Labour relations

About 300 engineering service workers at Kone (installation and maintenance of lifts, escalators, moving walkways/autowalks, doors, and loading bay areas) have begun a fourteen week program of...

9 April 2015

Italy: April promises to be a troubled month in the social arena

Employees in the tourism sector as well as those working in Telecom Italia and not forgetting those who work in the private Rail Company NTV are expected to mobilize this month making for a tense...

7 April 2015

Italy: collective agreement renewals becoming increasingly difficult

By the end of January more than 7 million Italian workers including 2.9 million in the public sector had been nervously waiting for the renewal of their collective agreements and their company...

7 April 2015

Safran: new European framework agreement for developing skills and career paths uploaded

The agreement (see our article 8988) is now available on our website.

2 April 2015

Russia: AvtoVAZ offers mutual contract termination for employees close to retirement

The number one automobile manufacturer in Russia, Avtovaz — a subsidiary of Renault-Nissan —, is offering compensation to older employees to encourage them to retire or take early retirement. This...

2 April 2015

Italy: last-minute agreement on renewal of national collective agreement in the banking sector

A gross monthly increase of 85 euros over 4 years, an 8% wage increase for young workers employed, a guarantee that if a bank merges or is sold, the employees concerned will keep their permanent...

2 April 2015

Norway: pragmatic wage negotiations

“We’ve won”, claimed Skogen Lund, president of NHO (the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) and Gerd Kristiansen, president of LO (the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions) at the conclusion...

1 April 2015

Japan: big businesses deliver record wage rises

Toyota Motor Corp., the country’s industry leader in terms of this Spring’s (Shunto) wage negotiations has agreed with its trade union a 4000¥ (31 €) rise in monthly wages, representing the...

1 April 2015

Italy: more flexibility in return for higher wages contained in the for the services sector agreement (excl. tourism)

On March 30 and after a year of negotiations, the employers’ General Confederation of Italian Commerce and Tourism confederation, Confcommercio, together with the unions signed Italy’s largest...

1 April 2015

Suez Environnement: signature of a European agreement on gender equality in the workplace

Together, Suez Environnement, the European Federation of Public Service Unions EPSU, and the special negotiation group for the agreement, signed on March 31, a European agreement on gender...

31 March 2015

Sweden: tripartite discussion over improved use of immigrant workers skills

A fast-track (snabbspår) to suitable work. This is what the Swedish social partners are aiming for so that improved integration into the workplace can be achieved for immigrants looking to settle...

31 March 2015

Germany: a 2.8% rise in chemical sector wages plus significant increases in employer contributions to the ‘Demographic Fund’

A 2.8% wage rise over 17 months and over 24 months an almost doubling of employer contributions to the sector’s ‘Demographic Fund’. Thus were the results of collective negotiations in the chemical...

30 March 2015

Italy: renewed union opposition to the Jobs Act

In reply to a call by Fiom, the metals branch of the CGIL union, roughly 15,000 Italian turned out onto the streets of Rome on Saturday March 28 to protest increasing insecurity in the jobs market...

30 March 2015

Safran: European framework agreement for developing skills and career paths

On March 25 the French company together with the European union federation IndustriALL Europe signed an agreement on professional and occupational development. The agreement contains some common...

30 March 2015

Germany: a plethora of different bonuses for workers in automobiles, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals

It’s fast becoming a tradition: each good year for the German economy sees a plethora of different bonuses being paid to workers, primarily in the automobile, chemicals and pharmaceuticals...

27 March 2015

Gestamp: the Spanish automotive supplier sets up a EWC

On 29 January 2015, the company Gestamp, a Spanish automobile equipment manufacturer which employs close to 19,000 people in Europe, has signed an agreement to set up a European works council. The...

26 March 2015

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