Labour relations

At the end of July the Belgian government came to agreement over tax reforms to shift some of employees’ tax burden to other areas. The first arrangements for this were presented at the close of...

31 August 2015

United States: The National Labor Relations Board broadens the notion of joint employer

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), (a US government independent agency charged with regulating US labor relations) has just broadened the notion of ‘joint employer’ to extend to all...

31 August 2015

Great Britain: 4% pay rise for Sainsbury’s supermarket staff

Under pressure from campaigning efforts to raise low pay, Sainsbury’s, Britain’s number two supermarket chain, has raised most of its employees’ pay by 4%. This marks a surprise pay rise given...

31 August 2015

Randstad: a new European Works Council (under European Directive 2009/38/EC) replaces its former agreed voluntary structure

Since 1996 the Dutch multinational employment agency has operated under an agreed voluntary information and consultation structure (the Randstad European Platform). On 10 July 2015, together with...

29 July 2015

Belgium: the government starts shifting the tax burden from employment revenue towards a broader spectrum of revenue sources

“An engine for growth and employment,” is how Prime Minister Charles Michel presented the agreement on the 2015 budget adjustment and the 2016 draft budget that was concluded on the night of 22/23...

24 July 2015

Spain: Coca-Cola’s restructuring plan cancelled and company has to give workers back their jobs if they want

Following the court’s cancellation of Coca-Cola Spain’s redundancy plan the company is preparing to reopen its Madrid site as a logistics center whilst keeping its other three sites shut...

24 July 2015

United States : towards a 15$ minimum wage in New York’s fast-food industry

After almost two years of mobilization, a decision by local authorities on Wednesday will see fast–food workers in the State of New York earning a minimum wage of $15 an hour in 2021 (in 2018 of...

23 July 2015

Great Britain: Lloyds Bank Group derecognizes one of its founding trade unions amid intra-trade union discord

The Lloyds Bank Group is to derecognise its biggest union, the Lloyds Trade Union (LTU) that represents some 30,000 members in the group. This results from a breakdown in industrial relations with...

20 July 2015

Italy: Fim and Uilm present a common platform to renew the national metal sector collective agreement

On 16 July both management centers in Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil approved a common platform to renew the metal sector national collective agreement (from 2016-2018) that comes to expiry on 31 December...

20 July 2015

Great Britain: Unite using social media to campaign Pizza Express to fully pass customer tips to its staff

The upmarket pizza restaurant chain, Pizza Express, which has 400 restaurants and over 10,000 employees, is experiencing a social media campaign to force the company to end its practice of...

17 July 2015

Great Britain: Brexit remains a hot topic for the summer

“Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?” Such is the thorny question to which the British will conclusively reply by 2017. This referendum already worries and divides...

16 July 2015

Israel: first agreements over employee transfer conditions signed by Histadrut in the hi-tech sector

On 24 June the Israeli trade union organization Histadrut signed two collective agreements for employees of the Israeli-American company Comverse. The agreements cover conditions for workers due...

16 July 2015

Norway: principle of equal treatment breached to the benefit of temporary work agencies

On 06 July 2015 the Labor Administration adopted a regulation allowing temporary work agencies to waive equal treatment rules under certain conditions. Business leaders bodies have welcomed the...

16 July 2015

Germany: two forward thinkers to take over at the helm of IG Metall from October 2015

IG Metall, the world’s biggest sectoral trade union with 2.3 million members is about to renew its management team. On 14 July management at the union designated its candidate to succeed the...

15 July 2015

International Aerospace industry unions adopt an action plan to bolster their influence and combat precarious work

Representatives of 25 aerospace unions in 16 countries across 5 continents came together on July 01 and 02 for a global conference on strengthening union presence in the sector and structuring...

15 July 2015

Belgium: agreement for the large-scale retail sector on work organization and security inside the shops

Negotiations were long and tense between the union organizations and COMEOS, the commerce sector’s employers’ federation but ended in agreement on 29 June. Disagreement had centered on the issue...

15 July 2015

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