Labour relations

The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is recommending that the big 3 automakers (General Motors, Ford, Fiat Chrysler Auto) together set up a common platform for purchasing healthcare. The idea, born...

4 September 2015

Germany: IG Metall and employers divided over working hours and services contracts

While the Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, Andrea Nahles gets set this autumn for a draft law on a framework for services contracts as well as an amendment to the current legislation...

3 September 2015

Great Britain: controversy building over processing charges for customers’ tips after a pay sensitive summer

The battle for waiters and waitresses to receive their full tips has heated up over the summer. A host of restaurants (Angus Steak Houses, ASK Italian and Zizzi, Café Rouge, Prezzo, Strada, Pizza...

3 September 2015

Myanmar: introduces a minimum wage

Under pressure from both unions and abroad, the Myanmar government has decided to put the long awaited and reclaimed minimum wage in place. The garment and textile sector employing almost 200,000...

2 September 2015

Great Britain: another jump in the number of zero-hours contracts

The number of people in Great Britain employed on zero-hours contracts has risen by almost 20% over a year.

2 September 2015

Italy: agreement for maintaining temporary worker positions at the Melfi Fiat Chrysler Automobile plant

Temporary employment agencies that supply the Fiat Chrysler Automobile (FCA) plant at Melfi together with the unions have come to an agreement over continuing employing temporary staff. It...

2 September 2015

ABN AMRO : global framework agreement with UNI Global Union signed

The banking sector, currently lagging behind other sectors in terms of transnational collective bargaining, looks to be catching up. The Dutch bank is the most recent and The Netherlands first...

2 September 2015

Great Britain: Cameron waters down renegotiation stance with the EU

Up until now British PM David Cameron has favored a total opt-out from European work directives. Recent press reports however indicate that he is willing to water this position down to only...

1 September 2015

India: general strike set for September 02 protesting against government labor reforms

Ten central union organizations have called for a general strike on September 02 to protest against current and future reforms by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. The strike action has...

1 September 2015

Denmark: the 3F union and the Dansk Erhverv Chamber of Commerce have launched a joint campaign to promote temporary work

Highlighting the advantages of temporary work, both the 3F union and Dansk Erhverv the Danish Chamber of Commerce (trade, tourism, business services, IT, welfare services and transportation) are...

1 September 2015

Belgium: government returns after summer break and sets to implement tax shift policies

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

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