Labour relations

Known for his radical positions and for being in favor of maximum labor market flexibility, Arturo Fernandez is one of the key figures of the Spanish employers’ sphere. Chair of the Madrid...

25 March 2014

Netherlands: construction social partners temporarily renew their collective agreement to avoid social dumping

The partners in collective bargaining in construction have agreed to reinstall the expired collective agreement for the industry, which expired on 31 December 2013. The employers’ organisation had...

25 March 2014

Norway: new agreement on occupational environment focuses on everyone’s responsibilities

The new “agreement of intent for a more integrative occupational environment” (Intensjonavtale om et mer inkluderende arbeidsliv/IA) was signed on March 4 for the 2014-18 period, by the...

25 March 2014

Spain: going against union recommendations, workers accept the proposals made by Coca-Cola, the bottler

The management of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, exclusive Cola bottler in Spain, announced that 1,700 employees registered to take advantage of the three options offered b the company: voluntary...

24 March 2014

Austria: Court of Auditors criticizes the high rate of early retirement in the public sector, especially the Post and railway

The Austrian Court of Auditors looked at the average retirement age in the public sector, a recurring cause for quarrel and concern in the country. State-controlled private businesses, i.e...

21 March 2014

Germany: agreement on maintaining the wage levels of “traumatized” train drivers “for life”

The GDL train drivers’ union and Deutsche Bahn agreed, on Thursday, March 20, to maintain the wage levels of train drivers unable to keep working after a serious shock, until the end of their...

21 March 2014

Italy: social partners in Bergamo province in the forefront to accompany the early stages of recovery

On March 10, Confindustria, CGIL, Cisl and Uil in Bergamo signed a “general protocol for the development of the territory,” to strengthen competitiveness while increasing flexibility and...

21 March 2014

Great Britain: Unite’s organizing strategy is working

The recent success of the Unite union in gaining recognition at a number of sizeable employers indicates how both its ‘100%’ campaign and leverage strategy are operating and impacting upon...

20 March 2014

Japan: lukewarm 2014 wage negotiations

This year, in Japan, the stakes of the spring collective negotiations (Shunto) were vital for the Abe administration: the tax increase planned for April had to be combined with a wage increase. ...

20 March 2014

Great Britain: Cameron to rescue working parents

In the midst of an election race, the Cameron administration announced that working parents would get, starting in 2015, a £2,000 a year childcare tax break per child under 12. In a country where...

19 March 2014

Germany: IG-Metall and VW OTLG, a Volkswagen subsidiary, strike decisive collective agreement in auto crafts

Whereas the auto trade and repair business is suffering from a major erosion of the collective agreements system, the IG-Metall metalworkers’ union announced, on March 18, that it signed a very...

19 March 2014

Italy: Fabi, the major banking union, placed its convention under the sign of a new banking model

The convention of the Autonomous Federation of Italian Bank Workers (Fabi), which took place in Rome on March 10-14, revolved around a proposal for a new social banking system to solve the crisis...

18 March 2014

Spain: Iberia signs competitiveness agreements

The airline is getting ready to put an end to more than 16 months of social dispute, after signing a series of agreements in principle with unions representing different categories of staff in...

18 March 2014

Great Britain: apparently, the government has won its bet to limit employment disputes

New tribunal fees, limited compensation against unfair dismissals or even the introduction of conciliation to avoid complaints… since it came to power in 2010, the Cameron administration has been...

18 March 2014

Denmark: end of the 2014 sectoral collective bargaining round

Yesterday, March 17, Asbjørn Jensen, the conventional mediator (forligsmand), presented, together with the DA employers’ organization and LO union, the draft agreement (mæglingsforslag) for...

18 March 2014

China: 50 percent of IBM Shenzhen workers leave the company rather than being transferred to Lenovo

More than half the workers decided to accept the American company’s offer to leave rather than going with Lenovo.

14 March 2014

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