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After four months of negotiations between the majority of trade union representation at Caixabank and the bank’s leadership over a redundancy plan (Expediente de Regulación de Empleo, ERE), an...

13 May 2019

News update as of May 10, 2019

On the menu: in Germany Conservatives abandon opposition to draft ‘qualified immigration’ law, trade unions protest during Teleperformance’s shareholders annual meeting to raise shareholder...

10 May 2019

Amazon: a global trade union network being set up in an effort to shift practices by the online retailing giant

Invited by Germany’s Ver.di union (United Services Trade Union), on 29 and 30 April trade unions from the services and retail sectors across 15 different countries, along with representatives from...

9 May 2019

Poland: national politics dominating European election manifestos

Following our initial overview of the German political parties’ European election manifestos (c.f. article No. 11105) we continue our European review with this focus on Poland. Notable here is the...

9 May 2019

News update as of May 7, 2019

On the menu : Google minority shareholders place ethics and transparency (especially discrimination and harassment) on the 2019 annual shareholders meeting agenda, no working time rules for...

7 May 2019

Germany: chemical and metallurgy employers’ bodies disagree over ‘tax bonus’ for companies that apply collective agreements

How can the erosion of collective agreements and co-determination be effectively stemmed? This question has been more than niggling the political and trade union worlds for a decade. In 2015 and...

6 May 2019

Chile : the government wants to facilitate working-time flexibility

President of Chile Sebastián Piñera announced las Friday (may 3rd) the key provisions of a bill that will be presented this week to the Parliament aiming at « modernizing labor legislation » to...

6 May 2019

China: legal text aims to combat discrimination against women

On 21 February, a text introducing measures to curb discrimination against women in terms of their access to employment was jointly adopted by nine ministries and committees*, with a view to...

6 May 2019

France: the mandate of a staff representative within a EWC does not automatically terminate if they change union membership

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3 May 2019

Mexico: trade union legislative reforms definitively adopted

Mexico’s landmark labor reforms, which will make trade unions as well as conciliation and dispute resolution mechanisms more democratic, were a pre-requisite for ratification by the US and Canada...

3 May 2019

China: tech workers spark debate over relentless working culture, by raising awareness of their situation

At the end of March, a group of programmers in China set up the webpage 996.ICU, to bring attention to the lengthy working hours that are common practice in the country’s tech sector (see articles...

3 May 2019

Germany : Daimler head-office WC election is annulled on the basis that it is representing employees who are geographically too far away (in brief)

At the end of April 2019 and following complaints lodged by five candidates who unsuccessfully contested Daimler WC elections, the Stuttgart Labor Tribunal annulled the election for Daimler’s...

3 May 2019

Korian: signs agreement to establish an EWC

On 29 April 2019, Korian, a leading French multinational provider of medical and non-medical care and support services for the elderly and people with short or longer-term health issues across a...

30 April 2019

China: laborer’s outrage sparks an unprecedented wave of media attention

On 11 April a construction worker posted a video showing a striking difference in quality between regular builders’ protection helmets and those worn by site supervisors. Holding a regular...

30 April 2019

Germany: working time in textile sector in east and west to be aligned by 2027 under new agreement in east German sector (in brief)

The plan is part of a deal agreed during the night of 29 April between the union IG Metall and the employer federation VTI (for the textile industry in Lander in East Germany). It is the principle...

30 April 2019

Portugal: walkout in the retail sector set for 1 May

Following a call by the CESP, the trade union of retail and services workers – a member union of the FEPCES, the Portuguese federation of trade unions for retail, services and office workers...

30 April 2019

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