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On Wednesday 18 May, Austria’s parliament adopted its first –law against social and wage dumping. For a long time Austria has been making provisions combatting lenient wage and social practices...

19 May 2016

Italy: final agreement for apprenticeships

On 18 May, Italy’s employers’ body, Confinindustria, together with the unions, Cgil, Cisl, and Uil signed a final agreement that sets rules over apprentice remuneration, which is a new provision...

19 May 2016

Germany: the DGB launches the MB-ix index to assess the relationship between co-determination and company sustainability

On 12 and 13 May during a conference on the future of co-determination jointly organized by the Hans Böckler Foundation and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Confederation of German Trade...

18 May 2016

United States: new rules extending the requirement to pay overtime

Up until now workers earning more than $23,660 per year could not qualify for overtime pay. On 18 May new rules presented by the Labor Ministry raise this annual threshold to $47,476, affecting...

18 May 2016

Germany: wage agreement secured for 785,000 building and construction workers

As Wednesday 18 May dawned, and following long drawn-out negotiations, the German building and construction union, the IG BAU, announced that it had secured a wage agreement with the sector’s main...

18 May 2016

Mexico: legal reform bill aims to give independence to the institutions tasked with dispute resolution and authorizing trade unions

In a bid to combat corruption and a lack of independence, the government will now have tribunals for federal and regional judiciary power administer labor justice. Specialized conciliation centers...

18 May 2016

Italy: agreement signed to manage upcoming changes at AXA Italia

Following a year of negotiations, on 03 May unions and management signed an agreement that intends to safeguard jobs and skills during AXA Italia’s upcoming restructuring and reorganization. The...

16 May 2016

Poland: shadow employment falling but remains significant

Over the last decade the size of the shadow economy in Poland has decreased sharply. This does not mean, however, that the problem no longer exists although estimates of its size vary greatly...

16 May 2016

South Korea: authorities promoting performance related pay within public sector banks

The country’s authorities via the Financial Services Commission (FSC), South Korea’s top financial regulator, are calling on State financial institutions to implement performance related pay...

16 May 2016

Germany: 4.8% wage rise for metals worker

On the morning of Friday 13 May, negotiators from both the employers’ federations (Gesamtmetall) and the union (IG Metall) in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) presented a pilot agreement...

13 May 2016

EU: the European Commission puts forward 13 new limits to workers’ exposure to chemical products

A month after launching its 2016 – 2017 occupational health and safety campaign, the European Commission has moved into top gear and on 13 May it presented occupational exposure limits (OELs) for...

13 May 2016

France: labour law reform bill adopted by National Assembly

The French government has used its executive powers to push through its labour code reform bill, which was adopted on Thursday 12 May. The text now goes before the Senate. The main issues at hand...

13 May 2016

United States: OSHA will publish company data on injuries and illnesses

Management at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the US Department of Labor body that supervises health and safety at work announced that it would be making data supplied by...

13 May 2016

Germany: pension reforms under debate

For several years Germany’s political parties have put forward competing proposals for pension reform in a bid to combat the risk of poverty for future retirees. The most recent proposal has come...

12 May 2016

Finland: coalescence of the three union confederations waxing and waning

Since 2014 Finland’s trade unions have been gearing up for a merger of the country’s three main confederations. Following an initial period when the project seemed to be on track without any major...

12 May 2016

Argentina: more than 200 businesses have committed to not laying off workers despite the recession

At the start of the week, the government of Mauricio Macri, President since 2015, loudly announced that the country’s big businesses had committed to halting any more redundancies ‘despedidos’ for...

12 May 2016

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