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Workers sitting on the boards of directors and shareholders controlling company executive pay are two unexpected promises from Conservative MP Theresa May who is expected to replace David Cameron...

12 July 2016

Argentina: trade unions hold a ‘monopoly’ on strike action

Only trade union organizations can decide on strike action or on ‘other workplace measures’. Thus the ruling in June 2016 by Argentina’s Supreme Court ending the ambiguity that has surrounded...

12 July 2016

Russia: Vimpelcom developing teleworking on a large scale

Only 4% of employees in Russia telework, compared with 34% in the U.S. However, according to a study carried out by J’son & Partners Consulting and which appeared in 2015, by 2020 that number...

12 July 2016

Eni: renewal of the global framework agreement signed with IndustriALL Global including a world works council

IndustriALL Global Union and Italian energy giant Eni have renewed their global framework agreement, with improved rights for 33,000 direct employees in 65 countries including a world works...

11 July 2016

France: auto company PSA signs a new performance agreement

On Friday 08 July, unions representing 80% of the votes cast during the latest elections signed a new triennial agreement running from 2017-2019. In it PSA commits to hiring 1,000 permanent...

11 July 2016

Ireland: freelance workers en route to having the right to collective bargaining restored

The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016, which aims to relieve collective agreements negotiated by freelance worker organizations from competition rules is about to pass the Seanad (Senate house)...

11 July 2016

France: executives at Orange (ex-France Telecom) risk standing trial for moral harassment

The public prosecutor’s office in Paris has called for three former executives at the Orange company to stand trial for workplace harassment. The three in question are Didier Lombard, the then...

11 July 2016

Great Britain: the government focuses on reconverting workers in the crisis stricken oil sector

Faced with mass layoffs in the North Sea oil sector, the British government is trying to encourage workers to seek skilled work in sectors with manpower shortages.

8 July 2016

Myanmar: the Vision Zero Fund for the prevention of workplace accidents is launched

On 17 June in Yangon, German Secretary of State for Employment Yasmin Fahimi and the Myanmar Minister for Labor H.E.U Thein Swe inaugurated the fund aimed at creating and/or bolstering local...

7 July 2016

Estonia: employers and unions start to set out lay the groundwork for the annual autumn negotiations

In the run up to the autumn tri-partite negotiations, employers are increasingly finding ways of drawing attention to what may turn out to be the problem that wage increases will pose for...

7 July 2016

France: the Court of Cassation delivered two new rulings on the concept of co-employment within company groups

On 06 July the Labour Division of France’s Court of Cassation ruled that Continental AG, Continental France’s parent company, did not have co-employer status alongside its French subsidiary. The...

7 July 2016

Spain: Telefónica installation network scrutinised by the Catalonia labour inspectorate

On 30 June Catalonia’s regional government, the Generalitat de Catalunya, presented the results of an open inquiry into Telefónica’s chain of suppliers and subcontractors which offer technical...

5 July 2016

Norway: hard-fought deals in the oil sector

Negotiations in the oil sector have been brought to a close with the help of mediation. It is a difficult period for the industry and this can be seen in both the discussions which took place and...

5 July 2016

Sweden: a new postal sector agreement focuses on working time

On 29 June an agreement was struck between the employers’ confederation Almega, and the services and communications union Seko (service- och kommunikationsfacket). Decisions over working time are...

5 July 2016

International: four companies sign the ILO Global Business and Disability Network charter

On 29 June at the head offices of host and 2016 ILO Global Business and Disability Network president, Carrefour, four companies, namely BNP Paribas, IBM, Repsol, and Sodexo joined the originating...

4 July 2016

EU: UNI Europa has published its first results from a study across five European countries investigating the ‘gig economy’

Commissioned by the services union federation UNI Europa and carried out jointly by the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), the independent research organization TNO Netherlands...

4 July 2016

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