Labour relations

Week three of the strike organized by the services union Verdi at Deutsche Post DHL (DP-DHL) comes to a close without the social partners moving one step closer to agreement. In fact it has been...

25 June 2015

Italy: Poste Italiane Spa has come to an agreement with the unions over a new business and organizational model for its post-offices

The Italian post services group has reached an agreement with unions over a new business and organizational model to transform its post-offices across the country. The agreement significantly...

25 June 2015

Finland: new wage agreement for 2016

The Finnish social partners including the employers’ confederation EK and the trade union confederations, SAK, AKAVA and STTK have agreed wage rises for 2016 within the framework of the growth and...

24 June 2015

Germany: a quarter of Germany’s businesses are trying to retain staff who look to draw their pension at 63

A year after the pension reforms were introduced allowing workers with 45 years of contributions to draw a full pension at age 63 compared with 65 previously, the Institute for Employment Research...

24 June 2015

Germany: the Strike Republic?

Ongoing strike action at Amazon, Deutsche Post, retail outlets, the Berlin Hospital of Charity, to name just some, upcoming strike action at Lufthansa, or long-term conflict threatening to erupt...

23 June 2015

Denmark: latest elections show a dramatic increase in the number of workers elected to Parliament

Election results from June 18 show the Danish People’s party (Dansk Folkeparti) emerged as the country’s second largest political force and has contributed to increasing the number of workers in...

23 June 2015

Sweden: a new agreement to develop the commerce sector

How can Sweden’s social model cater for e-commerce and the effects of globalization and yet still maintain its integrity? This was the central question that the agreement signed on June 15 2015...

23 June 2015

Germany: Supermarket chain Real’s decision to no longer apply the sector’s collective agreements marks a new stage in their decline

Whilst collective agreements for some 3 million workers in the retail sector are in the throes of being negotiated, the German supermarket chain Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH that belongs to the Metro...

22 June 2015

Spain: new collective agreement for the chemicals industry

On June 18, business leaders and unions have announced an agreement in principle on the sector’s 18th collective agreement. The sector’s majority union federations signed the document including...

22 June 2015

Belgium: a new chemicals sector agreement puts a ‘demographic fund’ in place

As usual, the chemicals sector (CP 207) has opened Belgium’s sectoral collective agreement signing season. On June 08 the social partners agreed on a protocol and on June 16 the union bodies all...

22 June 2015

Germany: conflict escalating at Deutsche Post as DPVKom joins strike action

10 days after services union Verdi went on indefinite strike at Deutsche Post DHL, DPVKom, the Post and Telecoms union, has announced it will join the action. The union started consultations on...

18 June 2015

Italy: FS and Trenitalia sign an agreement with unions over common lines of action to combat assaults on personnel

On June 15, the transport unions concluded an agreement with Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Spa (FS) and Trenitalia Spa* on common action to be taken to combat attacks on their personnel. Assaults...

18 June 2015

Great Britain: Wages rising at fastest rate since the economic crisis

UK wages rose by a near 8-year record high of 2.7% between February and April compared with a year earlier.

18 June 2015

Sweden: negotiations set to restart over industry worker job security agreement (omställningsavtal)

Interrupted in December 2013 negotiations over the “omställningsavtal” agreement, between the PTK (federation of private sector administration employees) and the employers confederation Svenskt...

17 June 2015

Great Britain: Unite members set up specific strike fund to gear up against looming job losses at Rolls Royce

The 12,000 Unite members at Rolls Royce have voted to set up their industrial action fund by paying £1 per month to their Unite union (in addition to their union subs). The ‘war chest’ is expected...

16 June 2015

Germany: faced with labor shortages, businesses are increasingly looking to refugees to fill the gap

Just a few days ahead of the summit meeting between the representatives of the Federal State and the Länders on June 18, Germany’s large employers federations and trade unions have come together...

16 June 2015

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