Labour relations

Gary Jones, president of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, has found himself in the firing line of federal legal authorities investigating potential corruption, following recent...

4 November 2019

Italy : Milanese social partners join forces to foster greater worker participation in company decision-making

Assolombarda, the Milanese branch of the employers’ body Confindustria, together with the local sections of the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil unions have signed a territorial agreement that seeks to foster...

30 October 2019

Germany : Trumpf launches a training project where digital ‘multipliers’ support SMEs to meet the challenges of digital transformation

With funding from the Baden-Wurtemberg Economic Ministry, and created by German company Trumpf, one of the global leaders in industrial laser manufacturing, F4DIA (Fit for digitized world of work)...

24 October 2019

Bolloré Group: agreement signed defining arrangements for workers representative involvement after the group changes to Societas Europaea status

In May 2019, Bolloré, a French transportation, communications and logistics conglomerate announced its intention to shift its headquarters and transform its status to a Societas Europaea (SE), a...

23 October 2019

Germany: chemical sector jobs impacted by transformation in the auto industry

A study published on 16 October, and jointly carried out by the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Science Research and the IG BCE chemicals and energy trade union friendly Work and Environment...

22 October 2019

Belgium: talent mobility initiative launched in finance sector

On 30 September, financial sector employer federation Febelfin and trade unions ACV Puls, GNC-CNE, BBTK/SETCa and ACLVB/CGSLB signed a new protocol on ‘talent mobility’, as a follow-on from the...

21 October 2019

Germany: agreement in the industrial cleaning sector

On 18 October, social partners in Germany’s industrial cleaning sector announced that they had reached an agreement to renew the framework collective agreement which regulates, among other...

21 October 2019

United States: agreement struck with GM for large pay rises but three sites are still set to close

Officials at the United Automobile Workers, the American trade union, have finally reached an agreement with the leadership of General Motors. However the 200 union leaders who met on Thursday 17...

18 October 2019

Finland: SAK, the country’s main union confederation, puts forward proposals addressing technological developments

In spring 2019, Finland’s government announced as part of its program that it would be changing labor legislation in order to better protect workers. Legislative drafts are formulated within...

18 October 2019

UNI Global Union launches a global campaign for the right to disconnect from work

The right to disconnect is the “new fight for the eight-hour workday,” declared Christy Hoffman General Secretary of the international union federation, UNI Global Union, during the launch of a...

17 October 2019

Umicore: global framework agreement renewed on sustainable development

On 17 October the Belgian multinational materials technology and recycling group renewed, for the third time, its global framework agreement on sustainable development that it signed with the...

17 October 2019

ARLA Foods: global framework agreement signed with the IUF combatting sexual harassment at work

On 07 October, the International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations (IUF) together with the Scandinavian multinational cooperative...

15 October 2019

Portugal : soon to be approved UGT affiliated bank & insurance sector union seeks to also advocate for workers in third party service provision

The SBSI union (Banking trade union for the south and the islands) has established a new trade union body by way of merging UGT affiliated bodies representing Banks in the Center of the country...

15 October 2019

Ireland : Financial Services Union calls for legislation on the right to disconnect

The Financial Services Union called on 10 October – on World Mental Health Day – for a law that would grant workers the right to disconnect. The union for workers in the financial...

14 October 2019

Italy : collective agreement in power sector renewed with several innovations

Social partners in Italy’s electric power sector signed a draft deal to renew their collective agreement on 9 October. The agreement applies to some 50,000 workers, including employees of Enel...

11 October 2019

Germany : agreement at Postbank allows workers to choose between more free time and more money

The trade union Verdi and the negotiators for German retail bank Postbank announced, on the morning of Thursday 10 October, that they have reached a compromise on the renewal of the company...

11 October 2019

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On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...

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In a joint statement, 10 trade unions comprising the European works council of the Inditex clothing group are calling for rallies in Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany...

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