Labour relations

Not only are Finland’s trade unions unhappy with the National Conciliator, Vuokko Piekkala, they are also critical of the conciliation system that has had much to deal with in terms of a...

28 January 2020

Germany: IG Metall changes negotiation strategy to better address structural challenges faced by manufacturing sector

With structural upheaval already underway, particularly in the automotive industry, the German metals sector union IG Metall said on 24 January that it is prepared not to set any numerical salary...

27 January 2020

Spain: collective agreement signed at Endesa after intervention of arbitrator on preferential energy rates for former employees, but union discord persists

On 23 January the management at Spanish utility company Endesa and the UGT, the majority union at the company, signed the company’s new collective agreement. The agreement, which should in...

27 January 2020

Spain: government and social partners secure agreement on a 5.5% increase in the minimum salary

On 22 January the government, employers, and trade unions secured an agreement that will raise the monthly minimum inter-professional salary (SMI). The monthly salary floor will rise from €900 to...

23 January 2020

Italy : salaries and bonuses are the main theme in company agreements

The second report (here) on second level collective negotiations undertaken by the Cgil trade union together with the Fondazione Di Vittorio, which studied 1,887 agreements signed between 2017 and...

23 January 2020

Spain: CCOO trade union critical of gender pay gap in fisheries canning sector

‘Pescar derechos’ (fishing for rights) is the slogan the CCOO trade union has adopted to launch a campaign calling for gender pay equality in the fishing-related canning industry...

21 January 2020

Italy: fashion and textile sector trade unions present platform of demands for collective agreement renewal

A 115-euro wage increase, efforts to combat dumping – a practice that remains commonplace at subcontracting companies, the development of second-level collective bargaining, and the...

20 January 2020

Germany: ‘Auto Summit’ to prepare support and tools aimed at training and maintaining employment

On 15 January the Federal Chancellery hosted a summit meeting that focused on safeguarding employment in Germany’s auto industry. All the relevant actors in the sector attended the meeting and...

16 January 2020

Germany: IG Metall to prioritise job security in upcoming collective negotiations in metals sector

Roman Zitzelsberger, IG Metall’s chief in Baden-Württemberg, has earmarked job security as one of the trade union’s priorities ahead of collective negotiations set to kick off by 17 March in the...

13 January 2020

Business practices: how high-tech firm Thales is upping the pace of educational innovation and the ‘marketing’ of solutions that better meet the needs of professions and employees

More than 18 months ago Jean-Roch Houllier, director of educational innovation at the Thales Learning Hub, established a structure geared towards helping his company’s training system meet new...

13 January 2020

United States: telecoms union CWA targets tech and video game industries with its CODE (Campaign to Organize Digital Employees) campaign

The leadership of the Communications Workers of America, a large trade union that has a strong presence in the telecommunications industry, has decided to expand into the sectors of tech and video...

13 January 2020

Works council expertise ‘à la française’ looking to extend across Europe

For several years works council specialist consultants have been active in both European Commission funded sector-level social dialogue, as well as in French EWCs. More recently however, these...

8 January 2020

Germany: Zonar, the performance evaluation software at Zalando that has sparked a data protection probe

A study conducted by a German university claims that e-commerce platform Zalando has been placing its workers under pressure and/or surveillance using the performance management tool Zonar, a...

7 January 2020

Italy: banking sector collective agreement renewed

On 19 December, after a year of negotiations, social partners in Italy’s banking sector agreed a provisional deal to renew the national collective agreement (CCN), which applies to more than...

20 December 2019

European social partners in the tourism and hospitality sectors call for better regulation of the platform economy

On 29 November, the EFAT (European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions) and HOTREC (Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe) federations signed a joint declaration calling...

20 December 2019

Spain: banking sector agreement on the right to disconnect and the implementation of daily working time records

Spain’s banking sector trade unions and employers’ bodies have concluded an agreement on employees’ right to disconnect (log out) during rest periods. The agreement is part of the negotiation over...

19 December 2019

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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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