Labour relations

Improving employee ownership is one of the leitmotivs of the Cameron team, which recently announced the creation of a tailor-made stock index to identify businesses where at least 3 percent of...

21 November 2013

Brazil: OAS construction group to pay a BRL 15 million fine for slavery

OAS, the public construction company, one of the biggest in the country, is going to pay a fine amounting to BRL 15 million (€5 million) for “maintaining 150 workers in a situation nearing...

20 November 2013

Australia: government wants to set up independent monitoring organization for unions and employers’ organizations

Following the latest scandals of financial embezzlement in some organizations, the Australian government wants to plan ahead. It wants to set up an independent committee in charge of monitoring...

20 November 2013

Luxembourg: first results of the social election

On November 13, employees elected their representatives to the Chamber of Employees (CSL) and employee representation structures at company level. The first report shows that the union landscape...

19 November 2013

Germany: one in three workers in the auto, machine-tool and metal industry is allegedly agency workers or has a service provision contract, according to the IG-Metall

According to the IG-Metall, approximately 1 million of the 3.6 million working in the metal, auto, electronics and machine-tool industry are either agency workers or employed with a service...

19 November 2013

Italy: Eni and Ilva sign operational protocol on security at work in Tarente industrial area

The operational protocol signed on November 11 by Ilva, Eni, the Apulia region, the National Institute for Insurance against Industrial Accidents (Inail), the Ministry of Employment, the Ministry...

18 November 2013

Great Britain: government inquires into unions’ behavior within the framework of collective disputes

The Coalition government has established a formal inquiry into the tactics of unions in industrial disputes in the wake of the bitter Ineos-Unite battle at Grangemouth. The prime minister’s office...

18 November 2013

Spain: agreement in the dispute of cleaning and gardening services in Madrid

The agreement reached yesterday, November 17, puts an end to 13 days of strike in cleaning and gardening services in Madrid. It is considered as a victory by the trade unions, UGT (majority union...

18 November 2013

Germany: conservatives and social-democrats announce agreement on the introduction of a mandatory quota of women on boards

The Family Commission, one of the 16 commissions created by Angela Merkel’s conservative union (CDU/CSU) and the social-democratic party (SPD) within the framework of the negotiations for the...

18 November 2013

Denmark: “chain responsibility” in public sites at the center of the campaign for the municipal elections

The issue of social dumping could be decisive in the outcome of the municipal election of November 19. LO signed agreements with left-wing parties in several towns, who commit themselves, in...

18 November 2013

Spain: latest government statistics on collective bargaining show that the agreements negotiated confirm pay freeze or cut

The Ministry of Labor released statistics about the collective agreements signed after the 2012 labor market reform. They point out that lower labor costs have been achieved as one third of...

18 November 2013

Austria: trade social partners sign first collective agreement over 2 years

The social partners in the Austrian trade industry, the DPA-djp union and the Trade Department of the Austrian Economic Chambers (WKÖ), presented, for the first time in the sector’s history, a...

15 November 2013

Canada: H&M strikes first unionization agreement in Quebec

On November 2, the UFCW union announced that workers at H&M in Joliette, Québec had signed their first collective agreement, which expires in 2016 and improves pay conditions and personal...

15 November 2013

United States: IAM rejects Boeing’s new collective contract

The International Union of Machinists (IAM) at Bowing rejected the 8-year contract guaranteeing employment in exchange for major concessions in terms of retirement and health Boeing offered to...

15 November 2013

Germany: Verdi unions agrees to the 2.3 percent wage increase negotiated at the end of October at IBM Deutschland

On Monday, November 11, Verdi’s Federal Committee on information technologies and data processing accepted the collective agreement negotiated by the company social partners at the end of October...

14 November 2013

Great Britain: Unite launches credit union network to save its members from contracting payday loans

The Unite union has launched a new credit union service, in a bid it says ‘to take on payday lenders, encourage saving and offer members finance without fear’. The service has been expressly...

14 November 2013

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