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On 2nd December 2015 , the group, which employs some 7,000 across Europe (including Switzerland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain), signed an agreement with its European Works Council...

20 May 2016

South Korea: employees to sit on the management board of 15 public bodies in Seoul

Going forward, one or two employees will be designated as members of the management boards in fifteen public bodies*. Announced last week by the mayor of country’s capital, the proposal draws on...

20 May 2016

Italy: final agreement for apprenticeships

On 18 May, Italy’s employers’ body, Confinindustria, together with the unions, Cgil, Cisl, and Uil signed a final agreement that sets rules over apprentice remuneration, which is a new provision...

19 May 2016

Germany: the DGB launches the MB-ix index to assess the relationship between co-determination and company sustainability

On 12 and 13 May during a conference on the future of co-determination jointly organized by the Hans Böckler Foundation and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Confederation of German Trade...

18 May 2016

Germany: wage agreement secured for 785,000 building and construction workers

As Wednesday 18 May dawned, and following long drawn-out negotiations, the German building and construction union, the IG BAU, announced that it had secured a wage agreement with the sector’s main...

18 May 2016

Italy: agreement signed to manage upcoming changes at AXA Italia

Following a year of negotiations, on 03 May unions and management signed an agreement that intends to safeguard jobs and skills during AXA Italia’s upcoming restructuring and reorganization. The...

16 May 2016

South Korea: authorities promoting performance related pay within public sector banks

The country’s authorities via the Financial Services Commission (FSC), South Korea’s top financial regulator, are calling on State financial institutions to implement performance related pay...

16 May 2016

Germany: 4.8% wage rise for metals worker

On the morning of Friday 13 May, negotiators from both the employers’ federations (Gesamtmetall) and the union (IG Metall) in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) presented a pilot agreement...

13 May 2016

Finland: coalescence of the three union confederations waxing and waning

Since 2014 Finland’s trade unions have been gearing up for a merger of the country’s three main confederations. Following an initial period when the project seemed to be on track without any major...

12 May 2016

Argentina: more than 200 businesses have committed to not laying off workers despite the recession

At the start of the week, the government of Mauricio Macri, President since 2015, loudly announced that the country’s big businesses had committed to halting any more redundancies ‘despedidos’ for...

12 May 2016

United States: Uber commits to monthly dialogue with the Independent Drivers Guild

California’s ‘ride-hailing’ company, Uber has come to an agreement with drivers of the New York Independent Drivers Guild, which is linked with the International Association of Machinists and...

11 May 2016

Argentina: negotiations in the metals sector come to a close

Following last week’s demonstration and against a backdrop of scheduled mobilizations should negotiations fail, the metals workers’ union, UOM (unión obrera metalúrgica) has signed a 35% wage...

11 May 2016

Norway: a round up of 2016 negotiations

2016 is an important year for negotiations and although the industry pay rise of 2.4% set the tone, several sectors have nonetheless run into negotiations difficulties. Kjetil Olsen, economist at...

10 May 2016

Spain: the UGT union confederation establishes one large industry federation within its ranks and similar moves are on the cards for its services federations

The UGT central union confederation has embarked upon its reorganization program by merging its currently operating federations with an end goal of leaving just three mega-federations covering...

10 May 2016

Great Britain: the construction industry’s union blacklist scandal comes to a close with millions paid in compensation

In excess of £10 million (€12.6 million) is set to be paid out to 256 workers in an agreement reached on 09 May between the Unite union and various construction companies, finally putting an end...

9 May 2016

Germany: employers and unions launch a joint initiative to adapt occupational training to the challenges of ‘Industry 4.0’

Does the content of both the metals and electro-technical sectors’ initial and continuous occupation training programs actually suit the needs of industry’s future needs, i.e. of ‘Industry 4.0’?...

29 April 2016

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