Labour relations

On Thursday 28 April, more than 170,000 demonstrated against the draft labor law reform that is set for debate next week in the National Assembly. Seven unions calling for the text to be withdrawn...

29 April 2016

Norway: agreement for the postal sector

In just 48 hours the Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund (NTF/ Norwegian transport workers) together with the employers’ body NHO Logistikk og Transport (NHO LT) struck an agreement covering several...

29 April 2016

Estonia and the Nordic countries: employers look to promote immigration

Welcome to Estonia! This was the banner slogan under which the country’s confederation of employers’, Eesti Tööandjate Keskliit’s annual conference was held at the beginning of March and which...

28 April 2016

Sweden: a roundup of the 2016 collective agreement negotiations

‘Much ado about nothing’. Thus Sweden’s 2016 round of negotiations come to calm close after having commenced amid much hot air and controversy. Recalcitrant unions toed the line and kept to the...

28 April 2016

Nokia: puts a support package in place for workers laid off after mass redundancies

As expected, Nokia’s acquisition of Franco-American rival Alcatel-Lucent has had significant social consequences. Although the Finnish group did not provide any global figures beyond 1,300 job...

27 April 2016

Netherlands: PostNL postal workers conclude collective agreements over pay and working conditions

PostNL management and the trade unions FNV Public Interest, Union of Postal Employees, CNV Public Services and VHP2 have reached an agreement in principle over pay and working conditions for...

27 April 2016

Norway: towards more senior women in the oil and gas sector

The Nordic Research Institute, Norut has just published a study* on gender representation and influence in the oil and gas sector, which was commissioned by the employers’ body OLF and follows up...

27 April 2016

Inditex: the fashion retail group is turning to union experts for assistance in implementing the global framework agreement on fundamental rights along its supply chain

On 25 April the Spanish fashion retail giant and the international union federation IndustriALL Global signed a global agreement that will deploy trade union experts per country or region who will...

26 April 2016

Argentina: a banking sector agreement is struck and the metals sector starts to mobilize

Following negotiations marked by a series of mobilizations, a banking sector agreement was eventually forthcoming during Argentina’s overall sectoral negotiations. The trade union secured an...

26 April 2016

Great Britain: even City bosses are re-examining their own salaries

Is the era of the ‘fat cat’ coming to an end? This is the question that the UK is starting to ask itself as a shocking report, paradoxically presented by some of the City’s biggest leaders...

25 April 2016

United States: in a bid to mollify Uber driver demands to convert to salaried employees, the company will pay up to $100 million and offer new guarantees against arbitrary driver deactivation

Non-taxi, on-demand chauffeurs in California and Massachusetts launched a class action calling for drivers to be reclassified as salaried employees. On 20 April, Uber announced it had come to an...

22 April 2016

Japan: modest wage rises from the 2016 annual negotiations

Japan’s annual springtime ‘shunto’ wage negotiations between employers and union have resulted in salary increases for the third year in a row in the country’s large companies, but also in the...

22 April 2016

EU: budget line is published to fund joint actions with EWCs, especially as regards training

The European Commission has published its annual call for proposals on “information, consultation and participation of representatives of undertakings,” which may then be exploited to partially...

21 April 2016

France: confrontation and social transformation for a CGT that is repositioning contest at the heart of its action

Since 18 April, and at 120 years of age, the CGT union confederation held its 51st Congress in Marseille, France. Delegates voted for a call to strike on 28 April (and perhaps beyond) in protest...

21 April 2016

Spain: signature of a new national collective agreement for the banking sector

On 19 April, following fourteen months of meetings and difficult negotiations, an agreement was signed for a banking sector that is preparing itself for a new wave of restructuring. The four-year...

20 April 2016

Great Britain: McDonald’s will no longer require zero hour contract working

British workers at McDonald’s fast-food chain operating under zero-hours contracts that guarantee neither workers’ working hours nor their pay, will now be able to choose to move over to...

20 April 2016

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