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28 July 2017

Spain: nationwide salary negotiations break down

Following more than eight months of talks, social partners appear to have thrown in the towel. Unless there is a late twist, there will be no framework agreement on wages to guide collective...

28 July 2017

In brief, Rio Tinto commits to changing its attitude towards trade unions

The campaign led by IndustriALL Global Union that has targeted Rio Tinto, the Australian-British metals and mining corporation, is most probably one of the most tenacious pursued by an...

28 July 2017

News update as of July 26, 2017

Last minute : today the UK government has said it will abolish the charging of employment tribunal fees and reimburse those that have paid them. The decision follows a ruling from the country's...

25 July 2017

Philippines: the methods of the biggest temporary work agency in the world

In a long-standing trend that dates back to the oil crisis of the 1970s, the Philippines’ government not only encourages the export of labor, but institutionalized it so that today, through a...

25 July 2017

Spain: Axa Seguros becomes first company to recognise ‘right to disconnect’

The insurance firm's new collective agreement recognises employees' right to turn off their mobile phones outside of working hours. The agreement also looks to help workers achieve a work-life...

24 July 2017

France: ordinance published on non-financial CSR reporting

The ordinance which modifies non-financial reporting provisions in order to come in line with Directive 2013/34 on CSR non-financial reporting for large companies and other businesses as well as...

21 July 2017

Italy: the Uil central union launches a database of company and regional agreements

On 11 July the Uil presented project DIGIT@UIL, which is a database of some seven hundred second level agreements (local and company). The software, which will be open to the public in September...

19 July 2017

Axa: EWC’s role in the group’s digital transformation process (interviews)

Axa Group’s European Works Council (EWC) has some twenty years of experience with social dialogue under its belt not least concerning the agreement regulating its own operations but also the...

19 July 2017

Spain: unions hoist the standard of Catalan independence

Trade unions have taken up their positions vis-à-vis Catalan independence. The large central unions, the UGT and the CCOO, which at national level back a federal and pluralist Spain, have signaled...

18 July 2017

Briefly: workers at the Nissan Canton (Mississippi) site will vote on 3 and 4 August on a UAW presence

On 17 July the US auto union announced it had secured an agreement with the Nissan site management to organize a two-day NLRB supervised vote that would allow the blue-collar workers to vote in...

18 July 2017

United Kingdom: government has published its Brexit related European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Last Thursday, July 13th, the UK government published the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017. What this Act will do, if enacted, is to incorporate into UK law as domestic law all...

17 July 2017

Netherlands : new collective labour agreement (CAO) for metal and electrical engineering industry

On the 21st of April, employers and trade unions have reached an agreement on the new Collective labour agreement (CAO) for Metal and electrical engineering industry. In the beginning of June, the...

17 July 2017

In brief, United Automobile Workers, the American trade union for workers in the automobile industry, tables a request for a vote on trade union presence at the Nissan factory in Canton, Mississippi

On 11 July, the UAW announced that it had presented to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) a petition signed by 30 per cent of blue-collar workers at the Nissan factory in Canton...

17 July 2017

Argentina: metals and oil sectors conclude wage agreements

Two key industrial sectors concluded their annual wage agreements (Paritaria) in June. The oil and metals sectors signed separate specific agreements after hard fought compromises were wrung from...

13 July 2017

Great Britain: Taylor report advocates clarifying a status for gig workers

On 11 July the much-awaited Matthew Taylor review on the world of work commissioned by PM Theresa May at the end of 2016 was presented. In it the former advisor to former Labour PM Tony Blair...

12 July 2017

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