Labour relations

The National Court canceled some of the provisions of the collective retailing agreement signed by the Fetico and Fasga unions against the CCOO and UGT’s sectoral union federations. The provision...

28 November 2013

Brazil: series of pay deals struck in the metal industry

Several sectoral agreements leader to a global 8 percent wage increase were signed in the metal industry in the State of São Paulo. Some were signed by Força sindical, some were signed by the CUT...

28 November 2013

International: shipbuilding and shipbreaking unions make it their priority to organize precarious workers

During IndustriALL Global Union’s Shipbuilding-Shipbreaking Action Group Meeting, which too place in Denmark on November 12-14, unions from the 18 countries represented decided to give priority to...

27 November 2013

Great Britain: sixth national survey of employment relations published

The full results of the sixth national survey of employment relations in Britain has now been published as Employment Relations: In the Shadow of Recession. It examines the state of employment...

27 November 2013

Germany: key points of the “Grand Coalition” program

The “grand commission” shared by the conservative parties (CDU and CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) finished working on Tuesday, November 27, around 5:30 am after one of the longest...

27 November 2013

United States: Walmart found guilty of unfair social practices

No, Walmart didn’t have the right to lay off and sanction employees who went on strikes and demonstrations, ruled the National Labor Relations Board after investigating for nearly a year into the...

26 November 2013

Great Britain: British workers’ training blamed once again

Young graduates accepting unskilled jobs, businesses forced to recruit abroad to find employees with the appropriate skills, everything shows that training in the UK isn’t adapted to the labor...

26 November 2013

Portugal: Parliament adopts 2014 austerity budget in difficult social atmosphere

Today, November 26, the National Assembly of Portugal is going to adopt the 2014 austerity budget, the third since the right-wing government came to power in 2011. The Finance Act plans to save...

26 November 2013

Great Britain: 60 percent of workers on the controversial ‘zero-hours’ contracts are allegedly (report by the CIPD HR organization)

Have the highly controversial ‘zero-hours’ contracts been “unfairly demonized”? The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) believes so, and claims that this form of contracts –...

26 November 2013

Germany: IG-Metall elects new management and gets Merkel to make promises

Gathered at their annual conventional on November 24-25 in Frankfurt, the 458 IG-Metall delegates elected, as expected, Detlef Wetzel, former number 2, as the leader of the organization. He is...

25 November 2013

Sweden: If Metall and Teknikarbetsgivare sign new deal on working time cut in case of a crisis in addition to the future short-time working system

Inspired from the ‘crisis agreements’ signed in 2009, a bill on the “kortidsaerbete med statligt stöd” (working time cut with State support) is going to be debated in Parliament soon. However...

25 November 2013

Great Britain: new pay deal in the construction industry

The three main construction unions, the GMB, UCATT and Unite, are to recommend to their members covered by under the Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) agreement acceptance of a new offer...

25 November 2013

Switzerland: initiative to limit employers’ pay failed but left a mark

On Sunday, November 24, the Swiss people clearly rejected the 1:12 initiative, which requested that the ratio between the highest and lowest salary paid in a company didn’t exceed 1 to 12. 65.3...

25 November 2013

France: funding is the bone of contention of the reform of vocational training and apprenticeship

Presented as a priority for François Hollande’s 5-year term, the reform of vocational training should be complete by the end of this year, at the same time as an apprenticeship reform. While the...

25 November 2013

Finance sector workers throughout the world have suffered a lot in recent years, according to a report by UNI Finance Global

Nearly 200,000 jobs lost in the financial sector throughout the world these past two years. 80 percent of the sector’s unions in Europe reporting health issues for their members. These are two...

22 November 2013

Germany: Angela Merkel confirms statutory minimum wage

Yesterday, November 21, the Chancellor confirmed, more clearly than ever, that Germany was going to adopt statutory minimum wage. This concession, obtained following friction with the...

21 November 2013

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