Labour relations

Caixabank unions and management have defined the modalities of the social plans providing for 2,600 leaves - all voluntary. All the representatives unions (CCOO, SECPB, UGT, SIB and CIC-FEC)...

27 March 2013

Corporate practices: BSH Spain commits to pushing local young talent into the international arena

The Spanish subsidiary of the Bosch and Siemens Home Appliances Group (BSH) is determined to identify promising recent graduates at the local level and to expand their skills and competencies for...

27 March 2013

Germany: 6% increase over 2 years for train drivers

Four meetings and several warning strikes took place before the social partners in the rail industry reached an agreement, on Monday, March 25, for a 6% wage increase over two years. The agreement...

26 March 2013

Italy: cement employers and unions reach unitary agreement renewing the sector’s national collective agreement

The unitary agreement signed between the social partners in the cement, plaster, mortar and other construction materials industry renewing the sector's national collective agreement provides...

26 March 2013

Italy: success for the first cross-regional strike organized by independent logistics unions

The first cross-regional strike (mostly Lombardy, Venetia and Emilia-Romania) in the logistics industry, called by the general meeting of logistics workers and the independent trade unions for 24...

25 March 2013

Fiat/Chrysler and CNH: international union network agrees to organize mobilization week for employment and working conditions

After a meeting in Turin on March 19-21, the Fiat/Chrysler and Case New Holland (CNH) union network, supervised by IndustriAll Global Union, agreed to a mobilization week on April 8-12 for the...

25 March 2013

United-States: could there be a works council at Volkswagen Chattanooga soon?

When it comes to building union membership at the plant of German or Japanese carmakers, it seems that the United Auto Workers would be more successful through a German-style works council at...

22 March 2013

Italy: results of the first HRD survey on the impact of the labor market reform (Gi Group)

On March 18, the permanent observatory on the labor market reform, a private initiative by Gi Group, the temporary work and recruitment agency, released the results of its first survey on the...

20 March 2013

United States: pay deal for Boeing technical engineers

After professional engineers and tougher negotiations, Boeing technical engineers ratified a four-year labor deal. New hires will not be entitled to the company's existing pension scheme. (Ref...

20 March 2013

Belgium: Ford Genk’s social plan gives subcontracting staff the same working conditions as direct employees

The management of the Genk plant was satisfied after 71.7% of the workers approved, on Friday night, the social plans signed by the trade unions last week. In the carmaker's subcontracting firms...

18 March 2013

Italy: Electrolux and unions sign agreement on strategy out of the crisis

On March 9, the social partners at Electrolux signed a unitary agreement suspending the staff cutting program the group had announced for 2013-2015 via solidarity contracts (working time cuts) and...

18 March 2013

Germany: businesses reduce apprenticeship places in spite of the growing shortage in skilled workers

According to the first draft of the "2013 Apprenticeship Report," in 2012, German businesses cut the number of apprenticeship places they offered. Indeed, last year, only 21.7% of companies...

18 March 2013

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Mattel: China Labor Watch claims employees’ working conditions are getting worse at the toy manufacturer

“Investigators, who entered the factories as production workers or carried out interviews, revealed a long list of illegal and unfair labor treatment at (…)one directly-owned Mattel factory and...

5 December 2012

Indesit: EWC becomes global works council

Composition. This new international social dialogue structure will be made up of 21 employee representatives – 8 from Italy, 4 from the UK, 4 from Poland, 3 from Russia, 1 from Turkey and 1 from...

4 December 2012

Volkswagen: new “Temporary work Charter” will apply to all agency workers across the globe

which the IG-Metall said it was a milestone, Volkswagen, the German carmaker, is committing to reducing the level of temporary employment in the group and to gradually introducing equal pay...

4 December 2012

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