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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

France: next week the National Assembly deputies commence studying the labor law reform draft against a backdrop of union mobilization

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

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