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In a press statement published on 28 March, EFFAT, the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions announced a new EWC agreement for the French vegetable processing producer...

29 March 2017

France: collective agreement reached for umbrella companies

With the creation of a branch for umbrella companies in December, social partners were tasked with building a framework for the development of this form of employment – a halfway house between...

24 March 2017

Argentina: salary agreement in retail sector

The retail sector trade union in Argentina has reached an annual salary agreement with the country’s government and employers’ chambers. By striking the deal, the largest trade union in the...

24 March 2017

Finland: the president of the employers association seeks an end to collective agreements and looks to chop 10%-15% off salaries

The employers’ toughening stance is nothing new. At the end of spring 2016 employers (EK) announced that contrary to the general custom in place since the end of WWII they intended to suspend...

23 March 2017

Argentina: Mauricio Macri’s government to face its first general strike

Reunited in August 2016, following several years of schism that resulted in three union bodies (c.f. article No. 9796), and against a backdrop of morose economic conditions, the central CGT union...

21 March 2017

United Kingdom: 1.3 million workers have one foot in the gig economy, says CIPD study

According to a new study conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), 4% of the British working population work in the gig economy, essentially to top up their...

20 March 2017

EU: the European Trade Union Confederation confirms its position over the need for an improvement of the EU Directive on European Works Councils

On 16 March, the European Trade Union organisation’s executive committee confirmed its position over the improvement EU Directive 2009/38 on European Works Councils, one which places particular...

17 March 2017

Germany: steel sector set for 4% wage increase

The 72,000 steel sector workers based in North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Bremen will soon enjoy a wage increase. In the early hours of the morning on 17 March, at the end of a final...

17 March 2017

Norway: new salary agreement to boost low wages but casts doubt over local negotiations in several sectors

On 14 March, a salary agreement was reached by the two Norwegian confederations – the LO (the Confederation of Trade Unions) and the NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise). The agreement sets...

17 March 2017

Brazil: day of national mobilization protesting labor law and pensions reforms

Following a call by six central union bodies, 500,000 demonstrators gathered on 15 March in twenty-two of Brazil’s major towns and cities to declare their opposition to Michel Temer’s government’s...

16 March 2017

Argentina: a wide reaching plan to relaunch the auto industry

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

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