Labour relations

On 21 November, Belgium’s Women in Finance association announced it had already achieved its goal of a charter promoting equal treatment between males and females that covers more than 90% of...

3 December 2019

United States: big cities and states take steps to regulate the gig economy

Several US states and large cities in the country are taking action in a bid to regulate the legal Wild West that is the so-called gig economy. California, Seattle and New York City are on the...

2 December 2019

Germany: BMW reaches agreement with works council to cut costs without resorting to staff reductions

The fast-paced shift towards electricity-powered vehicles and the digitalisation of production is piling pressure on the German automobile industry, a central pillar of the country’s economy. Like...

29 November 2019

Finland: agreements reached in the postal and mail sectors

The negotiation of new collective agreements in Finland appears set to be fraught with difficulty, as demonstrated by recent strikes that have impacted the post office, mail services and...

29 November 2019

ENGIE: joint declaration signed with its European Works Council on digital technology issues for the Group

On 28 November, Robert Textoris, ENGIE’s European Works Council (EWC) secretary, together with ENGIE's CEO Isabelle Kocher, signed a joint declaration that sets out a ‘frame of reference common to...

28 November 2019

Siemens Gamesa: renewal of the Global Framework Agreement on Social Responsibility with IndustriALL Global

On 25 November the former Spanish-based wind turbine manufacturer and wind services provider that merged with Siemens in 2017 signed a Global Framework Agreement (GFA) with the IndustriALL Global...

27 November 2019

Germany: social partners in chemicals sector introduce first supplementary dependency insurance scheme as well as an ‘account for the future’

On Friday 22 November, the German trade union for mining, chemicals and energy – IG Bergbau, Chemie, Energie – and the country’s federation of chemicals sector employers – BAVC – signed a branch...

25 November 2019

EU: union organisation UNI Europa Finance sets out roadmap for 2019-2023

At the UNI Europa Finance Conference, held on 22 October in Torremolinos, Spain, finance sector union leaders adopted a resolution on the organisation’s strategic planning framework for up to the...

25 November 2019

United States: several union leaders at United Automobile Workers accused of corruption

Two big bombshells in Detroit. Gary Jones, president of the United Automobile Workers union, has resigned from his role, while automobile manufacturing group General Motors has filed a lawsuit...

22 November 2019

Germany : Verdi service union critical of Zalando employee monitoring and digital ranking system

A new dispute has erupted between the services union, Verdi, and Europe’s largest online retailer, Zalando. A study published on 20 November and commissioned by the union-friendly Hans-Böckler...

21 November 2019

EU: 5th EFFAT Congress held in Croatian capital Zagreb on 06 /07 November under the banner: ‘Organise, Fight and Win: A recipe for a stronger EFFAT’

‘EFFAT is standing at a crossroads.’ This opening statement from the EFFAT ( European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism) Action Plan that was adopted in Congress preceded a list of...

20 November 2019

South Korea: trade unions make inroads into Samsung Electronics

For the first time in fifty years a labor union affiliated with the South Korean umbrella union group, the Federation of Korean Trade Unions (FKTU), has established a presence at the Samsung...

19 November 2019

Germany: Verdi and ING-DiBa strike deal on ‘agreement for the future’, which introduces an individual training allowance

German labour union Verdi and the management of German bank ING-DiBa struck an agreement at the start of November to renew their collective agreement ‘for the future’ (Zukunftsvertrag), which is...

18 November 2019

France: how Coca-Cola European Partners France relaunched and rebuilt social dialogue to support its new business plan

With production volumes on the decline, a transformation of the French market, three redundancy plans in five years, CCEP France – which produces, bottles and markets Coca-Cola in France – has...

18 November 2019

Italy: Milanese retail sector social partners agree on more flexible rules for recourse to temporary employment contracts

On 06 November, the territorial agreement called ‘Milan a tourist city’ (Milano città turistica) was signed. It allows more workers to be hired on temporary employment contracts during certain...

15 November 2019

Inditex: renews its global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global on respect for working conditions throughout the whole production chain

On 13 November, at the ILO's head offices in Geneva, Inditex Executive Chairman, Pablo Isla, and the general secretary of IndustriALL Global Union, Valter Sanches, signed the agreement extending...

14 November 2019

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