Labour relations

In May 2017 the Minister of Economic Affairs appointed a steering group to prepare Finland for reaching its goal of becoming a global leader in the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The group...

25 October 2018

Spain/an agreement to manage the end of the coal industry (in brief)

Planet Labor, 25 October 2018, nº10869 – www.planetlabor.com

25 October 2018

Argentina: a trade union for ‘gig economy’ workers

Argentina’s newly registered trade union: APP, the Association of Platform Personnel, is the first trade union in the Americas for workers in the ‘gig economy’. In the APP’s first press statement...

25 October 2018

Germany: Commerzbank also opts to do away with individual bonuses

Germany’s second largest bank, Commerzbank announced it was overhauling its bonus payment system, and the new one will come into effect on 01 January 2019. The new system will apply to 18,000...

23 October 2018

Spain: new collective agreement sets a minimum annual salary of €14,000 by 2020 in the temporary employment agency sector

In line with recommendations from the agreement on employment and collective bargaining that was concluded with the social partners in June 2018, the temporary employment sector is the first to...

23 October 2018

Rheinmetall: renews its global framework agreement with IndustriALL Global

In a press statement published on 12 September, the international union federation announced it renewed a global framework agreement that was first signed back in 2003 with the German corporation...

18 October 2018

Germany: SAP announces a set of AI guiding principles and creates an AI ethics advisory panel

At the end of September, Germany’s leading global software engineering company SAP announced a set artificial intelligence (AI) guiding principles based on the dual principles of transparency and...

17 October 2018

Germany: 2019 collective bargaining schedule

As the 2018 collective bargaining season comes to a close, some negotiations are still ongoing, for instance the Deutsche Bahn AG rail workers. However, even an incomplete review of the first six...

15 October 2018

Germany: both the EVG union and Deutsche Bahn (DB) draw positive conclusions from the 2016 collective agreement that allows employees to choose between more money and more free time

Germany’s rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) caused a furore when it signed a collective agreement back in December 2016 with the major rail union the EVG that in a landmark move, offered 100,000...

10 October 2018

Brexit: UK services companies recruitment numbers at 25 year lows (in brief)

With less than six months to go before the UK leaves the EU, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has observed that job creation is at a standstill. In its third quarterly report published on 08...

10 October 2018

Italy: trade union prevalence even across social media networks

Social media network and especially Facebook, Twitter, and more recently Instagram are becoming staples on the communications menu of the trade union confederations (Cgil, Cisl, and Uil), their...

8 October 2018

Carrefour: global framework agreement renewed

On 03 October the French multinational retailer renewed its 2015 global framework agreement struck with Uni Global Union (see our article n°9283). In this agreement that both Carrefour CEO...

3 October 2018

United States: NAFTA 2.0 strengthening the US auto sector

With the sun setting on the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, the three NAFTA pillars, United States, Mexico, and Canada are waking up to the newly agreed USMCA deal. Agreement for this...

1 October 2018

Inditex: European works council set up

At the start of last week, the Inditex group, which owns clothing brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, penned an agreement regarding the creation of a European works council...

1 October 2018

Italy: pension reform and citizenship income included in 2019 budget

At the end of tense internal discussions, Giuseppe Conte’s government announced on the evening of 27 September that it had reached an agreement on the measures to be included in the 2019 budget...

1 October 2018

United Kingdom: working week of 120,000 Royal Mail workers reduced by one hour

From today, Monday 1 October, employees of the UK postal service are to see their weekly working hours cut from 39 to 38 hours. This unprecedented measure is part of the so-called Four Pillars of...

1 October 2018

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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...

2 December 2025

EU: social partners in telecoms sign joint statement on AI

On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...

18 December 2025

Inditex European works council mobilises on value sharing

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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