Labour relations

The framework agreement on 2017 wage recommendations is within reach. At least this is what Juan Rosell, president of the employers CEOE confederation, has been repeating over recent weeks. Unions...

11 July 2017

Brazil: number of workers aged 50-65+ up 30% over 5 years

The number of people in Brazil aged between 50 and 64 that are in work has increased by 30% over the period between 2010 and 2015. Meanwhile the number of workers aged 65 and over has also...

10 July 2017

Great Britain: Deliveroo seeks to establish ‘gig worker’ status

With the much awaited independent report on work commissioned by Theresa May’s government and led by Matthew Taylor expected on Tuesday 11 July (c.f. article No. 9950), food delivery firm...

10 July 2017

Great Britain: London launches its Good Work Standard

On 04 July, London Mayor Sadiq Khan officially presented his Good Work Standard project to which companies will soon be able to voluntarily adhere. Its stated goal is to tackle low pay and...

7 July 2017

News update as of 06 July

In its final pre-summer plenary session, the European Parliament gave its backing for public corporate tax disclosure and the need to tackle growing precarious employment.

4 July 2017

Austria: agreement found over the minimum wage but not on working time

Austria’s social partners only managed to secure one of two of the government’s goals set in January 2017. On 30 June representatives from the employers and trade unions presented their agreement...

4 July 2017

Deutsche Bahn: rail company looks to modernize the co-determination rules as part of its digital transformation

Deutsche Bahn (DB) one of West Germany’s major employers with more than 195,000 working in Germany is one of the first companies to contribute its own ‘Co-determination PLUS’ experimental forum to...

4 July 2017

Spain: Basque trade unionist Unai Sordo takes the helm at the CCOO

The Spanish Workers' Commissions (CCOO) recently held their ninth union congress, which took place from 29 June to 1 July, and it saw the election of the union’s general secretary. Unai Sordo, the...

3 July 2017

Brazil: another day of national protest over labour reform

On Friday 30 June, the main central trade union groups and social organisations in Brazil organised protests in the country’s biggest cities. The movement, which was initially supposed to be a...

3 July 2017

Bangladesh: over twenty leading fashion brands signed a new safety agreement with garment factories

On 29 June twenty-three leading ready-to-wear fashion brands together with the IndustriALL and Uni Global Union organizations signed a new safety agreement covering Bangladeshi garment factories.

29 June 2017

United States: the NLRB comes under Republican influence

President Donald Trump has just nominated two representatives to the board as counterweights to the pro-union decisions of its current makeup.

29 June 2017

Great Britain: special status to only be offered to EU citizens with a minimum of five years residency

On 26 June, UK PM Theresa May confirmed that following Brexit, EU citizens will have had to have been resident in the UK for at least five years in order to avail of the ‘settled status’, which...

26 June 2017

India: tech employees mobilise to create sector’s first trade union

The Forum for IT Employees (FITE) is preparing to file an application to the government of Tamil Nadu state in India and become the first trade union for tech workers in the country. The news...

26 June 2017

Digitalization: Danish, Swedish, and German social partners compared

A study by Anna Ilsøe, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, focuses on work related digitalization, something that has intensified over recent years via...

26 June 2017

Sodexo: signs a global agreement with the IUF over preventing sexual harassment at work

In line with the direction set in the international framework agreement signed by both Sodexo and the IUF in December 2011 on commitments to respect fundamental rights at work, namely freedom of...

22 June 2017

Austria: the Foodora platform sets up its first works council

In Europe’s large towns and cities, food delivery services operating via smartphone apps, and for the most part employing freelance workers are in full swing. Similar to the UBER platform based...

22 June 2017

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