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Labor market reforms (Jobs Act), which lowered the social charges that were put in place by the Renzi government to encourage permanent employment contract hiring, came to an end at the start of...

23 May 2017

Sweden: an agreement for the temporary employment sector that is in line with the Swedish model

“Difficult negotiations” recognized LO (Landsorganisationen i Sverige/ The Swedish Trade Union Confederation) when it announced on 11 May 2017 that a new agreement for the temporary employment...

23 May 2017

Briefly, the first class action for discrimination at work in France

The first class action launched by a union organization may address union discrimination. On 23 May the CGT announced it had called on Safran's management to cease the difference in treatment for...

23 May 2017

Italy: collective agreement in gas and water sector renewed

Following 16 months of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached on 18 May between trade unions and employer organisations to renew the collective agreement for the gas and water sector. The...

19 May 2017

Japan: businesses responding to a continuing manpower shortage

In spite of moves to employ older workers and to rationalize human resources, Japan’s manpower shortage continues to worsen and is plunging the country’s labor market into a dilemma at a time when...

19 May 2017

Schneider Electric: a European agreement on the anticipation and development of competencies and employment with respect to its business strategy

On 18 May the world leader in energy management and automation solutions together with the European union federation, IndustriAll Europe, signed an agreement with that ‘sets out the minimum shared...

18 May 2017

Great Britain: Conservative party election manifesto addresses ‘Soft’ Brexit, controlled immigration, and new rights for workers

On 18 May Tory Prime Minister Theresa May presented her party’s election manifesto ahead of the 08 June polls. Should the Tories win, and the polls are overwhelmingly pointing to this outcome...

18 May 2017

Greece: vote over a new agreement as well as the country’s fourteenth pension reform

On 18 May Greece’s parliament votes on an agreement that was concluded during the Eurogroup in Malta on 07 April. In it Greece signs up to a 2% reduction in expenditure between 2019 and 2020...

18 May 2017

Briefly: chemical sector agreement in Belgium

Planet Labor, 18 May 2017, nº10214 - www.planetlabor.com

18 May 2017

Great Britain: real wages fall for the first time since 2014

Average weekly income (excl. bonuses) rose 2.1% in March in the UK, which is just below the current inflation rate of 2.3%. This is the first fall in real wages in three years. Unions are worried...

17 May 2017

Germany: metals workers seek more independence over deciding their working time

On 16 May and ahead of the metal sector collective negotiations that are scheduled to start this autumn, IG Metall president Jörg Hoffmann presented the results of the second part of the ‘giant’...

17 May 2017

OECD National Contact Point for France accepts a complaint filed by a US trade union against the Natixis banking group

In an landmark case, US employees at a California-based luxury hotel have filed a complaint against Natixis, the US subsidiary of which, AEW Capital Management, oversees the site in question...

17 May 2017

Spain: those in precarious occupations mobilize to defend their rights

Independent freelancers, workers on very short-term contracts, and ad hoc workers operating in sectors that are well under the trade unions radars are turning to social networks to mobilize...

16 May 2017

United States: US bosses earn 347 times more than the average rank and file

An AFL-CIO study has roundly criticized the growing pay gap between big stock market quoted company CEOs and regular employees. The labor group is calling for more transparence within businesses...

16 May 2017

Brexit : an interview with Elena Crasta, the UK Trade Union Congress’ Brussels-based European officer

On 5 May, the TUC published a worrying study on the negative impact that Brexit appears set to have on working rights of workers in Europe (see article n° 10192). Is the view put forward by the...

15 May 2017

Italy: law on Smart Working and independent working is definitively adopted

At its final reading on 10 May, Italy’s Senate finally adopted the law on measures that both protect independent workers and for the first time address Smart Working (flexibility over working time...

11 May 2017

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