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According to a report by the Families Ministry that the government adopted on 10 January 2018, the ‘parental plus salary’ provision (Elterngeld plus), which came into force on 01 July 2015, has...

11 January 2018

United States: New York association Fast Food Justice defending fast food sector employees

New York’s fast food workers have not managed to unionize. Introducing a trade union into a company is too long and complex a process. Until now, the sector’s major food chains including Mac...

11 January 2018

Switzerland: FAIRLOG, a new trade union platform in transport and logistics

During December 2017, the SEV, syndicom and Unia unions, all of which are wholly or partly involved with the transport and logistics sectors, established the FAIRLOG alliance as a way of better...

10 January 2018

ENGIE: signature of a new European agreement on professional equality between women and men

On 21 December 2017, ENGIE and the European Trade Union Federations IndustriAll Europe, EPSU and EFBWW signed a new European agreement extending that of June 2012 on professional equality between...

22 December 2017

Spain: Minimum wage to rise 4% on 01 January 2018

Spain’s government and social partners have agreed on a gradual rise in the inter-professional minimum monthly salary, which will rise from €707 over 14 months in 2017 to €736 over 14 months in...

21 December 2017

Sweden: an agreement to better integrate migrants into the labor market

Trade unions and employers’ bodies finally secured an agreement in principle that will enable both the significant numbers of new entrants into the country (In 2015 Sweden welcomed almost 500,000...

19 December 2017

Germany: Opel, the Works Council, and IG Metall have signed a cost cutting agreement that avoids layoffs

On 15 December there was a sigh of relief as management at Opel, PSA’s recent summer purchase, secured a social agreement with representatives from the central works council committee, the Bochum...

18 December 2017

Ryanair: Irish airline ready to recognise pilot unions, amid rising pressure

Announced on 15 December, Ryanair’s surprising decision to U-turn and offer recognition of pilot unions is a reaction to an unprecedented social front of pilots from across Europe, who threatened...

18 December 2017

Vinci: agreement signed over workers’ rights in Qatar

This agreement is the first of its kind On 21 November Vinci and the Qatari company Qatari Diar VINCI Construction (QDVC), signed an agreement with the global federation, the Building and Wood...

21 November 2017

Brazil: industry trade unions in São Paulo support inserting a ‘safeguard clause’ into agreements, so as to protect from the effects of labour reform

During an assembly organised by the CUT, Brazil’s Unified Workers’ Central, which brought together trade unions from various sectors, the principle and terms of a so-called ‘safeguard clause’ were...

2 November 2017

Finland: country set for a wave of collective agreements allowing greater flexibility via company-level deals

On 30 October, the Finnish Industrial Union (Teollisuusliitto), formerly the metalworkers’ union, announced that it has negotiated a new collective agreement with the sector’s employer...

2 November 2017

Germany: ‘culture clash’ between Tesla Grohmann automation and IG Metall concludes with compromise

For several months a tough struggle has been underway between the German trade union IG Metall and the US electric automaker Tesla, which in 2016, bought the small German company Grohmann...

24 October 2017

Germany: Voith reduces the number of works councils at its headquarters amid digitalisation

Voith, the German industrial machinery corporation, will reduce the number of works councils at its company headquarters. As of March next year, when the works council elections are scheduled to...

19 October 2017

SNCF: signs amendments to the SNCF EWC agreement

On 29 June 2017, the French rail company signed its first amendments to the 2012 agreement that established its European Works Council.

19 October 2017

Safran signs a global agreement with IndustriALL Global

On 18 October the French high-tech aerospace and defence group signed a global framework agreement on corporate social responsibility and all of the company’s other major social and HR policy...

18 October 2017

Total: EWC agreement renewed

On 30 June 2017, oil and energy group Total renewed and amended the agreement governing the functioning of its European works council, in order to take into account how it has evolved since 2013.

18 October 2017

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