Labour relations

The digital revolution is at play in the insurance world, as in many other sectors. With changes that should take place in 2020, the management and group European council of AXA are going to use...

2 July 2014

Great Britain: The Unite union announces an “American-style campaign” to shame trade and hotel groups paying below the living wage

The Unite union at its 3rd policy conference warned supermarkets and hotel groups paying below the ‘living wage’ that they are to be targeted as part of a renewed effort to shame them into paying...

2 July 2014

Germany: Spanish youngsters in Berlin organize to defend their social rights

The Union Action Group (UAG) born in February is a platform to defend Spanish immigrants’ rights and put them in touch with German unions. Appeared in the wake of the Indignant movement and based...

2 July 2014

Germany: 4.5-percent wage increase over 24 months in the banking industry

After a dispute characterized by major warning strikes, the Verdi services union and associations of private and public banks agreed, on Monday, June 30, on a 4.5-percent wage increase divided in...

2 July 2014

Great Britain: soon, Nestlé will pay living wage, higher than minimum wage, to all its employees, including temps

Nestlé, the nutrition company, has promised to pay all its employees at the level of the living wage, including agency workers and workers employed by subcontractors, by 2017. This is a first for...

1 July 2014

United States: businesses’ religious liberty must take precedence over paying for their employees’ contraception

The US Supreme Court was very divided on this issue. However, on Monday, June 30, a majority of judges ruled that, by requesting that employers that provide their workers with health insurance pay...

1 July 2014

Germany: the return of the conflict between EVG, the majority rail union, and GDL, the small train drivers union, is putting the Deutsche Bahn in an awkward situation

The next collective negotiations at the Deutsche Bahn promise to be particularly complicated. Adopted in 2008 after a spectacular conflict, the “cooperation agreement” regulating the relations...

1 July 2014

Great Britain: Parcelforce, Royal Mail’s parcels division, strikes deal with CWU on work on Sunday

The CWU communications’ union has announced that negotiations have been successfully concluded with Parcelforce Worldwide over the impact of the new seven-day service on staff’s working...

30 June 2014

Great Britain: government takes step to support whistleblowing

Whereas the kingdom is shaken by a scandal around bullying of workers who want to denounce bad behaviors at the National Health Service (NHS), the Cameron administration tried to calm things down...

27 June 2014

United States: businesses and States go round the minimum wage block in Washington

After Gap, Ikea has announced a 17-percent increase to its minimum wage. In the US, some large businesses, States and several cities are increasing minimum wage without waiting for the reform of...

27 June 2014

Solvay: EWC agreement renewed

On June 13, the management of the Belgian chemical group and the EWC renewed the anticipation agreement establishing the European representation structure. This agreement includes the novelties...

26 June 2014

Tunisia: 6-percent wage increase in the private sector

On June 23, the social partners agreed to a 6-percent wage increase in the private sector. The negotiations took place at central level but the deal provides for a return to sectoral negotiations...

26 June 2014

Brazil: World Cup reveals occupational health and safety flaws

In 3 years, 9 workers died on the World Cup’s sites, a human tribute that is very telling of working conditions in Brazil. In 2013, there were 700,000 accidents, 15,000 injuries and 2,700 deaths...

26 June 2014

Brazil: the decrease in statutory working time, backed by unions, won’t happen any time soon

Outstanding in Congress for 19 years, the issue of statutory working time has come back into the national agenda with a demonstration in Brasilia on June 4 organized by all those who defend...

25 June 2014

Emerson: agreement establishing European Works Council

The agreement signed on June 18 between the management of the American engineering services group and the SNB is subject to British law. It supervises the information/consultation procedure...

25 June 2014

Italy: negotiations for the renewal of the national collective agreement in the banking industry are looking complicated

Yesterday, June 23, after the second bargaining meeting for the renewal of the banking sector’s national collective agreements, unions pointed to “enormous and unfathomed divisions” between their...

24 June 2014

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