Labour relations

Online food delivery group Deliveroo and the British trade union GMB have announced the signing of a "Voluntary Partnership Agreement". The agreement signed on 12 May will, for the first time...

13 May 2022

Portugal: social partners come together to conclude decent work agenda

Ana Mendes, Portugal’s Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, met with representatives of the employers’ and trade union confederations on 11 May, at the Standing...

13 May 2022

Austria: high wage increases in the chemical and electrical engineering sectors

The social partners in the chemical (47,000 employees) and electrical engineering (67,000 employees) sectors have negotiated average wage increases of 4.75% and 5%, respectively, over one year...

11 May 2022

France: platform workers called upon for the first time to choose their representatives

Between 09 and 16 May, and under the aegis of the new Agency for Social Relations of Employment Platforms (ARPE), 120,000 digital platform workers are being invited to elect their own...

10 May 2022

Orpea: CGT and CFDT unions demand cancellation of global agreement on ethical employment and union rights

The CGT and CFDT, respectively the second and third largest representative unions at Orpea in France, are asking UNI global union to reverse the global agreement signed in April with the nursing...

9 May 2022

Germany: Yasmin Fahimi becomes first woman to lead German Trade Union Confederation

On Monday morning, Yasmin Fahimi was elected president of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB – Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund), after receiving 93.23% of votes at the annual congress of...

9 May 2022

France: Legrand adds LGBT+ inclusion and fight against gender violence to its workplace equality policy

Legrand, the French electrical products and systems specialist, signed a new agreement on workplace equality on 22 February. The agreement, signed by all trade unions at the group (CFDT, CFE-CGC...

6 May 2022

U.S.: unionization at Amazon warehouses stalled

On 02 May, the newly formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU) failed in its campaign to unionise the e-commerce giant's LDJ5 warehouse on Staten Island, New York. With a 61% turnout, 62% of the voters...

4 May 2022

France: Sanofi signs an agreement to promote retraining for those currently working in ‘sensitive’ ill-fated jobs

On 28 February 2022, the French pharmaceutical group together with three trade unions, namely the CFDT, CFE-CGC and CFTC (excluding the CGT) signed an employment and careers management agreement...

2 May 2022

Germany: on course for higher salaries

Several signs suggest that Germany could be starting on a course for rising salary levels. With domestic inflation now at the high end of the Eurozone average, (7.4% April, 7.3% March) wage...

2 May 2022

France: trade unions preparing a humanitarian convoy to Ukraine

The humanitarian convoy may arrive by mid or late May, “at best”. Thus announced eight French trade union bodies (CFDT, CGE-CGC, CFTC, CGT, FO, FSU, Sud-Solidaires, and UNSA) during a...

20 April 2022

France: court fines Deliveroo for undocumented ‘concealed’ employment

On 19 April the Tribunal judiciaire de Paris found meal delivery company Deliveroo guilty of ‘concealed’, unreported employment. In accordance with the prosecution’s request, the...

19 April 2022

Orpea: global agreement on “ethical employment and trade union rights” is ill received

French nursing home group Orpea has penned a three-year global framework agreement with UNI Global Union, for a partnership covering ethical employment, social dialogue, collective bargaining and...

15 April 2022

Italy: Enel innovating labour relations by way of its ‘Status of the Person’

In paying attention to the profound transformations linked in particular to energy transition and digitalization, and in a bid to enhance the value of the individual in the workplace...

14 April 2022

BNP Paribas signs its European charter on telework

On 06 April, the French banking group, together with the UNI Europa Finance trade union federation, the European Federation of Credit Institution Executives (FEDEC), and the bank’s European Works...

13 April 2022

Germany: IG Metall is now the leading representative union on SAP’s Works Council

According to initial results released on 06 April, the IG Metall metalworking union’s electoral list for representation on German IT leader, SAP’s (German IT leader with 22,000...

8 April 2022

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25 September 2026

Germany: Volkswagen cancels almost all collective bargaining agreements signed with IG Metall

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1 October 2026

France: final document on the work of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference

After six months of discussions between French social partners, the guarantors of the Labour, Employment and Pensions Conference submitted the conclusions of the discussions to the Prime Minister...

17 September 2026

Germany: working time dispute between Mercedes and the IG Metall Union

The news. At the beginning of September, Mercedes-Benz asked employee representatives and the IG Metall union to agree to an increase in the weekly working time from 35 to 40 hours, without any...

16 September 2026

Germany: major day of union action in the automotive industry ahead of collective bargaining

A few weeks before the start of collective bargaining in the German metalworking sector, the IG Metall trade union mobilised nearly 175,000 workers across more than 200 industrial sites on 21...

22 September 2026

UK: duty for employers to inform workers of their right to join a trade union postponed to 1 January 2027

The news. On 25 September, the British government published its response to a consultation launched on 23 October on the duty to inform workers of their right to join a trade union. The...

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