Labour relations

Micron’s company agreement signed on 14 December was approved by 83% of the company’s workers polled on 11 December. The agreement experiments with more flexible working hours and an increase in...

17 December 2015

Great Britain: Veolia signs an agreement with Prospect giving it exclusive union recognition at the company’s nine energy production units

The Prospect professional union has announced that it is set to become the most significant union in the burgeoning energy-from-waste sector following the signing of an exclusive recognition...

16 December 2015

Germany: the Verdi union renews warning strikes at the Real supermarket chain in a bid to convince management to reapply the sector’s collective agreements

In the run-up to the holiday period, services union Verdi has again called on its members at the German supermarket chain Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH (Real), which is owned by the Metro group, to stop...

16 December 2015

Sweden: Spotify and the TCO union promote the Swedish model

After “eat like a Swede” here comes “work like a Swede”. The Swedish music streaming group Spotify is spreading the country’s gender equality model by implementing a global parental leave policy...

15 December 2015

United States : Uber’s drivers in Seattle may now join a Union

The City Council of Seattle decided, last Monday, unanimously that Uber’s drivers may form a Union to negotiate their wages and work conditions.

15 December 2015

Great Britain: agreement on pensions at the British subsidiary of EDF

Members of the GMB union and Unison approved an agreement secured by their representatives over pensions at EDF’s British subsidiary. A rarity in the agreement, according to the unions, is the...

15 December 2015

Italy: the rubber and plastics sectors renew the national collective agreement

On 10 December the social partners in the rubber and plastics sectors concluded an agreement to renew the national collective agreement for the period from 01 January 2016 until 31 December 2018...

15 December 2015

Germany: the Federation of Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) launches a nationwide action program facilitating refugees’ inclusion into the labor market

While the number of officially recorded asylum seekers topped the one million mark at the start of December, debate continues unabated in Germany over refugees’ job prospects as well as over the...

14 December 2015

Italy: sharp rise in indefinite employment contracts in the agency work sector

The Assolavoro Observatory, the employers’ association in the agency sector, published data on contracts concluded in the sector for September 2015. The main news is that the number of indefinite...

14 December 2015

Portugal: social consultation starts over the minimum wage

Antonio Costa’s new socialist government has launched a debate on raising Portugal’s minimum wage. The Prime Minister invited the country’s social partners in person to the first social...

11 December 2015

Belgium: social partners conclude an agreement on the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on economic unemployment

In the evening of 09 December, both unions and business leaders concluded an agreement over government proposals on both the return to work for those on long-term illness leave as well as on...

10 December 2015

Great Britain: CWU signs a radical new job security and attendance pattern agreement with BT telecommunications

Members of the Communications Union (CWU) have strongly backed the ‘Transformation Agreement’ their union negotiated with BT Consumer operations, the customer care and service operations wing of...

9 December 2015

Germany: management at Siemens together with the company’s central works council and the IG Metall union collaborate to stimulate employee creativity by way of an ‘innovation fund’

In a joint declaration published on 08 December the Siemens works council (WC) and the IG Metall union announced they had concluded an agreement with management at the German industrial giant that...

9 December 2015

Italy: Michelin comes to agreement with unions over its reorganization plan

Following worker mobilization, the French tyre maker came to an agreement with the unions over reorganization in Italy’s Piedmont region where it employs some 3,700 workers. In the agreement one...

7 December 2015

United States: the UAW strikes an historic victory in the U.S. south during union elections at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee

The United Auto Workers union UAW has finally got its foot in the door of the Volkswagen plant at Chattanooga in Tennessee. The skilled trades workers on the Passat assembly line voted by 108 in...

7 December 2015

Netherlands: PostNL signs a new five-year agreement to help manage its upcoming business reorganisation

In October 2015 management at PostNL together with the unions FNV, CNV, and VHP2 concluded an agreement in principle over a social plan for the Dutch postal operator. Employees voted in favour and...

4 December 2015

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