Labour relations

The catalyst for this recent United States action against T-Mobile lies in a court ruling that declared illegal the requirement for employees who bring up sexual harassment cases to sign a...

19 October 2015

Italy: the chemical-pharmaceuticals national collective agreement renewed

On 15 October, employers’ bodies Federchimica and Farmindustria, together with the unions, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl, and Uiltec-Uil, renewed the national collective agreement (NCA) for the period...

16 October 2015

Denmark: robots key for the textile industry to return to the country

Three innovative Danish networks have come together in a pilot project to relocate textile production to Denmark. Robots will be used in the production process. This project is starting in the...

16 October 2015

Belgium: the government presents detailed arrangements concerning the tax shift program

The coalition government has presented concrete measures resulting from an agreement concluded at the end of July (c.f. article No. 9217) over tax reforms that intend to shift some of the tax...

16 October 2015

Italy: labor market showing first signs of recovery

Data from the National Social Security Agency (INPS) show 300,000 new permanent jobs (indefinite employment contracts) were created in the first 8 months of 2015. Are the numbers being boosted by...

15 October 2015

Argentina: Interview with Pablo Micheli, general secretary of the Argentine Workers’ Central Union the Autonomous-CTA

In Argentina with under two weeks to go before the presidential elections on 25 October the various different central trade union bodies are assessing the challenges that lie ahead during the...

15 October 2015

Brazil: banking sector conflict intensifies after a break down in negotiations over renewing the collective agreement

With the closure of 11,400 banking units across the country, the strike activity that has been shaking the banking sector for the past nine days shows no signs of diminishing. The National...

14 October 2015

Italy: Confindustria halts negotiations with unions over reforming the collective bargaining model

After ‘Article 18’, are national collective agreements going to be put on the block? Last week the leader of the employers’ confederation Confindustria announced he was pulling out of talks with...

13 October 2015

Germany: the Federal Constitutional Court rejects a motion brought by three corporatist unions against the ‘single union law’

For the three corporatist unions Vereingung Cockpit (aircraft pilots), Marburger Bund (doctors), and DJV (journalists) who made the constitutional challenge to the Federal Constitutional Court...

13 October 2015

Carrefour: the global agreement on promoting social dialogue, fundamental rights, and diversity aims to establish “a mindset of respect for humans throughout all countries” and to promote “awareness” about fundamental rights amongst Carrefour’s partners

Mathilde Tabary, Director for Social Development and Diversity and Jean-Luc Delenne, Director for Industrial Relations each reply to questions by Planet Labor on the agreement signed by Carrefour...

12 October 2015

Great Britain: Unite union wins health and safety concessions after protracted negotiations at Sellafield

After a eighteenth month dispute involving a variety of forms of industrial action by its 1,200 construction members, the Unite union has won its dispute over health and safety that it has held...

12 October 2015

United States: Fiat Chrysler and the UAW union have concluded a new wage agreement after workers rejected the first one

This time, members of the Union Auto Workers (UAW) union hope that they will have successfully negotiated an agreement with FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) management when the new agreement goes...

12 October 2015

Nokia/Alcatel Lucent: unions from both groups are demanding more information on the industrial plan

In July 2015, the European Commission gave the green light to Nokia’s plan to take-over French company Alcatel-Lucent. For the unions there is clearly an industrial strategy underlying the...

7 October 2015

Great Britain: the Community union moves to broaden its membership ranks and become a lifetime union

The Community general union has announced that it will be recruiting freelance and self-employed workers to reflect both the growth of these workers in the economy at large and their growth in the...

7 October 2015

Argentina: on average 60 unions per year have been set up under the Kirchner era

Argentina’s Employment Ministry has published a report in which it says that in the space of 11 years more than 650 unions have been set up. The country’s rate of unionization at 37% is amongst...

7 October 2015

Germany: 2015 – 2017 collective bargaining schedule

Germany’s collective bargaining year is coming to a close. Only the industrial cleaning and steelworks sectors still have to renegotiate wages and collective agreements before the end of the year...

6 October 2015

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On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...

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On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...

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The agreement reached between Asstel, the employers’ association for Italy’s telecommunications sector, and the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom unions centres on strengthening labour relations to...

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