Labour relations

On July 15, the select Ministerial Committee received a report on the pay gap written – following its own request – by a group of experts (national bank, planning office, central economic council...

19 July 2013

Sweden: social dumping with new operators at the heart of 2013 negotiations in transportation

Negotiations in the rail and bus transport industries were punctuated by social movements. Wage increases were defined at 6.8 percent over three years, in line with most other sectors, but the...

18 July 2013

Spain: flexibility enters collective agreements

Since 2010, when the first major labor market reform came into force, Spain has been implementing successive reforms aiming to make the labor market more flexible. Introducing internal...

17 July 2013

United States: 1.3 million food workers should join the AFL-CIO next month

With union membership globally down, the emblematic United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which organized the strikes that paralyzed food warehouses in California and the leader...

16 July 2013

Germany: Volkswagen’s central WC wants to negotiate with Tennessee’s Republican officials to set up a WC in Chattanooga

Bernd Osterloh, head of Volkswagen’s central WC, has revealed the strategy and schedule he wants to follow to secure the election of a works council in the American plant of Chattanooga...

16 July 2013

Italy: high turnout at the general strike against Indesit’s restructuring plan

A lot of workers joined the national 8-hour strike organized on July 12 in Fabriano (Marche), where Indesit Company has its headquarters, against the group’s restructuring plan, which provides for...

15 July 2013

Luxembourg: new memorandum of understanding in construction

The social partners in the Luxembourg construction industry are finally out of the deadlock their collective agreement was in. the approximately 14,000 construction workers didn’t have a...

15 July 2013

Mexico: from 2013 on, labor cost is cheaper than in China

Several recent studies show that Mexico is becoming more competitive than China as far as labor cost is concerned. Ten years ago, Mexican wages were still 3 times higher than in China in the...

15 July 2013

Italy: Menarini group adopts solidarity contracts for medical representatives

On July 9, after bargaining for more than a year, Menarini Group – the largest pharmaceutical group in Italy – signed an agreement with its RSUs and the Femca-Cisl, Filctem-CGIL and Uiltec-UIL...

15 July 2013

Great Britain: annual CAC report on statutory union recognition procedures

In the annual report of the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC), the body which administers the statutory union recognition procedure, applications for union recognition increased to 54 in...

12 July 2013

Renault: HR agencies for employee-customers

Renault made a small revolution at the end of 2011 in the HR organization of its engineering and service undertakings in the Paris area (16,900 employees). Employees and managers used to complain...

11 July 2013

Germany: doubts raised in 13 Lander as to the conformity of laws that condition the award of public contracts to compliance with minimum social and pay standards

The battle around minimum wage, one of the central themes in the election campaign, goes on at regional level. On August 1, the Land of Schleswig-Holstein will introduce the obligations to pay...

11 July 2013

Italy: social partners in local public transport sign agreement establishing joint solidarity fund

The social partners in local public transport signed an agreement establishing a joint solidarity fund designed to “accompany” restructuring/reorganizing procedures in public and private companies...

11 July 2013

Great Britain: Labour leader Ed Miliband wants to reduce union influence in his party

Following weeks of political turbulence for Labour as a result of the alleged actions of affiliate, the Unite union, to make sure that a large number of its members would be selected as Labour...

11 July 2013

Austria: trade sector negotiates work on Saturday in exchange for “super weekends”

The Commission set up earlier this year by the trade social partners to negotiate the issue of allowing work on Saturday presented, on Monday, July 8 in Vienna, a compromise which makes both...

10 July 2013

Brazil: general strike on July 11 to support popular demonstrations

Large unions announced the paralysis of the country this coming Thursday, July 11. In line with the citizen mobilizations organized in recent weeks, the workers’ confederations are calling for...

10 July 2013

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