum seekers into the jobs market both unions and employers are putting solutions forward

While in Germany the migrant issue is under bitter discussion and is threatening Chancellor Angela Merkel’s political future, two recent studies, one from the trade union linked Hans-Böckler...

14 September 2016

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