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On 13 July and as expected, Brazil’s President Michel Temer enacted the law that the Senate had adopted the previous week. Seen as the most significant reform since the establishment seventy years...

19 July 2017

Italy: the Uil central union launches a database of company and regional agreements

On 11 July the Uil presented project DIGIT@UIL, which is a database of some seven hundred second level agreements (local and company). The software, which will be open to the public in September...

19 July 2017

Axa: EWC’s role in the group’s digital transformation process (interviews)

Axa Group’s European Works Council (EWC) has some twenty years of experience with social dialogue under its belt not least concerning the agreement regulating its own operations but also the...

19 July 2017

EU: CJEU indicates that Germany’s legislation can retain the right for representatives of establishments in Germany to participate on supervisory boards

In an ruling delivered on 18 July, the CJEU declared that the EU Member States can legally choose to retain their right of representation and the collective defence of workers’ interests within...

18 July 2017

The accident prevention fund, Vision Zero Fund, starts its first African project in Ethiopia

A few days after the G20 summit meeting in Hamburg, where in a landmark move the twenty richest nations made a commitment in their final declaration to promote the implementation of social and...

18 July 2017

Spain: unions hoist the standard of Catalan independence

Trade unions have taken up their positions vis-à-vis Catalan independence. The large central unions, the UGT and the CCOO, which at national level back a federal and pluralist Spain, have signaled...

18 July 2017

Briefly: workers at the Nissan Canton (Mississippi) site will vote on 3 and 4 August on a UAW presence

On 17 July the US auto union announced it had secured an agreement with the Nissan site management to organize a two-day NLRB supervised vote that would allow the blue-collar workers to vote in...

18 July 2017

United Kingdom: government has published its Brexit related European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

Last Thursday, July 13th, the UK government published the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Act 2017. What this Act will do, if enacted, is to incorporate into UK law as domestic law all...

17 July 2017

Netherlands : new collective labour agreement (CAO) for metal and electrical engineering industry

On the 21st of April, employers and trade unions have reached an agreement on the new Collective labour agreement (CAO) for Metal and electrical engineering industry. In the beginning of June, the...

17 July 2017

Last minute news; the UK government has published its Brexit related European Union (Withdrawal) Bill

This draft legislation looks to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act that gave EU law supremacy over UK national law and introduced EU treaties into UK national law. It also aims to confirm...

13 July 2017

Argentina: metals and oil sectors conclude wage agreements

Two key industrial sectors concluded their annual wage agreements (Paritaria) in June. The oil and metals sectors signed separate specific agreements after hard fought compromises were wrung from...

13 July 2017

Briefly, Norway’s new law on whistle-blowers

On 16 June and in the light of the research foundation, Fafo’s, 2016 business study, Norway’s parliament adopted an amendment to its workplace law ‘Arbeidsmiljøloven’ that alters regulations over...

13 July 2017

France: spotlight on the country’s labor law reforms

France’s social partners are set to continue consultation on the country’s labor law reforms until the end of July but already potential avenues for navigating between the different negotiations...

12 July 2017

Brazil: Senate adopts the labor code reform

The draft law proposing changes to Brazil’s labor regulations on over some one hundred points (see our article n°10171) was adopted by the country’s senators in Brasilia during the evening of...

12 July 2017

Great Britain: Taylor report advocates clarifying a status for gig workers

On 11 July the much-awaited Matthew Taylor review on the world of work commissioned by PM Theresa May at the end of 2016 was presented. In it the former advisor to former Labour PM Tony Blair...

12 July 2017

EU: new occupational exposure limits to combat cancer

EU co-legislators are in full agreement to establish stricter standards over workplace concentration levels for thirteen cancer or mutation-causing chemical agents. In keeping its position...

12 July 2017

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