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Two former IT employees at the Walt Disney Park in Orlando, Florida are taking their former employer to court for having replaced them with young Indian workers residing in the United States...

26 January 2016

Italy: a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’ exclusively destined for paying casual labor

The latest report by the Observatory for unstable employment carried out for the National Social Security Institute (INPS) has revealed a boom in the use of ‘vouchers’, that were originally...

25 January 2016

Great Britain: the CAC delivers a significant ruling on EWCs

On 19 January the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), a labour tribunal with responsibility for EWC issues, delivered its decision in a dispute between the employers’ representatives of the newly...

22 January 2016

Sweden: the union confederation LO fears a weakening in its position following a scandal affecting one of its unions (Kommunal)

“Inacceptable”. Such is the reaction of a large section of the Kommunal (Municipality employees) union’s membership, following revelations in the Aftonbladet daily publication over extravagant...

22 January 2016

News update as of 21 January 2016

On the menu this week: Italy’s main CGIL union launches a project for a “Universal labor rights charter” for all workers, subordinate or otherwise. France and Germany drive a revision to an EU...

21 January 2016

Germany: bolstered by increased membership numbers, the IG Metall union intends “to conquer the world of digital work”

On 20 January 2016, in Frankfurt, during the annual conference of the metals and electro-technical union IG Metall, its new president Jörg Hofman, announced that last year the organization had...

20 January 2016

Sweden: disparate claims from unions face a united employers’ front

Unions, presented separate demands from what is a fractured front, on the day before the start of negotiations. The two principal groups “Facken inom industri” (Union of industrial trade unions)...

20 January 2016

Putting online an agreement that established a single works council for two European companies; Christian Dior SE and LVMH SE

Two European companies with a single common personnel representation body. The arrangement to put a single works council in place was chosen in an agreement signed by Christian Dior SE and LVMH SE...

20 January 2016

Russia: employees suffering from a crisis in the automobile sector

Russia’s automobile sector is going through its worst crisis for fifteen years. According to the Association of European Businesses (AEB), new vehicles sales plunged by more than a third in 2015...

19 January 2016

Finland: shop opening hours liberalized

In a bid to boost the economy, Finland’s government has just fully liberalized shop trading hours that took effect from the start of 2016. Unions in the retail sector are however wary of a...

19 January 2016

France: President François Hollande launches his “urgent plan” to combat unemployment

On 18 January, France’s president unveiled a series of measures to leaders of both the unions and employer’ bodies aimed at stopping the country’s unemployment from accelerating. The measures...

18 January 2016

Norway: in the face of the oil crisis, unity is sacrosanct

Redundancy announcements in the oil sector continue and Statoil is no exception since a global cost cutting program it launched several years ago ahead of consequences from the expected oil crisis...

18 January 2016

Spain: a new framework agreement for ArcelorMittal restores some of the advantages workers had forgone at the height of the economic crisis

On 15 January, the CCOO, UGT, ELA, and LAB unions announced they had concluded an agreement in principle on ArcelorMittal’s fifth framework agreement. Following years of effort by the company’s...

18 January 2016

Italy: CGIL, Cisl, and Uil put forward a new industrial relations model

On 14 January 2015, the executives at the CGIL, Cisl, and Uil union confederations approved a project for a new industrial relations model called “A modern industrial relations system. Towards...

18 January 2016

INOVYN: signature of an agreement to establish a European Works Council

The Solvay–Ineos joint venture has only recently got off the ground yet the chlorovinyls enterprise has already set up a European Works Council (EWC). On 07 January 2016 the agreement, negotiated...

14 January 2016

Great Britain: ACAS sounds the warning bell over bullying and harassment at work

The conciliation and arbitration service ACAS is warning that workplace harassment is a growing phenomenon in the UK and is calling on companies to change how they tackle the problem.

14 January 2016

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