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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

Spain: employers and unions on the point of secure agreement over salaries

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

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