Labour relations

On 05 April during the EWC annual meeting the milk products group signed with the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) a declaration on inclusion, diversity...

18 April 2018

Foodora: riders attend first European meeting in Vienna

Representatives of employees from six of the ten European Member State subsidiaries operating meal delivery services from Foodora met on 11 April in Vienna, and is the first European meeting of...

18 April 2018

Japan: springtime negotiations to remedy contracting salaries

Japan’s ‘Shunto’ (springtime social dialogue) is expected to deliver an overall rise in salary levels for 70% of large companies. Ever since 1952 unions launch the annual ‘Shunto’ between March...

18 April 2018

Germany: Schaeffler, its WC and IG Metall seeking together to meet the digital challenge

Formerly at ‘daggers drawn’, family run Schaeffler, its WC and the IG Metall union adopted on 16 April a ‘Pact for the future’, which IG Metall believes may become a model for the auto sector. In...

17 April 2018

Germany: ‘generous’ deal reached at Deutsche Telekom amid pressure of digitalisation

On 12 April, after a fourth meeting, negotiators from Deutsche Telekom and the services trade union Verdi announced that they had reached a compromise that is likely to please the 55,000 employees...

13 April 2018

Brazil: labour market begins to adjust to the ageing population by harnessing the human qualities of older workers

In 2017, a number of Brazilian companies launched their first-ever recruitment campaigns specifically targeting workers over the age of 50. Such individuals are experiencing heightened interest...

13 April 2018

Italy: rescue plan for the former Alcoa Sardinia steel facility sparks debate over worker participation in companies’ capital structures

To general surprise, on 09 April during a meeting on a rescue plan for the Alco Sardinia steel facility, Carlo Calenda, Italy’s Minister for Economic Development announced that the project...

12 April 2018

Brazil: as the government launches its agenda for ‘Industry 4.0’, unions are seeking consultation and dialogue on the future of jobs

In mid-March Brazil’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade put a series of measures forward that aim to stimulate ‘the industry of the future’. The metals union has harshly criticized the lack...

12 April 2018

Germany: a new collective agreement at Deutsche Post allows employees to choose between more money and more free time

In line with recent sector and company level negotiations that indicate how Germany’s workers are seeking ways to achieve a better work-life balance, Deutsche Post’s (DP) 130,000 employees, who...

11 April 2018

Great Britain: satisfied senior managers but with the low skilled stuck in their jobs, the CIPD provides its first overview of how good job quality is in the UK

On 11 April, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for HR and people development, published its first broad survey on the quality of jobs in the UK...

11 April 2018

Norway: agreement on salaries and pensions struck between the union confederations (LO and YS) and the employers’ body (NHO)

On 08 April 2018, 15 hours after the date that was set for strike action, agreement was eventually found between the employers’ NHO body, and the LO and YS union confederations. Extracting...

9 April 2018

United Kingdom: a breakdown of gender pay gap figures

More than 10,000 UK companies with 250 employees or more published their gender pay gap in time for the April 4 deadline set by the country’s government, as part of a new law adopted in 2017 (see...

9 April 2018

Spain: talks between unions and employers over collective bargaining and employment framework agreement at a standstill

Will trade unions and employers in Spain manage to seal a framework agreement on collective bargaining and employment this year? That is the question on people’s lips as talks remain at a...

9 April 2018

United States: trade unions raise concerns over draft labour law reforms in Mexico, which could undermine the objectives of the NAFTA renegociation

With negotiations over a new free trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico (NAFTA), which had long been viewed as dead in the water, recently resuming, aided perhaps by the...

9 April 2018

Italy: oil and gas company ENI augments ‘smart working’

In light of the success of its pilot phase that was launched in February 2017 and which only concerned parents with young children, on 23 March 2018, ENI, together with the Filctem-Cgil...

4 April 2018

Germany: unprecedented agreement on occupational health management reached by Primark and Verdi

The services industry trade union Verdi and the Irish clothing retailer Primark have reached an agreement to provide training for management staff on workplace health. The agreement, which is one...

30 March 2018

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