Labour relations

Conducting collective negotiations in Norway’s financial sector has been a difficult process not least because of a power struggle between the LO Finans union (the post and telecommunications...

12 June 2018

Italy: delivery riders making big waves on the political agenda

The issue of workers’ rights as relates to digital platforms and in particular meal delivery riders has just exploded onto Giuseppe Conte’s new government’s political agenda. Upon taking office...

7 June 2018

Germany: towards further flexibility over working time

The metals industry, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Bahn: an increasing number of sectors and companies are arming themselves with flexible working time models that enable employees to...

6 June 2018

Yves Rocher: IndustriALL global launches an international campaign against the French cosmetics company

The situation here could well have panned out along the lines of typical Turkish industrial relations comprising an official union authorization combined with a legal appeal by company management...

6 June 2018

Italy: PM Giuseppe Conte’s inaugural speech to parliament is light on detail

With little need to delve into great detail on schedules, quantitative commitments and concrete measures, newly installed Italian PM Giuseppe Conte’s made his inaugural speech before parliament...

5 June 2018

United States: machinist union gains a foothold in Boeing’s southern State facility

Boeing technicians at the Charleston South Carolina plant have succeeded in rallying the IAM (International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers) to their cause with the establishment...

5 June 2018

Germany: Opel workers guaranteed jobs until 2023 in return for wage concessions

The Sword of Damocles hanging over the 19,000 Opel workers’ jobs in Germany has been lifted. In the evening of 29 May, and following long and tough negotiations between management at the automaker...

30 May 2018

India: job offers are biased in favor of males

According to a recent World Bank survey, job offers in India are most often explicitly biased towards males together with on average better pay for men. A World Bank analysis examined 800,000 job...

30 May 2018

EDF: signs a new global CSR agreement

Thirteen years after its first global agreement (the first being signed in 2005 and subsequently renewed in 2009), France’s energy giant has re-engaged with the global union federations...

29 May 2018

Germany: almost a million employees have already taken advantage of early retirement at age 63

Revealed by the Blidzeitung publication and later confirmed by the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, latest data over take-up of retirement at age 63 has relaunched the fierce debate of...

28 May 2018

In brief, Amazon signs its first collective agreement in Italy

In a press statement on 23 May 2018 (here) the international services union federation Uni Global announced that the first ever company agreement was signed with online retail giant Amazon. The...

24 May 2018

In brief, Uber is to propose social benefits cover for its independent workers across Europe

In a 23 May press statement platform-based taxi firm Uber announced it is to offer free insurance cover for its drivers including sickness, injury and maternity and paternity payments. It will...

24 May 2018

Italy: inside the ‘government of change’ contract that has been agreed between the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League

Although the make-up of Italy’s new coalition government (between two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the League) still needs ironing out, the two parties have ratified the...

22 May 2018

Brazil: sharp dip in the number of collective agreements reached during first quarter of 2018

In the first quarter of 2018 in Brazil, the number of collective agreements that were approved was down 48% compared to the same period in 2017. The first quarter also saw a 29% dip in new...

22 May 2018

Germany: re-elected to the helm of the DGB, Reiner Hoffmann wants to “humanise” digital capitalism

At the national congress of the DGB, Germany's Trade Union Confederation, which took place from 13 to 17 May in Berlin, 400 delegates from the body’s eight member-unions spent time debating how...

17 May 2018

United Kingdom: sizeable pay rise for Rolls Royce employees, as it looks to reduce pension spending

After five months of intense negotiations, engineering company Rolls Royce has reached an agreement with trade unions that will see its 22,000 UK employees get a pay rise of between 7% and 11.7%...

17 May 2018

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