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In May 2017, following two years of detailed examination of Ontario’s changing workplaces, both special advisers C. Michael Mitchell and John C. Murray that Labor Minister Kevin Flynn tasked with...

22 January 2018

Stora Enso: global framework agreement signed

On Friday 19 January, Stora Enso, the Finnish-Swedish company that specialises in renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wood and paper, signed a global framework agreement with three...

22 January 2018

France: government looks to foster mobility of apprentices in Europe

Reforming France’s apprenticeships framework is currently under discussion among social partners, but the government believes the issue needs to be tackled not only on a national level but at the...

19 January 2018

Japan: older workers allowed to accumulate jobs

Job combining or accumulation has been prohibited for a longtime at Japan’s companies and their internal regulations have stated as much. However the Minister for Health Employment and Social...

19 January 2018

France: the automaker PSA becomes the first company to harness new permission to mutually terminate contracts through collective agreement

A majority of unions ( five out of six) at the French car manufacturer signed today (January 19) the agreements to make use of two new measures introduced as part of France’s new labour reform –...

18 January 2018

Spain: social partners prepare to renew the salary framework agreement

Employers and unions are getting set for the upcoming salary framework agreement negotiations due to start on 25 January that will serve as a guide for collective negotiations overall. This...

18 January 2018

India: how are the labor law reforms progressing?

Labor law reforms initiated by India’s government in 2014 are set to continue during 2018. The ultimate goal is to regroup 44 laws into four major codes namely, salaries, industrial relations...

18 January 2018

News update as of January 17, 2018

On the menu : paternity leave rises to 4 days in Italy, a new collective agreement at Swisscom focusing on employability and conciliation, A High Council for social dialogue is put in place in...

17 January 2018

Germany: towards a new law on economic immigration

On 12 January 2018, in the preliminary agreement presented by the future government coalition both conservative (CDU/CSU) and social-democrat (SPD) members (c.f. article No. 10520) announced their...

16 January 2018

Sweden: a new action plan for gender pay equality

‘Halva Makten, hela lönen’, (half the power all the pay). This is the message, power and influence maybe being shared but salaries should also be equal.. Thus the crux of the message declared on...

16 January 2018

Turkey: some of the legal changes from 2017

In this article we compile a number of articles on labour law changes which have been reproduced here, with kind permission from the law firm Gün +Partners website. The changes relate to the...

16 January 2018

News update as of January 12, 2018

Germany/Hopes of a new government. Following five days of intense negotiations, three German party leaders – Angela Merkel and Horst Seehofer of the CDU and CSU respectively, two conservative...

12 January 2018

Great Britain: an industrial strategy for the automotive sector

Following the first ‘Sector Deal’ for the Construction sector presented in November 2017, and the second, for the Life Sciences sector presented the following month in December 2017, on 10 January...

11 January 2018

Germany: more and more younger parents are opting for the ‘parental plus salary’

According to a report by the Families Ministry that the government adopted on 10 January 2018, the ‘parental plus salary’ provision (Elterngeld plus), which came into force on 01 July 2015, has...

11 January 2018

United States: New York association Fast Food Justice defending fast food sector employees

New York’s fast food workers have not managed to unionize. Introducing a trade union into a company is too long and complex a process. Until now, the sector’s major food chains including Mac...

11 January 2018

Greece: reform of the right to strike set for parliamentary vote on 15 January

Reform to the right to strike is just one of several pieces of legislation that the Greek parliament has to vote on before the Eurozone Finance Ministers meeting on 22 January. Greece’s trade...

11 January 2018

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