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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

Germany: company works councils focus increasingly on employee psychological welfare

Two years after the Hans-Böckler Foundation survey of company works councils’ major foci relating to negotiated company agreements (c.f. article No. 9681), the Foundation has repeated the project...

16 May 2018

Germany: Deustche Bahn’s ‘digital pact’ intends for employees to share in the digital transformation related productivity gains

At the end of March 2018 Deutsche Bahn’s social partners signed a framework agreement on digitalization for the German rail company and on the means for establishing a ‘sustainable transformation...

14 May 2018

Finland: agreement in the construction sector concludes cycle of decentralised negotiations

The agreement that has been struck in Finland’s construction sector marks the end of a period of negotiations, in progress since the summer of 2017, over the main collective agreements covering...

14 May 2018

In brief, agreement in principle reached in Luxembourg’s banking sector

On Friday 11 May, social partners in Luxembourg’s banking sector announced that they had reached an agreement in principle on a new collective agreement for banks, to run from 1 January 2018 to 31...

14 May 2018

Italy: mixed picture for employment data amid political tensions

Companies under pressure, the burgeoning gig economy, more and more unpaid internships and a rising number of temporary employment contracts: all these elements combining at a time when Italy is...

9 May 2018

Germany: Deutsche Bahn’s ITC subsidiary DB Systel is undergoing major digital change

Deutsche Bahn’s ITC specialist subsidiary DB Systel has launched a radical transformation in its work organization that will affect its 4,000 workers. Already underway, the process has impacted...

8 May 2018

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