Labour relations

As expected, at daybreak on Tuesday 30 March, and following months of tense negotiations that have been marked by several warning strikes, the social partners in the metallurgy industry concluded...

30 March 2021

United States: trade union activists at Amazon and Alphabet share their tips

Following the close on 29 March of a more than month-long unionization poll of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the vote counting process has commenced and the results are expected...

30 March 2021

Germany: steel industry workers obtain ‘Covid bonus’ and additional annual payments

On Saturday 27 March, social partners in the steel industry of norther Germany struck a new collective agreement for the 70,000 employees in the sector, in the Länder of North Rhine-Westphalia...

29 March 2021

United States: NLRB orders Elon Musk to delete a tweet threatening employees tempted by union representation

Could Twitter become a new terrain for industrial relations? That idea is perhaps not so appealing to the US National Labor Relations Board, which has ordered electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla...

29 March 2021

Spain: collective agreement for large retailers provisionally renewed, integrating law on remote work

On 24 March, the trade unions CCOO, Fagsa, Fetico and UGT penned an agreement with Anged, the association of large retailers in Spain, which partially renews the sector’s collective agreement...

26 March 2021

EU: ETUC seeks to help its members strategically reposition given the democratic and social challenges in the post-Covid-19 era

Based on the observation that the pandemic ‘removes all our certainties’ and necessarily leads us to reflect upon the world of tomorrow, the ETUC’s Rethinking project seeks to...

25 March 2021

Canada: government launches consultation on protections for ‘Gig Workers’ and on a ‘Right to Disconnect’ for federally regulated workers

Adapting labour rights to ensure that they are consistent with ‘the new realities of Canadian workers.’ Thus the government’s objective announced on 18 March with the launch of...

23 March 2021

Sodexo: declaration of intent signed with IUF to improve protection of staff, including when working at client sites

Sodexo, the French food services and facilities management company, and the IUF (International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’...

22 March 2021

Italy: banking sector social partners secure agreement on workplace vaccinations

Following the recent industrial sector agreement (c.f. article No.12411), Italy’s banking sector is also making itself available for an employee vaccination program. The agreement dated 17...

19 March 2021

EU: the UNI Europa Finance trade union federation and European insurance sector employers sign joint declaration on Responsible AI

On 16 March, UNI Europa Finance together with the European insurance sector employers – Insurance Europe, BIPAR and AMICE – signed a Joint Declaration on Artificial Intelligence ‘to encourage...

17 March 2021

Italy: new agreement at TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) to speed up early retirements and facilitate generational renewal

On 08 March the TIM telecommunications group together with the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl, Uilcom and UGL Telecomunicazioni unions signed an agreement providing for 1,300 voluntary early retirements by...

16 March 2021

Germany: Verdi and Talanx unveil pioneering agreement on an equity-based company pension model with no return guarantee

On Thursday 11 March, the trade union Verdi and insurance group Talanx presented a collective agreement to set up a company pension model based on social partnership. Three years after a law...

15 March 2021

Italy: Bayer trials flexible arrangements for working time and location

From 1 April until the end of the year, staff at Bayer’s Milan headquarters will experience a “new way of working”, of which the key feature will be the possibility of alternating between working...

15 March 2021

Italy: an agreement paves the way for vaccinations in Lombardy’s industrial workplaces

On 10 March Italy’s Lombardy region together with the regional branch of the Confindustria employers’ organization and the national association of occupational physicians presented a...

12 March 2021

Great Britain: national collective redundancies, even if decided locally, must be subject to European Works Council information and consultation when at least two countries are concerned (CAC)

On 05 March the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) * issued a decision that included conclusions pertaining to European Works Councils (EWCs) and information and consultation requirements. In its...

11 March 2021

Germany: PepsiCo Deutschland signs a ‘Mobile Working’ company agreement

On 04 February 2021, US food giant PepsiCo’s German subsidiary, PepsiCo Deutschland, announced it had signed a teleworking ‘Mobile Working Policy’ agreement with its Works Council. The agreement...

10 March 2021

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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...

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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...

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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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