Labour relations

23.5% of board members in FTSE 100 companies are women, according to the most recent report by Women on Boards. This new figure confirms that the UK is on its way to the goal of 25% of such...

26 March 2015

Austria: one year wage agreement in the electro and electronics industry including a ‘free-time’ option that is guaranteed until 2025

On March 17, the electro and electronics industry social partners agreed to a 2% wage rise for the 50,000 employees in the sector. At the same time the Pro-GE union (industry) and the DPA-dip...

24 March 2015

Great Britain: electronic balloting for strike action on the cards?

With just a few weeks to go before the general election, where a Tory victory would see further restrictions on unions’ right to strike, the LibDem Business Secretary Vince Cable is launching a...

24 March 2015

Great Britain : Community union achieves end of zero hour contracts at postal company, Whistl

The Community union has achieved a breakthrough by negotiating an end to zero hour contracts for its members at Whistl. It has done so through a partnership approach with the employer which has...

23 March 2015

Airbus Group: agreement on employee involvement in the SE (European Company)

At the beginning of March, the aeronautics group, together with the negotiation Group specifically formed for the purpose, signed an agreement covering employee involvement in the future...

23 March 2015

Brazil: 2014, a good year for collective bargaining

On Thursday March 19, the Brazilian trade union related Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socio-Economic Studies (DIEESE) released a report that showed 91.5% of employee/employer...

20 March 2015

ThyssenKrupp: signs a global framework agreement on minimum labor standards.

On March 16, ThyssenKrupp together with the group's works council, the German metal workers union IG Metall, and IndustriALL Global Union signed a global framework agreement on minimum labor...

20 March 2015

Solvay: Forum for international social dialogue set up

For the first time, from 4 to 6 March, the Belgian chemical company organised the “Solvay Global Forum”, platform for international social dialogue. Jean-Christophe Sciberras, Group Director of...

18 March 2015

Ireland: government programme on industrial relations for the coming months

During an industrial relations conference, the TD Minister for Business and Employment, Ged Nash, discussed the labour programme led by the Irish government, covering the areas of minimum wage and...

17 March 2015

United Kingdom: minimum wage to rise by 3%

Less than two months before the general election, the government has announced that the minimum wage will be increased as of 1 October, going up to £6.70 per hour (9.32 EUR) from £6.50 (9.04 EUR)...

17 March 2015

Spain: national framework agreement on employment and collective bargaining stuck on issue of salaries

Employers and trade unions have been negotiating for months regarding the renewal of the framework agreement which will establish the basis for collective bargaining for 2015 to 2017. It is...

16 March 2015

United States: United Steelworkers bring six-week strike to an end after agreement with refinery companies

On 12 March, trade unionists from United Steelworkers and envoys from Shell, representing around 15 oil refineries in California, Texas and other states, finally reached an agreement, following...

16 March 2015

Austria: opening of collective negotiations in industrial sector and agreement in finance sector

In Austria we are seeing the beginning of the “spring of collective negotiations”. On Wednesday 11 March, social partners from the banking and insurance sectors announced that they had reached an...

12 March 2015

Belgium: unions promise more demonstrations until the end of March as they protest Government measures

After having assembled 10,000 in Brussels on March 11, the common union front is looking to to keep up the pressure on the government that has recently modified an agreement with the social...

12 March 2015

United States: half of America’s States have now adopted anti-union legislation

Wisconsin’s fast tracking of a new law that restricts union financing illustrates the election leverage for Republican candidates of such legislation and it may not be long before a majority of...

12 March 2015

Italy: two unions from the banking sector, Fiba-Cisl and Dircredito (for senior staff), announce their merger

The independent union Dircredito and Fiba-Cisl announced their merger, creating a new union within the Cisl (Confederation of Trade Unions in Italy), named FIRST (Italian Federation Network for...

12 March 2015

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