Labour relations

On January 31, the Helsinki Court of First Instance pronounced a verdict in favor of a company handing out flyers and free newspapers, which applied a collective agreement signed with a union...

26 February 2014

Germany: Labor Minister Andrea Nahles launches vast consultation of the social partners about the introduction of statutory minimum wage

After getting, at the end of January, the government to adopt her first highly-controversial bill on the pension reform, Andrea Nahles, SPD Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, is now...

25 February 2014

Spain: gender equality, the victim of the crisis and labor law reform

Seven years after the Equality Act came into force, forcing businesses to implement gender equality measures, representatives from the CCOO and UGT unions are observing difficulties in the field...

24 February 2014

Australia: Rio Tinto signs landmark agreement with AWU union

After several years of conflict, Rio Tinto and the Australian Workers’ Union reached a landmark agreement following a request made by employees. The deal aims to maintain job security to the...

24 February 2014

Italy: Alitalia and unions sign agreement to manage ‘surplus’ staff

Alitalia and the Filt-CGIL, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti and UGLtrasporti unions signed an agreement on the management of the 1,900 ‘surplus’ workers listed by the group. The solution chosen to avoid...

21 February 2014

Germany: real wages went down by 0.2 percent in 2013

According to the latest figures published by the Federal Statistics Agency (Destatis), for the first time since 2009, German wages are down. Indeed, in 2013, inflation (1.5 percent) was higher...

20 February 2014

Great Britain: Atos criticized for work capability assessment awarded by the governement

In 2011, 10,600 people which Atos had not declared ‘unfit to work’ died within the next 6 weeks. It is after reminding this shocking number – confirmed by government statistics – that hundreds of...

20 February 2014

Denmark: hotel/catering social partners reach agreement renewing collective agreement

On February 16, the 3F Privat Service Hotel og Restauration union and Horesta for employers reached an agreement to renew the collective agreement in the hotel and catering industry. It covers...

20 February 2014

Spain: facing a boycott campaign, Coca Cola abandons layoffs but still shuts the 4 plants down

Nearly a month after Coca-Cola Iberian Partners announced that it would shutter 4 of its 11 plants, Coca Cola Spain is worried about the threat to boycott its protest and about growing social...

20 February 2014

United States: overview of the UAW’s defeat in VW’s Chattanooga plant

The UAW was supposed to win the election with flying colors. Never had a company’s management been so supportive of a union organizing its plant. And yet, on February 14, the results hit like a...

19 February 2014

Belgium: government validates Caterpillar restructuring

Employment Minister Monica De Coninck has just approved the content of the social chapter of the heavy restructuring announced by the management of Caterpillar Gosselies (Charleroi) on February...

19 February 2014

Russia: layoffs and short-time working in the auto industry

Russian carmakers are fully experiencing the drop in sales on the domestic market. AvtoVaz, GAZ and UAZ, the 3 major local companies, have seen orders for new cars and light commercial vehicles...

19 February 2014

Denmark: commerce social partners renew collective agreement

On February 16, Dansk Erhverv for employers and HK Handel for unions signed an agreement renewing the retail trade industry’s collective agreement (butiksoverenskomsten), which covers about...

18 February 2014

Benelux: social summit on the fight against social dumping

The Benelux social summit took place of February 13 and gathered the Prime Ministers and Ministers of Labor and/or Social Affairs of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. This meeting was...

18 February 2014

Germany: EON signs collective agreement on pay and early retirement

On February 14, the IG BCE and Verdi unions as well as the negotiators for the two regional employers’ organizations (AVE and AGV Bayern) presented the outline of a collective agreement on pay and...

18 February 2014

Italy: Enel and unions sign framework agreement to try a new work-study program

On February 13, Enel Group and the Filctem-CGIL, Flaei-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions signed a groundbreaking agreement to try, for the first time in Italy, work-study training in upper second...

17 February 2014

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