Labour relations

Throughout 2013, UNI Europa, the European trade union federation, carried out a project on EWCs in several sectors – finance, trade, cleaning services and graphics. There were two objectives...

13 March 2014

United States: President Obama wants to extend overtime pay beneficiaries

Barack Obama is going to ask the Department of Labor to review overtime pay in order to get more employees covered. To that end, he wants to update the Labor Standards Act, which provides that...

13 March 2014

Germany: employers worried about the impact retirement at 63 could have on the shortage of skilled workers

Several big employers’ organizations in Germany sounded the alarm: the government’s pension reform bill, which introduces retirement at 63 for people who paid contributions for 45 years, could...

12 March 2014

Romania: social aspects of the new government’s program

After a cabinet reshuffle in the beginning of this month, the center-left Prime Minister lowered several social objectives to which he had committed when he took office in 2012, notably the...

11 March 2014

China: official unions support strike at Pepsi

A national strike has been paralyzing several Pepsi factories in China, protesting against layoff and pay cuts. Besides, and this is extremely rare in the People’s Republic, unions back the...

10 March 2014

Great Britain: revised figures on the reality of zero hour contracts make political waves

The government has revealed that the incidence of the use of zero hour contracts is more than double its previous pronouncement. After a campaign of political pressure by political parties, unions...

10 March 2014

Great Britain: Unite union to pay £1.5m per year less to Labour

Unite, the largest union and the largest union affiliate to Labour, has announced that it will reduce the number of members it affiliates to the Labour Party from 1,000,000 to 500,000, thus...

7 March 2014

China: IBM workers strike over transfer to Lenovo

Over 1,000 workers from an IBM factory in Shenzhen, China, have been on strike for 4 days to protest against the conditions of their transfer to Chinese PC maker Lenovo.

7 March 2014

Italy: temporary work social partners sign permanent text of deal renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

On February 27, the NIdiL CGIL, Felsa CISL and UIL Tem.p@ unions and the Assolavoro employers’ organization signed the final text of the temporary work industry’s national collective labor...

6 March 2014

Brazil: metalworkers at Volkswagen site approve short-time working for 300 workers

A majority of the 3,400 workers at Volkswagen’s São José dos Pinhais plant (Paraná, south-east of Brazil) approved, on February, an agreement with the German carmaker that suspends, for 3 months...

6 March 2014

France: social partners strike deal on employment compensation in return for the lower social contributions planned by the government

Yesterday, March 5, the social partners reached a compromise on the terms of the quid pro quo President Hollande requested in return for lower social contributions. The “summary of conclusions...

6 March 2014

Italy: CGIL’s metal federation, Fiom, to organize its own consultation of metalworkers on the agreement reforming union representation and collective bargaining

The modalities for consulting workers about the single text on employee representation – signed by the 3 union confederations and Confindustria and Conservizi for employers, which reforms...

5 March 2014

Germany: metal social partners evaluate the 10 years following the ‘landmark’ Pforzheim agreement that led to the competitiveness agreements

Former quarrels forgotten: for the 10th anniversary of the famous “Pforzheim agreement,” the metal employers’ organization, Gesamtmetall, and the IG-Metall union unanimously gave a positive...

5 March 2014

When HR learns from hackathon

Challenging its employees to solve a problem in 48 hours: that’s the hackathon, a marathon that used to be reserved for workers in computing firms. More and more managers from all industries are...

5 March 2014

Great Britain: Cameron confirms minimum wage increase

The British Prime Minister already announced that he intended to follow the Low Pay Commission’s recommendation, increase minimum wage by 3 percent as early as October. The government is hoping...

4 March 2014

United States: former French workers at Samsonite’s Henin Beaumont plant to refile case against Bain Capital investment fund

On March 5, the regional court of appeal (First Circuit) will hear the lawyers of former workers at Samsonite’s Henin Beaumont plant (north of France) about the admissibility of their action...

4 March 2014

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