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EU : on 04 May the EU Official Journal published regulations governing personal data protection

4 May 2016

EU: interview with Oliver Röthig, Regional Secretary of UNI Europa, the European services workers union

UNI Europa held its conference from 14-16 March in Rome where 800 delegates gathered together to discuss ways stronger trade unions can change Europe via more powerful negotiating and promoting...

2 May 2016

EU: European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) presents a European Quality Framework for Apprenticeships

On Tuesday 26 April, the ETUC presented twenty quality standards for apprenticeships in Europe. This initiative presented by the union confederation in conjunction with Unionlearn (the education...

2 May 2016

Germany: employers and unions launch a joint initiative to adapt occupational training to the challenges of ‘Industry 4.0’

Does the content of both the metals and electro-technical sectors’ initial and continuous occupation training programs actually suit the needs of industry’s future needs, i.e. of ‘Industry 4.0’?...

29 April 2016

France: next week the National Assembly deputies commence studying the labor law reform draft against a backdrop of union mobilization

On Thursday 28 April, more than 170,000 demonstrated against the draft labor law reform that is set for debate next week in the National Assembly. Seven unions calling for the text to be withdrawn...

29 April 2016

Norway: agreement for the postal sector

In just 48 hours the Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund (NTF/ Norwegian transport workers) together with the employers’ body NHO Logistikk og Transport (NHO LT) struck an agreement covering several...

29 April 2016

Estonia and the Nordic countries: employers look to promote immigration

Welcome to Estonia! This was the banner slogan under which the country’s confederation of employers’, Eesti Tööandjate Keskliit’s annual conference was held at the beginning of March and which...

28 April 2016

Sweden: a roundup of the 2016 collective agreement negotiations

‘Much ado about nothing’. Thus Sweden’s 2016 round of negotiations come to calm close after having commenced amid much hot air and controversy. Recalcitrant unions toed the line and kept to the...

28 April 2016

Nokia: puts a support package in place for workers laid off after mass redundancies

As expected, Nokia’s acquisition of Franco-American rival Alcatel-Lucent has had significant social consequences. Although the Finnish group did not provide any global figures beyond 1,300 job...

27 April 2016

Netherlands: PostNL postal workers conclude collective agreements over pay and working conditions

PostNL management and the trade unions FNV Public Interest, Union of Postal Employees, CNV Public Services and VHP2 have reached an agreement in principle over pay and working conditions for...

27 April 2016

Norway: towards more senior women in the oil and gas sector

The Nordic Research Institute, Norut has just published a study* on gender representation and influence in the oil and gas sector, which was commissioned by the employers’ body OLF and follows up...

27 April 2016

Inditex: the fashion retail group is turning to union experts for assistance in implementing the global framework agreement on fundamental rights along its supply chain

On 25 April the Spanish fashion retail giant and the international union federation IndustriALL Global signed a global agreement that will deploy trade union experts per country or region who will...

26 April 2016

Great Britain: the government unveils details of the new apprenticeship levy

The apprenticeship levy was introduced in the 2015 Budget. In a bid to reach its goal of 3 million apprentices, the government had announced it would be putting an apprenticeship levy in place in...

26 April 2016

Argentina: a banking sector agreement is struck and the metals sector starts to mobilize

Following negotiations marked by a series of mobilizations, a banking sector agreement was eventually forthcoming during Argentina’s overall sectoral negotiations. The trade union secured an...

26 April 2016

Great Britain: even City bosses are re-examining their own salaries

Is the era of the ‘fat cat’ coming to an end? This is the question that the UK is starting to ask itself as a shocking report, paradoxically presented by some of the City’s biggest leaders...

25 April 2016

Poland: independent workers to be able to unionize

At the end of March 2016, Poland’s Minister for Labor and Social Policy presented a draft law to the social partners for consultation on implementing legislation in line with the Constitutional...

25 April 2016

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