Labour relations

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

Great Britain: businesses with employee ownership will have their stock index

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

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