Labour relations

The second year of obligatory gender pay gap reporting, applicable to companies with at least 250 employees, has illustrated a worrying lack of movement by companies. Despite the introduction of...

8 April 2019

Spain: hospitality sector collective convention creates a specific professional category for home meal delivery workers

Spain’s hospitality sector employers’ bodies and trade unions have agreed upon a new professional category that will include online platform delivery workers. Trade unions are hoping that this...

2 April 2019

Sweden: new government’s plans on employment and social protection

Stefan Löfven retained the position of prime minister of Sweden in January this year, after a four-month parliamentary impasse following the 2018 general election. He currently leads a minority...

1 April 2019

Spain: plan launched to bring back those who emigrated during the crisis

On 22 March, the Spanish government presented an array of 50 measures to simplify the process of returning to the country, for those who have emigrated abroad. The measures seek, amongst other...

25 March 2019

Mexico: State of Coahuila signs ‘Pact for social dialogue and decent work’ with social partners

On 6 March, an agreement on social dialogue was reached by the governor of the Mexican state of Coahuila, the mayors of the 36 largest cities in the state, heads of companies and trade union...

25 March 2019

Bosch continues to deploy its ‘Learning Company’ concept

In line with the rest of the industrial world, Germany’s largest auto-parts manufacturer, Bosch (400,000 employees), is having to deal with enormous challenges that must be met, or else risk the...

21 March 2019

Solvay: agreement to maintain the UK within the scope of group’s EWC

The management at the Belgian chemicals group and members of its European Works Council have decided that “considering the importance of social dialogue in the company, the continuity should...

19 March 2019

Germany: 3.7% pay rise and ‘options model’ for a wage supplement in the steel sector

Social partners in Germany’s steel industry announced a new collective agreement for the 72,000 workers in the areas of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen, where the majority of the...

18 March 2019

Germany: “Today we need the best level of protection possible, a little less in terms of overall rules, and agreements that provide employees with more autonomy over decision making,” Jörg Hofmann, President of IG Metall

In an interview with Planet Labor, Jörg Hofmann, President of IG Metall (and of the international federation, IndustriALL Global Union) explained how the union is addressing employment problems...

14 March 2019

Unilever: agreement signed with EWC on the ‘Future of Work’ to support retraining of workers and the development of employment models that are more compatible with their expectations

On Wednesday 5 March, the management at consumer goods group Unilever signed an agreement on the ‘future of work’ with its European Works Council. The deal sets out jointly-devised measures, to be...

12 March 2019

Siemens: an intelligent learning experience platform that helps employees acquire the competences they will need for tomorrow

What is the impact of digitalization on training and lifelong learning within businesses? How can we identify essential competences several years ahead? How can we learn to learn in the digital...

12 March 2019

Germany: according to the WSI, flexible working modes are tending to cement traditional gender roles

A study by the Hans-Böckler WSI institute, published on 05 March, has shown that the uptake of flexible working modes (teleworking, trust based working, mobile hours /Gleitzeit) is gender...

6 March 2019

Argentina: annual salary negotiations more fraught than ever

The backdrop for negotiations in Argentina this year consists of a recession, the pressure of inflation as well as uncertainty ahead of presidential elections in October 2019. While trade unions...

4 March 2019

Argentina: number of occupational illness and workplace accident disputes plummets

In Q3 2018, occupational illness and workplace accident disputes in Argentina plunged 42% compared with the same period in 2017 representing a record according to the study carried out by ART...

28 February 2019

Germany: Siemens launches its ‘Future fund’ with which employees can choose their own training

Europe’s largest industrial and electro-technical manufacturing company is also facing the changes being brought about by digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and energy transition. In...

27 February 2019

Italy: an agreement to cover call centers

On 21 February, Italy’s employers’ body Asstel (Confindustria’s Telecom branch), together with the trade unions SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom, signed a significant framework agreement that sets...

27 February 2019

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The Employers' Federation of German Employers' Associations (Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände - BDA) published a report at the end of September in which it proposes a...

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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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