Labour relations

After the meeting at the Ministry of Labor failed on November 28, local public transport (LPT) unions confirmed the national 4-hour strike of December 16 to support the renewal of the national...

3 December 2013

Portugal: difficult social dialogue over the extension of pension contributions

The social partners started discussing retirement with unions in total rejection. The CGTP and UGT refuse the draft bill planning to increase retirement age to 66 in 2014. The government intends...

3 December 2013

Germany: Verdi services union signs collective agreement with two Deutsche Post subsidiaries

After a major conflict punctuated by several days of warning strikes at national level, the Verdi services union announced, on December 2, that it had signed a collective agreement with two...

3 December 2013

Spain: new professional categories in the hotel industry make functional mobility easier

On November 26, union and employers’ organizations in the hotel industry signed the new chapter of the national sectoral agreement that supervises the working conditions of 1 million employees in...

2 December 2013

Germany: temporary recruitments are Daimler’s answer to regulatory pressure on service provision contracts

The “Grand Coalition” made up of conservatives and social-democrats isn’t in power yet but is surely getting there. Its program, revealed on November 27, contains the introduction of statutory...

2 December 2013

Belgium: federal recovery program provides for contribution cuts of €1.3bn

On Friday, November 29, the federal agreement agreed on measures to support competitiveness and employment on financial (labor, energy or capital cost) and non-financial aspects (innovation...

2 December 2013

Great Britain: private sector wins employees’ trust

Private sector workers feel safer about their job than in the public sector, according to the latest Workplace employment relations study. In spite of the crisis, the private sector played its...

2 December 2013

Spain: Cemex workers agree to cut pay by 25 percent

Workers at Cemex’s Alicante plant have accepted the company’s offer to cut pay by 25 percent. The 5 other Spanish plants of the Mexican cement group already gave in to the management’s demands...

29 November 2013

Prosegur: Spanish private security giant accused of violating workers rights in 4 Latin American countries

UNI Global Union filed a complaint for violation of the OECD’s guidelines with the Spanish national contact point, as this is where Prosegur’s headquarters are located. The private security...

29 November 2013

Great Britain: parental leave and working mothers at the center of the political debate

British employers are carefully watching the papers to know what the government is going to decide in terms of parental leave. Indeed, this issue has become the bone of contention within the...

28 November 2013

Spain: court cancels part of the supermarkets’ collective agreement

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

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