Labour relations

On 19 September an agreement was signed by the Confindustria employers’ body along with the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil central trade unions, the INPS (National Social Welfare Institute), as well as the...

23 September 2019

Italy : energy and oil sector collective agreement renewed

On 19 September, social partners from the energy and oil sector penned a draft deal to renew their collective agreement, which expired at the end of 2018 and applies to some 35,000 workers...

20 September 2019

Great Britain : employment tribunal asks CJEU for clarification on the status of ‘worker’ in the context of the gig economy

Does the fact an individual has the right to hire a replacement, to do part or all of their work, mean they cannot be considered a ‘worker’? This is a question that has recently been referred by...

20 September 2019

Germany: difficult start to collective bargaining in insurance sector

On Thursday 19 September, a first meeting was held between social partners in Germany’s insurance sector: the trade union Verdi on one side and the employers’ association of insurance...

20 September 2019

Germany: collective negotiations in the interim employment sector at a time of a faltering economy and manpower shortages

On 17 September social partners in the interim employment sector commenced negotiations to renew collective agreements that are set to expire on 31 December 2019. Mandated by its members, the DGB...

19 September 2019

AccorInvest signs a global agreement with the IUF on fighting sexual harassment

On 17 September, the international trade union federation, the IUF, along with French hotels group AccorInvest announced their signing of a global agreement fighting sexual harassment at work. The...

18 September 2019

Germany: metallurgy employers in the northern region set up their own employment website

With Germany facing a shortage of skilled manpower, metallurgy and electro-technical employers in the north of the country have decided to take the situation into their own hands and have set up...

18 September 2019

Unilever Italy: unions sign “Industry 4.0” agreement promoting workers’ life-long learning so as to safeguard employability in light of ongoing technological transformation processes.

On Friday 13 September, an agreement on Industry 4.0 was signed between the Italian branch of the multinational group Unilever and the three sectoral unions FLAI-CGIL, FAI-CISL and UILA-UIL. The...

17 September 2019

Suez: European agreement on professional equality renewed

Today, on 16 September, Bertrand Camus, chief executive of French utility group Suez, the group’s European trade unions, and the European Union Federations have signed an agreement to reinforce...

16 September 2019

Sweden: employers seek confederation-level agreement to frame upcoming sector-level negotiations

The majority of collective agreements covering the Swedish economy are set to expire by the end of the first quarter of 2020. Consequently, negotiations to renew some 500 collective agreements...

16 September 2019

Spain: purchasing power guarantee clauses making a return to collective agreements

After years of salary restraint, Spain’s trade unions are starting to win their first salary related battles. Employees are effectively starting to win back some of the purchasing power they...

12 September 2019

EU : European Trade Union Confederation calls on national trade unions to demonstrate for climate action

In a statement published on 5 September, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) called on its 90 affiliated national trade union organisations to commit to achieving a “just...

12 September 2019

Generali: management and the European Works Council sign a joint declaration that commits to diversity and inclusion in the Group

Promoting diversity and work-life balance and including workers with disabilities are just some of Italian insurance company Generali’s commitments that have been further bolstered by the joint...

11 September 2019

Netherlands: collective agreement reached in metal and engineering industry (Metaal en techniek)

Trade union groups and employer organisations from the five metal and engineering sectors in the Netherlands (310,000 workers from 27,500 companies from the so-called ‘light’ metal-working...

6 September 2019

Italy: mechanical engineering and metalworking unions put forward common platform of demands ahead of the renewal of the national collective agreement

It is the first time in twelve years that the FIOM-Cgil, FIM-Cisl and UILM unions have proposed a common platform, after the great divide between the union centrals, over the reform of the...

6 September 2019

Germany: in a bid to boost its employer brand Deutsche Post reintegrates staff at its DHL low-cost packages delivery subsidiary into its ‘house agreements’

In March 2019 Deutsche Post announced a turnaround in its 2015 strategy of setting up subsidiaries that led to separate working conditions for Deutsche Post (DP) employees and those working for...

4 September 2019

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