Labour relations

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

Ireland: joint labor committees – which negotiate sectoral agreements – are reestablished and redefined

Richard Burton, the Irish Minister for Enterprise and Jobs, has signed several orders on the subject of Joint Labor Committees. Two are abolished and the scope of the others (cleaning...

17 February 2014

United States: Volkswagen’s Tennessee workers reject UAW but plan to set up works council still on

It’s the end of the United Auto Workers’ big plans in Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, Tennessee. At the end of voting on Friday, the employees voted against joining the union in a vote of 712 to...

17 February 2014

United States: executive order encourages minimum wage rise

Alone, Barack Obama doesn’t have the power to decide an increase in federal minimum wage. But he just gave employers in all sectors and the Parliament a strong incentive to adopt measures in this...

14 February 2014

Italy: national employment support fund in the banking industry is ready

The national employment support fund in the credit industry, introduced with the last renewal of the national collective agreement, will start working this year. More than €87 million were...

13 February 2014

Norway: unions get in battle array for 2014 negotiations

Negotiations are going to resume and unions, before the February 18 meeting prepared by LO (Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions) are starting to communicate their most important claims. Key...

13 February 2014

Germany: social partners set up “Retail Trade Council” to face demographic ageing via collective agreements

On February 11, the retail trade employers’ organization (HDE) and the Verdi services union announced a new “Retail Trade Council.” It is in line with broader action launched in 2012 to prepare...

13 February 2014

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