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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

Italy: insurance sector national collective agreement renewed

On 22 February and more than three years after the previous collective agreement reached its term, social partners in the insurance sector came to a draft agreement for renewing the national...

28 February 2017

United Kingdom: Uber and Deliveroo in plea for greater protection of freelance workers

When questioned by a UK parliamentary commission over how the so-called gig economy’s boom has affected the country’s social protection system, bosses at the mobile application Uber and the food...

24 February 2017

Solvay: global agreement signed on social protection floor for all employees

On the evening of 22 February, Belgian chemicals company Solvay signed an agreement with its global forum for social dialogue that puts in place a social protection floor, dubbed Solvay Cares, for...

23 February 2017

News update as of 22 February 2017

On the menu : PSA next to reassure employees and government authorities over potential Opel-Vauxhall takeover, Belgium/ pre-agreement reached on redundancy plan at Caterpillar in Gosselies, but...

20 February 2017

Italy: renewal of collective agreement in textile and fashion sector

Following 10 months of negotiations and a 16-hour strike, social partners from the textile, clothing and fashion sector managed to reach a draft agreement on the renewal of their collective...

20 February 2017

Germany: Martin Schulz, SPD candidate for chancellor, hopes to “correct” Schröder reforms

While often cited during the French election campaign, reforms to the labour market are also a source of controversy in Germany. In particular, it is the set of reforms introduced as part of...

20 February 2017

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