Labour relations

The management told the employee representatives it was withdrawing the program after a central works council meeting which lasted just a few minutes, because they refused the draft agreement...

28 September 2012

Germany: BMW signs company agreement to recruit 3,000 agency workers in return for flexible working time

3,000 hires and no more than 8 percent temporary workers. The IG-Metall clearly sees the agreement signed on Wednesday in Munich between BMW and its central WC as a victory. Even though the...

27 September 2012

Germany: new head of metal employers’ organization wants to commit to an even more flexible labor market

September 14 was the transfer of power between the former and the new President of the German association of metal industries. “He knows the metal and electrical engineering industry, he knows...

27 September 2012

OHL: Spanish construction firm signs international framework agreement on workers’ rights and union freedoms

An agreement negotiated by the Fecoma-CCOO and MCA-UGT unions. The agreement was negotiated and signed at the request of the Fecoma-CCOO and MCA-UGT Spanish unions representing the BWI in Spain. ...

26 September 2012

Portugal: mobilization drives government to give up amending social contributions but taxes will rise

Single social tax. The Single Social Tax (TSU) on workers’ income should have increased by 7 percentage points, from 11 up to 18 percent, on January 1, 2013. At the same time, employers’ TSU...

25 September 2012

Italy: chemical/pharmaceutical social partners renew national collective agreement

All the organizations said they were satisfied with the agreement renewing the collective agreement in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry, signed in Rome on September 22, after only 5 days of...

24 September 2012

Spain: beyond statutory requirements, businesses take innovative equal opportunity measures

Reminder. Spain adopted this law (see our dispatch No. 070315) drawing upon two European directives (2002/173 and 2004/113) on equal opportunities. As a general rule, large companies (250...

24 September 2012

Norway: new agreement removes the threat of third strike in oil drilling

Hard to reach an agreement. “We’re happy we’ve reached an agreement, which is a positive foundation for future collaboration” declared Håvard Hauan, OLF’s attorney. The negotiations were tough...

24 September 2012

Italy: unitary agreement at Golden Lady delays the application of the labor market reform provision imposing the transformation of atypical contracts into permanent ones

Reasons and consequences. “We wanted to give our support to a well-ordered recruitment system with subservient contracts. Indeed, transforming these contracts at once was not possible from an...

20 September 2012

Siemens: after Siemens US violated the international CSR agreement in North East, Maryland, the social partners involved are talking about the new path to take

Breach of the CSR IFA. How can you launch a campaign against the creation of an employee representation structure in a plant in August and sign a global framework agreement on corporate social...

20 September 2012

Denmark: the union war at the Vejle restaurant, the symbol of the rivalry between traditional and ‘yellow’ unions

Until November 2011, the Vejlegården restaurant in the city of Vejle applied the national collective agreement 3F signed with the Horesta employers’ organization. However, the new owner, Amin...

19 September 2012

Germany: 2013-14 collective bargaining schedule

Wages increased less than anticipated in 2012. The report on 2012 collective bargaining, which will end this fall with a series of collective negotiations (agriculture, textile or transportation)...

19 September 2012

Great Britain: the Unite union assesses 50p community membership to rebuild its collective campaigning ability

In return for a host of benefits, Unite will train and develop these community members as community activists (see our dispatch No. 110772). They will then be put to use in bringing together...

19 September 2012

Morocco: government tries new social dialogue method

In the past few days, Abdelilah Benkirane, head of the Moroccan government, met with each union federation separately. The aim of this method is to give each union the time to give its views on...

19 September 2012

Canada: new wage agreement between Ford and auto unions

Next weekend, ford’s 4,500 staff in Canada still have to ratify the agreements. After three weeks of talks with Ford management, CAW President Ken Lewenza said it's a good deal in today's...

19 September 2012

Italy: Unicredit and unions sign agreement on industrial program and bonus

The signing unions (Dircredito, Fabi, Fiba-Cisl, Fisac-CGIL, Sinfub, Ugl-Credito and Uilca) said that the agreement signed with Unicredit on September 15, after four days and one night’s “tight...

18 September 2012

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