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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

Russia: economic crisis weighs on the labor market

Recruitment consultancy firm Antal presented the results of a 2015 study on salaries and the Russian labor market. The study included results from 5,000 respondents from different Russian towns...

13 July 2015

Société Générale: a new addendum to the EWC puts in place a single representation entity for the group in France and Europe

On July 09, Société Générale’s Comité de Groupe France (CGF) (French Works Council) agreed to merge with the EWC. The addendum regulating the operations of the new Comité de Groupe Européen, the...

9 July 2015

Brazil: Dilma Rousseff has launched a new jobs protection program to limit layoffs during crisis periods

In force since July 07, Brazil’s job protection program the PPE aims to support businesses in the industrial sector that are affected by the economic slowdown. The program will subsidize workers’...

9 July 2015

Italy: separate agreement that renews a collective agreement for both Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and CNH Industrial

Following 9 months of negotiations, both FCA and CNH Industrial concluded a separate agreement to renew a collective agreement that runs from 2015 – 2018 and applies to 85,000 employees. It...

8 July 2015

Great Britain: surprise announcement of an obligatory living wage

On Wednesday July 08 and before an incredulous Labour Party David Cameron’s government presented its first 100% Conservative party budget since the party was reelected to power and in it announced...

8 July 2015

Germany: train drivers’ union GDL takes the law on single unions to the Federal Constitutional Court

On July 07, the day following Germany’s President, Joachim Gauck signed the controversial law on single trade unions the corporatist union GDL announced it would soon lodge a complaint against the...

8 July 2015

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