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Italy: Fiat announces new partial unemployment weeks for white-collar workers
Although the market revival caused by the government’s subsidies, which allowed to cancel some CIG periods (see our dispatch No. 090292), and the agreement with Chrysler gave the group’s employees...
Whikhahn: international framework agreement
With this agreement, the company, which only employs 600 people (400 at the headquarters in Germany), commits to respect the ILO’s international labor standards for all its employees. For the...
Great Britain: employers look for alternatives to laying managers off
How do businesses adjust to the economic crisis? According to the 2009 survey carried out by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the CELRE (the salary survey specialist), employers tend...
Suspension of the information thread for Easter
Planet Labor is suspending its information thread for Easter Monday and will be back with you on Tuesday 14.
10 April 2009
Hungary: subsidies to save jobs
Planet Labor, April 10, 2009, No. 090400 – www.planetlabor.com
Argentina: State pays for the wages of almost 40.000 workers to stop dismissals
After an agreement signed in March between the Argentinean government and the French carmaker Peugeot-Citroen, one in three workers of the Tres de Febrero, close to Buenos Aires, receives 600...
Hungary: individual employers and large businesses subject to the same strict liability for damages to their employees
Exception for individual employers. The invalidated provision established an exception from employer’s strict liability (i.e. no-fault liability) for damages caused to employees in connection with...
Italy: Cisl launches initiatives to help jobseekers in Emilia-Romania
Improve social cohesion. Roberto Pezzani, regional secretary of the Cisl’s Public Service, and Pier Ragazzini, Cisl general regional secretary explained that, to overcome the major economic crisis...
Finland: government revises CEOs’ bonuses and pensions in businesses partly owned by the State
New work group. Besides, recent cases showed that, in the absence of a specific system, heads of businesses enjoy contractual provisions that are extremely favorable in terms of pensions compared...
6 April 2009
EU: action against dismissal for pregnant women only may be contrary to Community Law
Facts. On January 25, 2007, a registered letter informed Mrs. Pontin, employed by T-Comalux in Luxembourg, that she was being dismissed for gross misconduct after three days of unjustified...
Romania: retirement age increased to 65 for men and 63 for women
According to the government, these measures are necessary and mandatory given the high number of retirees and the decreasing number of active people. A recent demographic analysis carried out by...
Italy: Council of Ministers agrees to reform the law on security at work
On March 27, the Council of Ministers approved the guidelines of the decree-law which amends decree-law No. 81/2008 – the Testo Unico on health and safety on the workplace (see our dispatch No...
Denmark: 45% of people laid off in November found another job within four weeks
Hyperactive employment centers. Jens Anker Hasager, responsible of an employment center in Arhus (the country’s second largest city) told the magazine that, in spite of the crisis, the labor...
Belgium: the national employment services publishes its 2008 annual report
Compensation figures. The average number of people receiving benefits from the ONEM each month, directly or indirectly, is the same as last year. In more detail, the group of jobseekers receiving...
Denmark: 3F criticizes the government’s “labor package”
“We cannot stop bad weather, but quick and targeted action may lessen damages.” This is how Minister of Labor Claus Hjort Frederiksen presented, on March 19, its four initiatives to support...
Poland: collective action threatens the mining sector
Planet Labor, March 20, 2009, No. 090309 – www.planetlabor.com
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