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The growth plan for the food industry, presented by the government on December 16, includes an experimental model allowing employees to invest part of their remuneration into the company to...

18 December 2013

France: transfer of skills at the center of the ‘generation contract’ agreements negotiated at company levels

A campaign promise of candidate Hollande, the “generation contract” enforced by the national cross-industry agreement of October 19, 2012, has 3 objectives: permanent recruitment for young people;...

18 December 2013

Germany: negotiations for the introduction of minimum wage in the meat industry have failed

Even though their positions were closer, the food and catering union (NGG) and the food employers’ organization (VDEW) failed, on Tuesday, December 17, to adopt a collective agreement introducing...

18 December 2013

Spain: CCOO tightens union structure and announces merger between several federations

CCOO is reducing its structure, centralizing services and preparing to merge certain federations to become more effective and flexible to facilitate union work in businesses. The construction and...

18 December 2013

Solvay: Global Corporate Social Responsibility Agreement signed with IndustriALL Global Union

The merger between Solvay and Rhodia is a successful example of integration in terms of social dialogue culture. The global CSR agreement signed yesterday, December 17, by Jean-Pierre Clamadieu...

17 December 2013

Austria: key social points of the new government’s program

The new Austrian government that came out of the election of September 29 has been in force since Monday, December 16. The previous Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, M. Rudolf...

17 December 2013

Spain: union and employers’ organizations subject to new transparency regulations

The transparency act, which determines the conditions to access information about the management and usage of public money came into force on December 10. It contains the obligation for union and...

17 December 2013

Great Britain: BMW and Unite sign agreement on the permanent recruitment of 1,000 agency workers

Following a deal struck between the Unite union and BMW, 1,000 agency workers will be given permanent contracts with guaranteed job security beyond 2020. Seven hundred are to be made permanent...

16 December 2013

Germany: Andrea Nahles, 43, SPD general secretary, becomes the new Minister for Employment and Social Affairs

After the members of the social-democratic party, SPD, agreed, on December 14, to the coalition contract negotiated since the end of September by the Christian Unions (CDU/CSU) and the SPD, Angela...

16 December 2013

Italy: Alenia Aermacchi strikes deal with unions on new hours system in aviation industry

On November 14, Alenia Aermacchi signed, with the Fim, Fiom and Uilm unions and the employee representatives of its Grottaglie undertaking (Taranto), an agreement on the organization of labor that...

13 December 2013

Denmark: the company that manages construction for the new Copenhagen subway and social partners sign agreement preventing social dumping

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

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