Labour relations

The EWC had already cuts its teeth when several entities closed that used to belong to CACIB, Credit Agricole’s investment bank. In this context, the group’s management committed to respecting...

31 July 2013

Italy: Expo 2015 signs agreement on flexible recruitment modalities

On July 23, Expo 2015 Spa, the company in charge of organizing the 2015 Universal Exposition, which will take place in Milan, signed an “important agreement” with the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions in...

25 July 2013

Sweden: agreement in the mechanical industry improving the possibility of part-time retirement

On April 19, Svemek (mechanical employers’ organization) signed a new deal with IF Metall (metalworkers’ union), and with Unionen (private sector), Sveriges Ingenjörer (Swedish engineers) and...

25 July 2013

Great Britain: setback for the campaign against blacklisting organized by union members in the construction industry

Leading anti-blacklisting campaigners have expressed dismay at the response of Business Secretary, Vince Cable, to the call from the Scottish Affairs Select Committee in Parliament to investigate...

25 July 2013

Italy: Eni signs unitary agreement with unions to revive its Gela refinery in Sicily

On July 19, Eni signed, with the RSUs and the local structures of the Filctem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uiltec-Uil unions, an agreement for the restructuring of its Gela refinery, imposed by the...

24 July 2013

Novartis: commentary of the new EWC (Euroforum) agreement

Since February 1, Novartis’ European Works Council, called Euroforum, has been ruled by a new agreement that adds to the structures’ operating rules the key novelties of the 2009/38 recast...

23 July 2013

Italy: State and businesses mobilized to find solutions to the esodati crisis brought about by the Monti administration’s pension reform

Side effect to the 2011 pension reform, “esodati” are workers reaching the end of their carrier who have signed voluntary leave agreements during a restructuring or reorganization in their company...

23 July 2013

Spain: recent trends in corporate volunteering

Corporate volunteering is not new. Traditionally, it has been conceived as a Corporate Social Responsibility practice. However, businesses are progressively integrating employee community...

22 July 2013

United States: second time National Labor Relations Board is saved in a year and a half

After the NLRB’s appointments were cancelled since the American Senate didn’t expressly give its consent and with the Republican Representatives constantly blocking the issue, the Federal agency...

22 July 2013

Great Britain: government outlines plan on the transparency of lobbies, which should also shed light on Labour funding by unions

The Coalition government has outlined its plans for a statutory register of lobbyists, saying it would boost public confidence about outside influence on the process of political decision-making...

19 July 2013

Belgium: Belgian ‘wage disability’ still causes divisions

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

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