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News update as of April 19, 2018
On the menu: an upturn in real salaries in the UK, principal social measures in Belgium’s law to bolster economic growth and social cohesion, employees in Portugal now have the right to oppose...
19 April 2018
Germany: new employment Minister seeks to introduce the right to temporary part-time employment from January 2019
On 17 April, barely five weeks into his new office as Minister for Social Affairs and Employment and SPD Hubertus Heil has submitted his first draft law to government on the introduction of the...
18 April 2018
Schreiber: EWC, EFFAT and management signatures to a declaration on inclusion, diversity and equality at the workplace
On 05 April during the EWC annual meeting the milk products group signed with the European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) a declaration on inclusion, diversity...
18 April 2018
Foodora: riders attend first European meeting in Vienna
Representatives of employees from six of the ten European Member State subsidiaries operating meal delivery services from Foodora met on 11 April in Vienna, and is the first European meeting of...
18 April 2018
Japan: springtime negotiations to remedy contracting salaries
Japan’s ‘Shunto’ (springtime social dialogue) is expected to deliver an overall rise in salary levels for 70% of large companies. Ever since 1952 unions launch the annual ‘Shunto’ between March...
18 April 2018
Germany: Schaeffler, its WC and IG Metall seeking together to meet the digital challenge
Formerly at ‘daggers drawn’, family run Schaeffler, its WC and the IG Metall union adopted on 16 April a ‘Pact for the future’, which IG Metall believes may become a model for the auto sector. In...
17 April 2018
Poland: establishment of a competences planning Council
On 04 April, Poland’s government officially launched a Rada Progamowa (competences planning Council). The Council’s primary objective is to formulate guidelines to reform the education system in...
17 April 2018
Germany: ‘generous’ deal reached at Deutsche Telekom amid pressure of digitalisation
On 12 April, after a fourth meeting, negotiators from Deutsche Telekom and the services trade union Verdi announced that they had reached a compromise that is likely to please the 55,000 employees...
13 April 2018
Brazil: labour market begins to adjust to the ageing population by harnessing the human qualities of older workers
In 2017, a number of Brazilian companies launched their first-ever recruitment campaigns specifically targeting workers over the age of 50. Such individuals are experiencing heightened interest...
13 April 2018
Italy: rescue plan for the former Alcoa Sardinia steel facility sparks debate over worker participation in companies’ capital structures
To general surprise, on 09 April during a meeting on a rescue plan for the Alco Sardinia steel facility, Carlo Calenda, Italy’s Minister for Economic Development announced that the project...
12 April 2018
Brazil: as the government launches its agenda for ‘Industry 4.0’, unions are seeking consultation and dialogue on the future of jobs
In mid-March Brazil’s Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade put a series of measures forward that aim to stimulate ‘the industry of the future’. The metals union has harshly criticized the lack...
12 April 2018
Rana Plaza; five years on
It was almost five years ago when on 24 April 2013 the 8-storey Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed resulting in 1,134 fatalities and 2,000 injured. At the time the disaster caused a great...
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12 April 2018
Germany: a new collective agreement at Deutsche Post allows employees to choose between more money and more free time
In line with recent sector and company level negotiations that indicate how Germany’s workers are seeking ways to achieve a better work-life balance, Deutsche Post’s (DP) 130,000 employees, who...
11 April 2018
Great Britain: satisfied senior managers but with the low skilled stuck in their jobs, the CIPD provides its first overview of how good job quality is in the UK
On 11 April, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the professional body for HR and people development, published its first broad survey on the quality of jobs in the UK...
11 April 2018
EU: European social partners are divided over the New Deal for Consumers
Europe’s New Deal for Consumers, which in particular aims to introduce a system of limited collective recourse across the EU has met with hostility from representatives of both workers and private...
11 April 2018
News update as of 10 April 2018
On the menu :wage gap law on the way in Ireland, towards a right to disconnect in North America/?, japanese draft law to combat work-related mortality due to overwork, the number of company rating...
10 April 2018
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Oliver Dietrich (IG Metall): “The advent of AI can be a means of deepening social partnership within companies”
In Germany, trade unions want to influence how AI is deployed in companies. Oliver Dietrich is an AI project manager at the regional office of the IG Metall trade union in North Rhine-Westphalia...
21 January 2026
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EU: social partners split over competitiveness and action on job quality
The European Trade Union Confederation and BusinessEurope have published their response to the consultation document on the European Commission's upcoming EU quality jobs initiative. The two...
4 February 2026
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Germany: collective bargaining negotiations begin in chemical industry
Collective bargaining talks in Germany’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are due to open this week, covering nearly 580,000 employees across around 1,700 companies. With the sector facing...
3 February 2026
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Italy: new generational renewal agreement penned at UniCredit
The agreement signed on 30 December by UniCredit, Italy’s second-largest banking group, with the Fabi, First-Cisl, Fisac-Cgil, Uilca and Unisin trade unions aims to continue generational...
15 January 2026
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France: social partner talks extend far beyond contractual terminations
After a false start on 3 December, French social partners resumed talks on 7 January 2026 on potential changes to the unemployment insurance agreement, including the rules governing compensation...
12 January 2026
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EU: banking sector social partners commit to combating violence and harassment
On 15 January, the trade union federation UNI Europa Finance and three employers’ associations in the banking sector signed a joint statement on preventing violence and harassment in the...
16 January 2026