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Following four years of work at the European level, and in the hopes of improving working conditions at Amazon, UNI Global Union has undertaken efforts in organizing workers around the world. In...

2 July 2018

Austria: government forced to soften working time flexibility bill

In response to growing discontent, the chiefs of parliamentary groups from the parties forming Austria’s right-wing coalition government (ÖVP conservatives and FPÖ extreme–right) announced that...

29 June 2018

United States: public sector unions will no longer be able to levy union dues on non-members

The Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on 27 June, deals a severe blow to public sector trade union piggy banks. The ruling concerns ‘fair-share fees’, also known as ‘agency fees’, which are...

28 June 2018

India: technology sector hiring less manpower

Is India’s Tech miracle turning sour for the sector’s 3.9 million workers? For more than a year India’s media have been drawing attention to an increasing number of Tech sector redundancies. The...

28 June 2018

Japan: companies cosseting their new hires

Against a backdrop of increasing and broad-based manpower shortages, Japan’s employment landscape is undergoing profound change. With students now seeking better working conditions, Japanese...

28 June 2018

Germany: minimum wage set to rise in two stages, starting in January 2019

On 26 June, an independent commission, made up of employee and employer representatives, tasked with re-evaluating the legal minimum wage in Germany every two years, put forward its...

26 June 2018

Spain: unions and employers announce a pre-agreement clearing the way for salary changes after years of discord

Unions and employers announced that on 25 June they had agreed on the foundations for a framework agreement outlining guidelines for the collective negotiations that are set to take place over the...

26 June 2018

News update as of June 27, 2018

On the menu: in Spain, a Banco Santander agreement is secured over digital disconnection for employees, US staff at Bank of America are being trained for their replacement by robots, again in the...

25 June 2018

EU: Council agrees position on paid paternity and parental leave

Under a compromised agreed yesterday 21 June by labour ministers that met at the Council of the EU in Luxembourg, the right to 10 days of paid paternity leave will be introduced into EU law...

22 June 2018

Switzerland: National Council adopts draft law establishing reasonable due diligence requirement for multinationals

In order to avoid a more demanding law, which could result from the so-called ‘responsible business initiative’, and a vote on the issue, the lower house of the Swiss parliament decided to bring...

22 June 2018

Spain: new collective agreement in chemicals industry agreed in principle

On 20 June, social partners in the sector agreed on an annual pay rise of 2.5% over three years as well as new measures as regards professional training and policies on gender equality.

22 June 2018

Italy: Conte government preparing a work-related ‘dignity decree’

As the 5 Star Movement leader and Minister for both Economic Development and Labor, Luigi Di Maio announced, this ‘dignity decree’, which the Council of Ministers is expected to adopt by the end...

22 June 2018

EU: Council reaches compromise on draft directive for employment contracts

The Council of the European Union has struck an agreement in principle over a proposed directive on “transparent and predictable working conditions”, which aims first and foremost to lay the...

21 June 2018

France: Saint-Gobain signs a group agreement on the quality of life at work by way of encouraging new forms of working based on trust and responsibility

On 17 May an agreement was signed by all the union organizations present in the two-century old construction group that accompanies the company’s development towards a work organization that is...

21 June 2018

Brexit: streamlined residency procedure for Europeans living in the UK unveiled

After Brexit, Europeans who have been in the United Kingdom for five years and who want to obtain settled status in the country, will have to prove just three things: their identity, that they are...

21 June 2018

Italy: Poste Italiane and the trade unions sign an employment agreement that intends for major staffing renewal

Poste Italiane, Italy’s largest postal provider in terms of employees (140,000) has signed a protocol agreement with the trade unions on active employment policies. The agreement intends for 6,000...

21 June 2018

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