Labour relations

On December 10, Metroselskabet signed a partnership agreement with union and employers’ organizations to improve joint actions against social dumping, to that the sites comply with the country’s...

12 December 2013

Germany: the number of apprenticeship contracts reaches another record level in the chemical industry

On December 11, the IG BCE union and the sector’s employers’ organization, BAVC, gave a unanimously positive report of their collective agreement on apprenticeship, signed in 2003 and renewed...

12 December 2013

Great Britain: businesses fined €6.5 million for failing to comply with safety rules

Since last year, businesses that fail to comply with safety rules have to pay the Health and Safety Executive’s inspection fees. The first bill is quite long and proves that employees don’t work...

12 December 2013

Italy: flexibility is the key theme of the textile industry’s renewed national collective agreement

After “long and difficult negotiations” that lasted more than 8 months, Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil for unions and SMI (Sistema Moda Italia) for employers reached, on December 5, an...

11 December 2013

Brazil: union front validates 7.5 percent wage increase in the chemical industry

On Thursday, the CUT and Força syndical unions both approved the renewal of the 2013/14 collective labor agreement for the chemical sector in São Paulo State, covering nearly 280,000 workers. ...

11 December 2013

Great Britain: groundbreaking deal in working conditions and job security at the now privatised postal operator, Royal Mail

The now privatised Royal Mail has agreed in principle a ground-breaking new agreement on terms and conditions of employment with the Communication Workers Union (CWU) for the company’s 139,000...

10 December 2013

Belgium: draft social agreement on the restructuring of ArcelorMittal’s Liege sites

After one week of bitter debates, the management of ArcelorMittal and workers’ representatives, assisted by the Region of Wallonia, reached a “draft social agreement in principle” that maintains...

10 December 2013

United States: the debate over the minimum wage increase is open again

It wasn’t the workers’ mobilizations at Walmart or fast-food chains, supported by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), that brought the debate over the minimum wage increase back to...

9 December 2013

Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway terminates contract with Portuguese subcontractor because of wage dumping

Following an investigation by the 3F union journal gathering material about the violation of Danish collective agreements by Cinterex, the Portuguese company, a major subcontractor in the...

9 December 2013

Great Britain: unions win several battles to organize cleaning workers in London

Two unions are involved: the largest public sector union (and the second biggest overall union), Unison, and the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB). They don’t have the same methods but...

9 December 2013

Germany: Sitech Sitztechnik, the car part manufacturing and a Volkswagen branch, signs agreement on temporary work in line with the parent company’s temporary charter

On December 6, the IG-Metall union announced that it had reached, after “difficult and lengthy negotiations.” A collective agreement on appeal to temporary work with Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, a...

6 December 2013

India: only 34 percent of young graduates are work-ready

According to the “India Skill Report 2014,” a wide survey on youth employability carried out among 100,000 students and 100 employers published last week, two thirds of young Indian graduates...

6 December 2013

Germany: pilot regional agreement with a 5.1 percent increase for 200,000 commerce employees

After 8 months of rotating strikes, 7 fruitless meetings and 1 bargaining night, the social partners in retail trade in Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart) reached an agreement on Thursday, December 5...

5 December 2013

Italy: the fire at the ‘lager-factory’ in Prato reveals the working conditions of Chinese immigrants in the country

Yesterday, the three Confederal unions of Tuscany did a symbolic walkout to commemorate the 7 Chinese workers who burned on December 1 in the warehouse where they worked and lived in Prato, the...

5 December 2013

Spain: Leroy Merlin in Madrid signs agreement on more work on Sunday

On November 28, the management signed, with the Fetico majority union and UGT and USO unions, an agreement extending the opening of stores until 10 pm instead of 3 pm in the Madrid area for 3...

5 December 2013

BASF inaugurates the largest work-life balance center in Germany, a sign that German firms are taking to this theme

In early November, BASF, a pioneer company in the field of work-life balance, inaugurated “LuMit,” which is the biggest work-life balance management center in the country. This achievement, which...

5 December 2013

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3 December 2025

Germany: crisis-hit industries cast shadow over 2026 bargaining cycle

In 2026, collective wage agreements for nearly 10 million employees in Germany are set to expire. With upcoming negotiations in crisis-hit 'pilot' sectors such as chemicals and metalworking, the...

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Bulgaria: government approves bill to encourage sector-level collective bargaining

On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...

2 December 2025

EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI

On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...

18 December 2025

Germany: Erwin Hymer Group’s innovative and award-winning AI agreement

Fed up with negotiating separate agreements for each new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, the social partners at Erwin Hymer Group (8,900 employees) have instead secured a broad, overarching...

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Italy: telecommunications sector introduces new measures to navigate major transformation

The agreement reached between Asstel, the employers’ association for Italy’s telecommunications sector, and the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom unions centres on strengthening labour relations to...

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