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Brazil: IT sector trade unions facing challenges in attracting younger members
Over recent years Brazil’s information and technology sectors have grown rapidly and are now number 7 in the world. Brazil’s population is ‘internet connected’ and attracted to good pay and growth...
7 March 2018
Argentina: a slight upturn in employment as well as an increase in the number and proportion of self-employed
Argentina’s Labor Ministry published its employment data for 2017, which revealed a slight upturn by way of a 2.2% annual increase in the number of employed as well as a dramatic increase in the...
7 March 2018
News update as of March 6, 2018
On the menu : a gig economy employer obliged to officially recognize a trade union in the UK, Clarification of maximum working time in Korea, Salary agreement for the Volkswagen Autoeuropa plant...
6 March 2018
Alstom-Siemens Mobility merger: unions are calling for measures to safeguard the future of jobs in Europe’s rail industry
In the wake of a union coordination meeting that was organized in Brussels by industriAll Europe in Brussels on 14 February at the close of a, trade unions from Germany, Austria, Belgium, the UK...
5 March 2018
France: bolstering individual rights to occupational training
This is the second series of employment-related reforms and follows the first that in 2017 addressed the labor law. On 05 March the Labor Minister promised a ‘big bang’ reform as she presented the...
5 March 2018
Portugal: social dialogue over labour code reform at an impasse but yet to break down
Social partners in Portugal are continuing social dialogue, as part of which they are discussing significant changes to the labour code adopted during the period of austerity in the country...
2 March 2018
Germany: attempts from extreme-right union to infiltrate factories provokes concern
For several months, the German press has been raising the alarm as extreme right-wing trade union Zentrum Automobil (ZA) has attempted to gain a foothold in the country’s automobile sector...
2 March 2018
Brexit: Theresa May expresses desire for a labour mobility framework (in brief)
On Friday 2 March, the UK prime minister presented her vision for the UK’s future partnership with the European Union after Brexit. For the first time, Theresa May clearly stated her desire to...
2 March 2018
EU : an agreement on posted workers yet to be confirmed
Europe’s co-legislators have cautiously announced an agreement on draft legislation treating posted workers, which aims to combat social dumping.
1 March 2018
Italy : industry social partners conclude an agreement for collective bargaining reform
Following 18 months of discussions, Confindustria president, Vincenzo Boccia and the secretaries general of the Cgil, Cisl, and Uil unions came to agreement on 28 February over a text that is set...
1 March 2018
Brexit: the UK concedes on European citizens’ rights whilst still firmly rejecting first draft of the treaty
On 28 February, and based on the initial agreement signed in December 2017, a draft Brexit treaty drawn up by the EU and for the first time formulated in legal text was presented in Brussels (c.f...
1 March 2018
France: a certification by the Statutory Auditor used to determine a profit-share reserve cannot be called into question as part of litigation over the profit-share, even when the employee representatives expose company fraud
In a decision handed down on 28 February 2018, the Labor Division of France’s highest appeals court, the Chambre sociale de la Cour de Cassation, quashed without referral a February 2016 decision...
1 March 2018
United States: joint-employer status is ‘back in business’
A key ruling dating from December 2017 by the Republican dominated NLRB federal agency (National Labor Relations Board) on joint-employer status has been thrown out, because one of the five voting...
28 February 2018
General Electric puts a EWC structure in place comprising a central committee and business committees to fit GE’s multiple business operations companies structure
These EWC negotiations had a number of goals, not least to learn from the GE acquisition of Alstom’s energy business and provide representation for all European employees within the group’s...
28 February 2018
The Global Deal à la Française emphasizes international social dialogue
Launched in September 2016 by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, the Global Deal initiative seeks to use social dialogue as the vector to restate and rebalance the economic and social dimension...
27 February 2018
EU: the European Trade Union Institute calls for collective, organised working time reduction
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) has honed its focus on the issue of reducing working time. During a lunch/debate held on 22 February in Brussels, the independent research and training...
26 February 2018
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France: austerity measures proposed in social security financing bill for 2026
Limits on sick leave, the end of social security exemptions for apprentices, and the introduction of additional birth leave: the 2026 social security financing bill, presented to parliament on 14...
16 October 2025
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Netherlands: ING cites AI as it plans to cut around 950 jobs
Dutch bank ING has informed the employment agency UWV that it may cut around 950 jobs by 31 December 2026. In its notification on 20 October, the lender said the planned reductions stem partly...
30 October 2025
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United Kingdom largely retained within scope of EWCs despite Brexit, study shows
A study published this month by the Institute for Economic and Social Research, the French trade union research organisation, examined how the involvement of British representatives in European...
7 November 2025
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Romania: collective agreement extended to entire insurance sector
On 3 November, Romania’s National Tripartite Council for Social Dialogue approved the extension of the collective labour agreement signed on 23 May by the Confederation of Employers in the...
10 November 2025
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Italy: new collective agreement for managers in tertiary sector
On 5 November, the ManagerItalia union and the employers’ association Confcommercio renewed the collective agreement for managers in Italy’s tertiary, distribution and services...
12 November 2025
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Germany: legal battle at Tesla ahead of works council election
The Frankfurt/Oder labour court has postponed a mid-November hearing in the case between the IG Metall union and Michaela Schmitz, employee representative and head of the works council at the...
28 October 2025