Labour relations

On Wednesday 15 March, and following several months of negotiations, Argentine President Mauricio Macri presented the primary goals of what has been a much-anticipated agreement for the sector...

16 March 2017

GeoPost: Global Agreement signed between GeoPost and UNI Global Union

On 14 March, the French parcel delivery group GeoPost and the international union federation UNI Global Union, together with the French union members of UNI signed a global agreement on...

15 March 2017

Denmark: a 5.85% pay rise over three years in the banking sector

On 28 February a three-year agreement was secured between the Finansforbundet union and the employers’ body, Finanssektorens Arbejdsgiverforening that covers some 43,000 in the banking sector. The...

15 March 2017

Great Britain: Asda supermarkets propose ‘flexible contracts’ in return for a 14% pay rise

Asda, the UK’s third largest supermarket chain, after Tesco and Sainsbury’s, and owned by US giant Wal-Mart, is offering its 135,000 staff the option to switch to ‘flexible contracts’ from October...

15 March 2017

France: health and safety agreement signed for the interim sector

In the week of 06 March 2017, the organization representing temporary employment businesses, Prism’Emploi, and four out of the five union organizations (CGT, CFDT, FO, and CFTC) signed an...

14 March 2017

PSA Group global agreement: an interview with Valter Sanches, general secretary of the global union federation IndustriALL Global Union

Alongside the signing on 07 March of PSA Group's new global framework CSR agreement (see our article 10104), Planet Labor had the opportunity to interview Valter Sanches on both his vision and...

8 March 2017

PSA Group: Xavier Chéreau HR Director, “With our new global agreement, we want to assume our social and societal responsibility and support the enterprise’s success”

On 07 March the signing of PSA Group’s new global framework agreement (c.f. article No. 10104) provided an opportunity for Xavier Chéreau HR Director of the auto group to reply to some questions...

8 March 2017

PSA Group: renewal of its global CSR agreement

On 07 March the French carmaker together with the union federations IndustriAll Global and industriAll European Trade Union signed a new global CSR agreement and with it the PSA Group has crossed...

6 March 2017

Japan: companies focus on Premium Friday

Encouraging employees to leave work early at around 15.00 hrs on the last Friday of every month, leaving them time to go shopping or travel, is the goal of the Government led ‘Premium Friday’...

6 March 2017

Slovakia: automobile unions drive for higher salaries

Unions operating within the sector’s symbolic automakers, Kia Motors Slovakia, Volkswagen Slovakia, and PSA, have started 2017 with strong wage rise demands. This year they are calling for...

6 March 2017

China: FAW-Volkswagen temp workers protest against unequal treatment

According to German correspondents and information from the China Labour Bulletin (CLB), a Hong Kong-based NGO, there has been a rare series of protests at the automobile manufacturer...

3 March 2017

United Kingdom: companies form the key stone of the government’s new digital strategy

More than 4 million UK citizens will receive free digital training over the next few years. This is the promise UK prime minister Theresa May has made, as part of plans to build for the country’s...

3 March 2017

Germany: agreement in textile sector for 4.4% wage raise

On Wednesday 1 March, social partners from the textile sector struck an agreement on a wage raise. The agreement provides for a 4.4% increase in total and it will affect 100,000 employees in the...

3 March 2017

EU: European union federations start setting out the changes they want seen effected in the EU Directive on EWCs

On 31 January the European Federation of Building and Woodworkers (EFBWW), the European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and Tourism (EFFAT), the European Public Services Union...

2 March 2017

Great Britain: companies urged to raise employee ethnic diversity

In a shock report commissioned by the UK government and published on 28 February it was revealed that treating black and minority ethnic (BME) employees in the same way as other employees could...

28 February 2017

Spain: souring relations between employers’ bodies and unions over the national framework agreement negotiations on salaries and collective bargaining

Since the end of 2016, discussions between the social partners on a framework for salary recommendations, which should have come into force on 01 January 2017, and which should allow businesses to...

28 February 2017

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