Labour relations

On April 4, the management of the reinsurance group and the special negotiating body renewed the agreement establishing a European Works Council, initially signed in 2009. The first deal already...

24 June 2014

Germany: a survey by the Hans-Böckler union foundation found that the introduction of minimum wage shouldn’t have a negative impact on the employment market

About 2 weeks to the planned adoption by the Bundestag, on July 4, of the bill on the introduction of statutory universal minimum wage amounting to €8.5/hour, the Hans-Böckler foundation released...

24 June 2014

Austria: 2.2 percent increase for the Austrian Post’s 24,000 employees

On Wednesday, June 18, the Post’s social partners agreed on an average 2.2 percent wage increase for all workers in the company. The agreement, which will start on July 1, 2015 and for a year...

23 June 2014

Denmark: for the first time, unions sign a joint collective agreement for all the employees in a company (CGI Danmark)

On June 18, after bargaining for nearly a year, 5 unions - HK/Privat (private sector), PROSA (IT professionals), IDA (engineers), Djøf (lawyers) and Dansk Magisterforening (Masters’ and PhD...

23 June 2014

Nordic countries: a new employers’ organization, Nordic Arctic Business Council, was created

Since May 19, Nordic employers have had a new professional organization, the Nordic Arctic Business Council, which gathers representatives from the key employers’ organizations in Scandinavia. ...

20 June 2014

Germany: Opel management and IG-Metall agree on social plan for Opel’s Bochum plant, set to close in December 2014

After bargaining for more than a year, the management of Opel and the IG-Metall union have adopted a social plan covering the 3,300 Opel workers affected by the closing of the Bochum plant, to...

18 June 2014

Italy: first mobilizations from the “yes unions” at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)

After bargaining for 8 months to renew the group’s collective agreement, which covers about 86,000 workers (see article No. 130166), the unions that signed the agreement – Fim, Uilm, Fismic, UGL...

17 June 2014

Sweden: the number of women on boards has gone up for the first time in 3 years

According to the annual female index of Andra AP-fondens (2nd national pension fund), published on June 4, the share of women on the boards of listed companies has increased for the first time in...

17 June 2014

United States: interview of Jon Hiatt, Chief of Staff & Executive Assistant to the President at the ALF-CIO American union

Seizing the opportunity of his trip to Europe for the Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), we’ve interviewed Jon Hiatt on the American union’s current priorities. He...

17 June 2014

Germany: businesses aren’t training enough apprentices, thus contributing to the growing shortage in skilled workforce

German businesses are complaining of a growing shortage in skilled workers, the new “2014 Education Report,” presented on June 13 by the Ministry of Education and the Conference of the Länder’s...

16 June 2014

Great Britain: despite support from civil society, the GMB union is having a hard time unionizing Amazon workers

Despite a sustained and high profile campaign by the GMB union, Amazon has so far been able to ignore the pressure for change to its regime of pay and work working conditions. This is because...

12 June 2014

Great Britain: general mobilization to defend the energy industry

Faced with the specter of a record shortage of skilled workers in electricity, gas, water or even waste, the sector’s employers presented an unprecedented partnership for which the government is...

11 June 2014

Schneider Electric: new agreement on the involvement of workers in the future European Company (SE)

Signed yesterday, June 10, the agreement on the involvement of workers in the SE will allow Schneider Electric to finalize its conversion into an SE, approved by the General Assembly on May 6. ...

10 June 2014

Zalando: Verdi, the German union, wants to file a complaint against the transformation into a European Company (SE)

The biggest exclusively online seller in Europe just announced that it was becoming a European Company (SE). Along this announcement came the appointment of 3 employee representatives on the...

10 June 2014

Japan: towards the end of sexual division in businesses?

Faced with ramping ageing and falling birth rate, Japan is neglecting one of the assets of its economic recovery: women. In spite of the 1947 Constitution provides for “fundamental gender...

10 June 2014

Italy: Deutsche Bank and Unicredit sign agreements with unions on implementation of provisions on the protection of customers’ privacy to ban remote control of workers

Unicredit and then Deutsche Bank are the two latest firms that signed - both at the end of May - an agreement transposing the banking industry’s national framework agreement signed in April. That...

9 June 2014

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