Labour relations

In the past few days, several collective agreements were signed, notably in construction industrial cleaning and graphics. This boost comes from the fact that most existing collective agreements...

4 March 2014

Two new articles on industrial relations foreign systems added to our Resource center

In addition to the interview of Avital Shapira-Shabirow, Director of the International Department of the Israeli trade union Histadrut, presenting the industrial relations system in her country...

3 March 2014

Israel: introduction to industrial relations

Avital Shapira-Shabirow, Director of the International Department of the Israeli trade union Histadrut, answers the questions of Planet Labour about the employee involvement system and the place...

3 March 2014

Schneider Electric: talks to become European Company (SE) launched

Last December, the management of the electric components manufacturing announced that it wanted to become a European company (SE) by May. The special negotiating committee set up to negotiate the...

28 February 2014

Great Britain: conservatives want to limit the right to strike

As the legislative election is coming near, the Conservatives announced that they were working on reforming the right to strike, which they are hoping to limit in order to avoid social movements...

28 February 2014

Denmark: agreement renews transport framework collective agreement

Dansk Industri (DI) and 3F’s Transportgruppe signed, on February 26, an agreement renewing the joint collective agreement (fællesoverenskomsten) for storekeepers, drivers and dockworkers. ...

28 February 2014

Switzerland: social partners at La Poste Suisse SA maintain single framework agreement on working and pay conditions for all group undertakings

For statutory reasons, because Poste Suisse became a corporation of public law in July 2013, the social partners had to renegotiate the collective labor agreement (CCT) that supervises working...

27 February 2014

Great Britain: in spite of the crisis, Low Pay Commission recommends moderate minimum wage increase

The Low Pay Commission has just suggested that the government increase minimum wage by 3 percent, the highest rate since the crisis. Some unions view it as an insult but employers are reassured –...

27 February 2014

Canada: wage increases averaged 1.4 percent in 2013 (2.2 percent in the private sector)

The Canadian Ministry of Labor reported the major collective agreements in Canada for 2013 which produced an average wage increase of 1.4 percent, compared to the 1.7 percent increase in 2012 and...

26 February 2014

Italy: Matteo Renzi’s government to do labor market reform at once

The youngest President of the Council in the history of Italy, Matteo Renzi, 39, won the vote of confidence from the Chamber of Deputies (378 in favor to 220 against) after winning the Senate over...

26 February 2014

Finland: first ruling recognizes the validity of a collective agreement negotiated by a yellow union

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

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