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“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

United Kingdom: aim of one quarter of company board positions being held by women almost achieved

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

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