Labour relations

With the UK reeling from terrorist attacks, the Grenfell tower fire disaster, and the Conservatives recent election failure the traditional Queen’s speech, which sets out the new government’s...

21 June 2017

Germany: Andrea Nahles wants to encourage businesses to try out new forms of working organization in the new digital age

Three years after having launched a ‘national dialogue’ on the future of work in the digital age, and having published both a Green Paper and a ‘White Paper on Work 4.0’, Minister for Employment...

19 June 2017

Italy: Confindustria and the trade unions renew talks over collective bargaining reform

On 04 July, the social partners are set to meet and discuss representativeness of unions and especially employers’ body (given the latter’s fragmentation), employment policies, and company welfare...

19 June 2017

Spain: an agreement to safeguard work at the Nissan Avila site

Nissan’s truck assembly site at Avila that was under imminent threat of closure is to transform into an Renault-Nissan alliance equipment and parts production unit and will also be absorbed into...

15 June 2017

Barilla: signs a health and safety European agreement

On 31 May the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) together with members of Barilla Group’s EWC in representation of their respective trade unions signed a...

15 June 2017

Germany: Deutsche Telekom proposes part-time training nationwide in an effort to maintain workers’ employability in the digital era

At a time when digitalization of the economy is causing workers to fear for their jobs, and during a press conference held on 14 June at which Social-Democrat Minister for Employment and Social...

15 June 2017

United States: Trump looking to boost apprenticeships

US Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta used ‘Workforce Development Week’ to announce President Trump’s administration’s intentions for developing apprenticeships.

15 June 2017

Sweden: a new collective agreement and a new type of temporary employment contract for the retail sector

On 08 June, after challenging negotiations, an agreement on services, organization and retail business, affecting 80,000 employees, was struck between the trade unions Akademiker (third level...

14 June 2017

Germany: IG Metall reports on its research into ‘crowdworking’

On 09 June, IG Metall vice-president, Christiane Benner presented a summary of its organization’s ‘exploratory work’ into the area of ‘crowdworking’, where workers are paid per job via...

14 June 2017

Brazil: child labor rising among children aged between 5 and 9

Since 2013 Brazil has witnessed a rising number of child labor occurrences among children aged under ten. According to the latest study by the IBGE, Brazil’s Institute of Geography and Statistics...

14 June 2017

Solvay formalises its Global Forum, establishing it as a permanent body

On 7 June, Solvay group chief executive officer Jean-Pierre Clamadieu and Global Forum coordinator Albert Kruft signed a four-year agreement which formalises this body, which had been introduced...

8 June 2017

Italy: Intesa Sanpaolo launches ‘mixed’ employment contract, allowing workers to be half freelance and half employed

In an announcement recently published on LinkedIn and on its website, Intesa Sanpaolo wrote: “Are you interested in an employment opportunity that combines entrepreneurship and stability? If...

8 June 2017

Norway: unionization on the wane, fewer than one in two workers was a union member in 2016

Is this the end of a myth? Research foundation Fafo has just published 2016 statistics showing that only 49% of Norway’s employees are members of a trade union. Flirting with the 50% threshold for...

8 June 2017

Briefly, India’s IT trade unions try to play a role against a backdrop of redundancies hitting the sector

The bodies that aim to organize India’s engineers are looking to succeed at a time when a significant wave of redundancies is hitting the country’s IT sector (for more on the...

6 June 2017

Sweden: agreements reached across telecommunications sector

An agreement was reached on 17 May between the SEKO union (for service and communications employees) and the employer organisation IT&Telekomföretagen (for the telecoms and IT sectors, a...

2 June 2017

Spain: a new collective agreement for call centers

The CCOO and UGT unions together with employers’ body, the ACE, have signed a new collective agreement for the call center sector, which guarantees the maintenance of purchasing power and...

31 May 2017

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On 26 November, the Bulgarian government approved amendments to the labour code designed to reinforce the legal framework for sector-level collective bargaining. The reform aims to stimulate...

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On 16 December, the social partners in Europe's telecommunications sector unveiled a joint statement on artificial intelligence. They propose an action plan for skills and commit to raising...

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Inditex European works council mobilises on value sharing

In a joint statement, 10 trade unions comprising the European works council of the Inditex clothing group are calling for rallies in Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, France, Italy and Germany...

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