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Approved by the Romanian Parliament last week, the 2016 budget plans to freeze the gross minimum wage, currently 235 euros. An increase of 34 euros had been promised, however, by the previous...

21 December 2015

Belgium: Parliament approves tax shift which aims to improve companies’ competitiveness

On Friday 18 December, the Belgian Parliament approved new measures as part of the new tax shift. Most of these measures will come into force from 1 January 2016. Three main types of measure were...

21 December 2015

Italy: a second day of mobilization is set for tomorrow (19 December) as the retail sector pushes to unlock negotiations for a national collective agreement

The strike on 07 November by the retail unions was not enough to unblock currently quagmired negotiations with the sector’s employers’ bodies. So a second round is in store with a national...

18 December 2015

Denmark: back to the start for gender based wage statistics

The government set a draft law on gender based wage statistics before parliament that aims to cancel out a reform that came into force on 01 January 2015, which had extended the requirement for...

18 December 2015

Netherlands: preliminary assessments over collective bargaining outcomes for 2015

In the spring of 2015 observers noted serious delays in the conclusion of collective agreements. Recent evidence has changed the picture somewhat. Negotiations in certain sectors such as the large...

18 December 2015

France: together the Sherpa association and the consumer association Indocesa-CGT bring Samsung a summons to appear before the courts, on grounds of misleading commercial practices, following new revelations over child labor in China

On 17 December 2015, Sherpa announced that together with Indecosa-CGT it was bringing a summons to Samsung Electronics France (SEF) as well as Samsung in Korea to appear before the tribunal at...

17 December 2015

Germany: the Hans Böckler union foundation assess 2015’s crop of collective agreements

According to the Hans Böckler Institute of Economic and Social Research (WSI) the first conclusions to be drawn from the collective agreements struck in 2015 is that on the whole they were more or...

17 December 2015

Italy: Micron Semiconductor Italia renews its company agreement with special focus on flexibility and welfare

Micron’s company agreement signed on 14 December was approved by 83% of the company’s workers polled on 11 December. The agreement experiments with more flexible working hours and an increase in...

17 December 2015

EU: upcoming adoption of draft regulations on personal data protection

In the evening of 15 December, agreement was found between the representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers, and the European Commission over draft regulations on personal...

16 December 2015

Great Britain: Veolia signs an agreement with Prospect giving it exclusive union recognition at the company’s nine energy production units

The Prospect professional union has announced that it is set to become the most significant union in the burgeoning energy-from-waste sector following the signing of an exclusive recognition...

16 December 2015

Germany: the Verdi union renews warning strikes at the Real supermarket chain in a bid to convince management to reapply the sector’s collective agreements

In the run-up to the holiday period, services union Verdi has again called on its members at the German supermarket chain Real SB-Warenhaus GmbH (Real), which is owned by the Metro group, to stop...

16 December 2015

Sweden: Spotify and the TCO union promote the Swedish model

After “eat like a Swede” here comes “work like a Swede”. The Swedish music streaming group Spotify is spreading the country’s gender equality model by implementing a global parental leave policy...

15 December 2015

United States : Uber’s drivers in Seattle may now join a Union

The City Council of Seattle decided, last Monday, unanimously that Uber’s drivers may form a Union to negotiate their wages and work conditions.

15 December 2015

Great Britain: agreement on pensions at the British subsidiary of EDF

Members of the GMB union and Unison approved an agreement secured by their representatives over pensions at EDF’s British subsidiary. A rarity in the agreement, according to the unions, is the...

15 December 2015

Italy: the rubber and plastics sectors renew the national collective agreement

On 10 December the social partners in the rubber and plastics sectors concluded an agreement to renew the national collective agreement for the period from 01 January 2016 until 31 December 2018...

15 December 2015

France: clarification for arrangements over redeploying employees abroad as part of redundancy procedures

The government has clarified the procedure for redeploying manpower abroad relating to redundancies based on economic grounds. Since the law was passed on growth and activity (Loi Macron), unless...

14 December 2015

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