Labour relations

Since the financial crisis back in 2006, German trade unions have extended both their presence in German companies and their political influence at national level. They are now reconciled with...

4 March 2015

Great Britain: significant agreement over industrial relations at Royal Mail

Barely a year after signing a landmark agreement in February 2014, both the privatized British postal delivery group Royal Mail and the CWU union appear, in Lionel Sampson’s (CWU) words, to have...

4 March 2015

Great Britain: the GMB succeeds in signing more new union recognition agreements

Data shows that unions continue to sign new recognition agreements and gain new representation and bargaining rights for their members. Even if the actual number of signed agreements is lower than...

3 March 2015

Nordea: together with the four Nordic unions, employees from the Polish subsidiary establish a new union in Poland

Union cooperation in Nordea has contributed to a new union for employees of the group’s Polish subsidiary, who had up until now been only lightly unionized. The underlying objective is to...

2 March 2015

United States: Silicon Valley bus drivers unionize

Silicon Valley’s support workers are joining forces. Shuttle bus drivers for Apple, Yahoo, Ebay, Zynga, Genetech, and Amtrak have voted for representation by Teamsters Local 853 with a view to...

2 March 2015

Allianz SE: revision to the employee participation agreement

On July 03, 2014 an agreement revising an earlier one (2006) covering employee participation in the Allianz insurance company was signed during the SE works council meeting. The progress of...

27 February 2015

Switzerland: extended working hours are ‘negotiated’ in response to the soaring Swiss franc

On January 15, 2015 the Swiss central bank lifted its cap on the Swiss Franc leading to a soaring currency. As a result more and more Swiss businesses, for the most part industrial exporters, have...

27 February 2015

France: the Prime Minister presents the main points of reforms to social dialogue in businesses as well as the 2015 Social Agenda.

As announced after the social partners failed to agree on personnel representation bodies, the government is stepping in to “fully assume its responsibilities” and at the end of March/beginning of...

26 February 2015

Great Britain: firms are using a record 1.8 million zero-hours contracts

According to statistics from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) August 2014 saw firms reaching yet another record high in zero-hours contracts – they do not guarantee a minimum number of...

26 February 2015

Greece: Alexis Tsipras’ government’s list of reforms is approved by the Eurozone finance ministers

The Greek Minister for finance,Yanis Varoufakis detailed on six pages the reforms his government intended to implement. The list of reforms in exchange for an extension of financial aid was...

25 February 2015

Spain: unease within the CCOO over remuneration in the confederation’s financial services section

After the Spanish daily paper revealed a system of supplementary financial payments made to leaders and delegates in the financial services section of the COMFIA CCOO, the confederation has...

25 February 2015

Brazil: an unprecedented social crisis in the automobile industry

On February 20, almost 5,200 workers at the General Motors Co. factory, in Campos near Sāo Paulo, paralyzed production by downing tools in protest at GM’s proposal to layoff 800 workers. The...

25 February 2015

Germany: pilot agreement signed in the metals sector in Baden-Württemberg covering salaries, vocational training and early retirement

Collective negotiations in the metals sector culminated in a final 16-hour negotiation marathon in Böblingen, Baden- Württemberg ending at five in the morning with a pilot agreement on salaries...

24 February 2015

GEFCO: implementation of a European Works Council

GEFCO, a world standard in industrial and automobile logistics has established a European Works Council from an agreement signed on February 18 and is set to be implemented on March 01, 2015. The...

24 February 2015

United States : WalMart raises its minimum wage

WalMart has made a U turn on its employment policy. The largest private employer in America will increase its minimum hourly wage to $9 in April and even more, $10 by next February. That new rate...

23 February 2015

Great Britain: powerful parliamentary committee continues to make its presence felt in employment matters

The Sports Direct company founder, Mike Ashley, is being called before Members of Parliament (MPs) at the House of Commons over the treatment of employees at the company’s USC retail business and...

20 February 2015

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