Labour relations

‘Early Conciliation’ was launched in Britain in April 2014 and requires those thinking of making an Employment Tribunal claim to notify the arbitration service Acas who then tries to resolve the...

8 July 2015

Great Britain: Pressure increasing from shareholders and stakeholders for retailers to pay the living wage

Major retailers like supermarkets (Tesco, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer and Sainsbury’s) as well as clothes chain, Next, are experiencing a barrage of unwanted and critical attention from...

7 July 2015

Société Générale: interview with Jean-François Climent, Director of Industrial Relations, on the global agreement on fundamental rights

On June 03, 2015, Société Générale and UNI Global Union signed a global agreement on fundamental rights (c.f. article No. 9111). Jean-François Climent, Director of Industrial Relations explains...

7 July 2015

Italy: trade unions and civil society present the Workers Act as an alternative to Prime Minister Renzi’s Jobs Act

Put forward as an alternative to the Jobs Act, the Workers Act was presented at the CGIL headquarters head office at Modena. The Sbilanciamoci! network, an array of 51 associations and Catholic...

7 July 2015

Germany: Deutsche Post and Verdi bury the hatchet

The biggest dispute at Deutsche Post for twenty years finally came to a close in the evening of 05 July. At the end of almost four weeks of strike action plus a final 3-day negotiation marathon...

6 July 2015

Italy: Whirlpool concludes a framework agreement with unions as a way to avoid layoffs

After months of mobilization, the metals sector unions secured changes to Whirlpool’s initial restructuring plans involving 2,060 layoffs and the closure of two sites following its purchase of...

3 July 2015

Great Britain: construction union UCATT succeeds in banning the use of umbrella companies by two local authorities

The Construction union, the Union of Construction and Allied Technical Trades (UCATT), has secured its first two major victories in its campaign against the use of ‘umbrella companies’ used by...

2 July 2015

Belgium: oil sector signs new collective agreement

On June 24, Belgium’s oil sector signed its collective agreement for the period 2015/2016. Unions secured the maximum in terms of pay rises as well as improved provisions for quality of life and...

2 July 2015

Germany: longest strike in the history of rail comes to an end

Relief for Germany on the eve of the summer holidays: caught up in a year long apparently intractable dispute, the train drivers’ union GDL together with management at Deutsche Bahn announced on...

1 July 2015

Denmark: government’s new programme banks on growth and jobs in the private sector

Yesterday, on 28 June, new Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen presented his cabinet and his government’s programme. As regards the labour market he is planning, amongst other things, to revise...

29 June 2015

Germany: the strike at Deutsche Post DHL has started a legal free-for-all

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

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