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Following four years of work at the European level, and in the hopes of improving working conditions at Amazon, UNI Global Union has undertaken efforts in organizing workers around the world. In...

2 July 2018

In brief, Spanish employers in the logistics sector to call on government to force Amazon to adhere to employment and transport legislation

According to the Spanish employers’ organisation, UNO, the digital economy cannot rely on “the limiting of workers’ rights, through practices that all other companies could...

2 July 2018

India: technology sector hiring less manpower

Is India’s Tech miracle turning sour for the sector’s 3.9 million workers? For more than a year India’s media have been drawing attention to an increasing number of Tech sector redundancies. The...

28 June 2018

Japan: companies cosseting their new hires

Against a backdrop of increasing and broad-based manpower shortages, Japan’s employment landscape is undergoing profound change. With students now seeking better working conditions, Japanese...

28 June 2018

Germany: minimum wage set to rise in two stages, starting in January 2019

On 26 June, an independent commission, made up of employee and employer representatives, tasked with re-evaluating the legal minimum wage in Germany every two years, put forward its...

26 June 2018

Spain: unions and employers announce a pre-agreement clearing the way for salary changes after years of discord

Unions and employers announced that on 25 June they had agreed on the foundations for a framework agreement outlining guidelines for the collective negotiations that are set to take place over the...

26 June 2018

Spain: new collective agreement in chemicals industry agreed in principle

On 20 June, social partners in the sector agreed on an annual pay rise of 2.5% over three years as well as new measures as regards professional training and policies on gender equality.

22 June 2018

France: Saint-Gobain signs a group agreement on the quality of life at work by way of encouraging new forms of working based on trust and responsibility

On 17 May an agreement was signed by all the union organizations present in the two-century old construction group that accompanies the company’s development towards a work organization that is...

21 June 2018

Brexit: streamlined residency procedure for Europeans living in the UK unveiled

After Brexit, Europeans who have been in the United Kingdom for five years and who want to obtain settled status in the country, will have to prove just three things: their identity, that they are...

21 June 2018

Italy: Poste Italiane and the trade unions sign an employment agreement that intends for major staffing renewal

Poste Italiane, Italy’s largest postal provider in terms of employees (140,000) has signed a protocol agreement with the trade unions on active employment policies. The agreement intends for 6,000...

21 June 2018

Asahi Breweries Europe Group: agreement to establish an EWC

On 06 June and following months of negotiations involving support from the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT), Asahi Breweries Europe Group (ABEG)...

20 June 2018

India: economic growth with no new jobs?

‘Where are the jobs?’ The Narenda Modi government’s opposition has not stopped asking this question and the executive majority has not stopped trying to answer it. Jobs were one of the Narenda...

20 June 2018

Poland: significant pay rises in energy sector after wage negotiations

After several years of wage moderation, negotiations at companies from the energy sector – energy firm Tauron, fuel company PKN Orlen, coal-mining firms JSW and PGG, and copper and silver...

19 June 2018

Poland: discount retailer Biedronka attempts to entice older workers

In a bid to cope with a hiring crisis, discount supermarket chain Biedronka has announced it intends to hire more over-50s. To attract this cohort Biedronka is adapting its cashier positions to...

14 June 2018

Italy: agreement is struck between TIM (formerly Telecom Italia) and unions that avoids jobs losses

After a 6-month long dispute, Italy’s leading telecommunications group TIM has agreed to a proposal put forward by the SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl Uilcom-Uil, and Ugl Telecomunicazioni unions, so that...

13 June 2018

Austria: trade unions resume hostilities with the new government

On 08 June, the major trade union members of The Austrian Trade Union Federation (the ÖGB) announced they were in the process of informing their members of the right-wing coalition government’s...

12 June 2018

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