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Portugal’s Parliamentary Working Group for reform of the country’s labor code has voted in favor of the principle of sanctions to be levied for companies’ excessive use of fixed-term employment...

9 July 2019

Spain: platform to promote union pluralism launches

Seven independent trade unions have joined forces to promote greater diversity of opinion, amid the so-called ‘duopoly’ of the CCOO and UGT, the two leading forces that dominate the union...

8 July 2019

Germany: agreement in banking sector for 4% pay rise and measures in view of digital transition

Social partners from Germany’s banking sector, including both public and private banks, unveiled the result of their negotiations on the morning of Thursday 4 July. The new collective agreement...

5 July 2019

Poland: nine new sectoral skills councils to be set up (in brief)

Poland’s national skills planning council, a body set up to help adapt the country’s skills pool to the needs of its labour market (see article n°10641), announced on 28 June that nine new...

5 July 2019

Germany: partial unemployment on the rise (in brief)

According to a survey by the Munich-based research institution, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, 8.5% of companies are now resorting to partial unemployment measures, making this the...

4 July 2019

Great Britain: the gig economy – a threat or opportunity for British trade unions

With 4.7 million British currently estimated as working on a per-job basis across a variety of online work platforms, trade unions and experts in the field agreed to discuss with Planet Labor the...

3 July 2019

Belgium: chemical sector agreement signed for 2019-2020

On 26 June Belgium’s chemical sector social partners signed a sector protocol agreement, just weeks after the 2019-2020 AIP (cross-industry agreement) negotiations fell through (c.f. article No...

3 July 2019

Italy: hotel group Marriott and trade unions sign a document combatting sexual harassment (in brief)

In a first for the global hotel group, and according to the minutes from the 28 June meeting between management at Marriott’s nine luxury hotels and the trade unions (Filcams-Cgil, Fisascat-Cisl...

3 July 2019

Airbus: first ever Airbus Global Forum (AGF) meeting has been held

During the international Paris Air Show, the first ever Airbus Global Forum (AGF) meeting was held at the Airbus Helicopters site in Paris Le Bourget on 20 and 21 June 2019. An entirely voluntary...

2 July 2019

Italy: social partners in the insurance sector commit to tackling gender-based violence (in brief)

ANIA, Italy’s insurance sector employers’ body that comprises the country’s main insurance companies, along with the relevant First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, FNA, SNFIA, and Uilca trade unions have...

2 July 2019

Portugal: opportunities for recourse to very short term employment contracts extended

A cross-party parliamentary working group representing Portugal’s National Assembly has approved extending very short-term employment contracts. Their duration will be more than doubled from 15 to...

2 July 2019

BEL: an agreement that puts a European Works Council in place

On 20 June, cheese group Bel (which employs just over 5,500 across Europe) along with the SNB and with assistance from EFFAT (European Federation of Trade Unions in the Food, Agriculture and...

26 June 2019

Austria: paternity leave to become a statutory right (Papamonat)/in brief

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26 June 2019

ENI: renews its global framework agreement (GFA) with IndustriALL Global Union

On 21 June, Italy energy company ENI, the global trade union federation IndustriALL Global Union, and three Italian sector-relevant trade unions renewed their GFA. In it the company commits to...

25 June 2019

Germany: failed agreement on the introduction of the 35-hour week in the former East Germany’s metal sector

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Germany is still divided. After an arduous seven-week strike in 1984, the 35-hour working week was secured in 1995 in former West Germany’s...

25 June 2019

Italy: innovative agreement struck at Luxottica

On 21 June, Italian eyewear company Luxottica (merged with Essilor) and trade unions Filctem-Cgil, Femca-Cisl, and Uiltec-Uil signed a particularly innovative company agreement (here) that will...

25 June 2019

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