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Following months of controversy, Germany’s government coalition (CDU/CSU, and SPD) heads finally agreed in a closed meeting at the Finance Ministry during the evening of 10 May on a new regulation...

11 May 2016

United States: Uber commits to monthly dialogue with the Independent Drivers Guild

California’s ‘ride-hailing’ company, Uber has come to an agreement with drivers of the New York Independent Drivers Guild, which is linked with the International Association of Machinists and...

11 May 2016

Great Britain: Lloyds bank to offer staff transgender surgery

Lloyds Banking Group will be the first business to offer gender reassignment surgery to its employees through its existing private healthcare provider.

11 May 2016

Argentina: negotiations in the metals sector come to a close

Following last week’s demonstration and against a backdrop of scheduled mobilizations should negotiations fail, the metals workers’ union, UOM (unión obrera metalúrgica) has signed a 35% wage...

11 May 2016

EU: national parliaments putting the proposal for a directive on the posting of workers at risk

The revision to the EU rules on the posting of workers has clearly upset some of the EU Member States. After the Monti 11 2012 regulation (that limited the cross-border right to strike) met with...

10 May 2016

Norway: a round up of 2016 negotiations

2016 is an important year for negotiations and although the industry pay rise of 2.4% set the tone, several sectors have nonetheless run into negotiations difficulties. Kjetil Olsen, economist at...

10 May 2016

Spain: the UGT union confederation establishes one large industry federation within its ranks and similar moves are on the cards for its services federations

The UGT central union confederation has embarked upon its reorganization program by merging its currently operating federations with an end goal of leaving just three mega-federations covering...

10 May 2016

Great Britain: the construction industry’s union blacklist scandal comes to a close with millions paid in compensation

In excess of £10 million (€12.6 million) is set to be paid out to 256 workers in an agreement reached on 09 May between the Unite union and various construction companies, finally putting an end...

9 May 2016

Greece: pension reform vote amid continued protest

On Sunday 08 May, Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tspiras fast tracked a vote by parliament on pension reforms. On the eve of an important Eurogroup meeting, Athens is striving to look good so that...

9 May 2016

Chile: government tries to save the essence of its labor law reform after the Constitutional Tribunal orders changes to be made

President Michelle Bachelet’s executive has had to backtrack on some of its labor law reform that looked to strengthen the role of trade unions (c.f. article No. 9601) that to date have been...

9 May 2016

Great Britain: the highly controversial and modified Trade Union Bill is now ready to become law

After a series of defeats and concessions, the Conservative government’s Trade Union Bill has finished its passage through parliament and is now ready to gain royal assent so that it becomes the...

4 May 2016

News update as of 4 May 2016

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

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