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In what appears to be a real culture clash, the USO trade body is criticizing the Charter agreed between management at the chemical company and its European Works Council, over recognition for...

17 February 2020

Denmark: new collective agreement reached in industry

On 9 February, the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI) and the Central Organisation of Industrial Employees in Denmark (CO-industri) struck a deal on a new collective agreement for industry. The...

14 February 2020

EU: the European Commission withdraws part of trade tariff preferences granted to Cambodia due to human rights violations

On 12 February the European Commission announced it was withdrawing some trade tariff preferences accorded to Cambodia because of ‘serious and systematic violations of the human rights principles...

13 February 2020

Spain: agreement at PSA for the Vigo and Madrid facilities

Agreements have just been signed for two PSA facilities in Spain. They both contain the same salary increase framework that depends on the Group’s European earnings, and a similar mechanism in...

12 February 2020

Spain: coffee and cigarette breaks can be omitted from working time calculations

Spain’s National High Court’s social chamber ruled that coffee, sandwich, and cigarette breaks can be omitted from working time calculations. The ruling came down in favor of the defendant Galp...

12 February 2020

Brazil: 10-day old Petrobras strike action extends across the whole country

Since 01 February, Brazil’s semi-public Brazilian multinational corporation, Petrobras has been hit with strike action that has now extended to almost 90 of its industrial sites (oil platforms and...

11 February 2020

Franco-German initiative for ‘in-house’ apprenticeships in industry, with greater focus on digital and language skills

The Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CFACI) and the French branches of four large German chemicals groups (BAYER, BASF, Merck and Boehringer) have teamed up to create a joint...

6 February 2020

Spain: CaixaBank extends its equality plan and includes recognition for the right to disconnect from work

On 21 January, and following three years of negotiations, management and trade unions at CaixaBank secured an agreement that completes and extend the scope of the bank’s first equality plan signed...

5 February 2020

Germany: collective negotiations in the metallurgy sector to commence ahead of schedule

On 04 February, the IG Metall trade union gave the green light for sector negotiations to commence, even though the current agreement runs until 31 March 2020. Thus 20 February is the date set for...

4 February 2020

Germany: ruling coalition broadens access to and the duration of partial unemployment alongside mandatory training

Germany’s ruling coalition has broadly responded to demands by the auto and metallurgy sectors’ social partners as laid out at the Federal Chancellery, during the ‘Auto Summit’ on 15 January 2020...

4 February 2020

Chile: agreement between H&M management and employees that lowers working hours down to 40 per week

On 24 January, after several weeks of low-key talks, H&M Chile group (Hennes & Mauritz AB) announced the conclusion of an agreement with the H&M Chile Workers Union that includes a...

4 February 2020

United Kingdom: what has and hasn’t changed with Brexit

On Friday 31 January, at midnight European time, the United Kingdom officially exited the European Union after 47 years. It marks the beginning of an 11-month transition period during which not...

3 February 2020

EU: fair minimum wage, platform workers, supply chain monitoring… Germany targets stronger social Europe during presidency of the Council of the EU

The government of the Federal Republic of Germany, which will assume the presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 July to 31 December 2020, is yet to finalise its programme for...

3 February 2020

L’Oréal: ‘employee human rights policy’ addresses issue of living wage

On Friday 31 January, French cosmetics group L’Oréal announced the launch of a new employee human rights policy, with which the firm pledges that “every employee’s human rights must be respected...

3 February 2020

Italy: ever more protection for delivery ‘riders’

Following the autumn 2019 decree-law that introduced measures protecting home meal delivery ‘riders’ (c.f. article No. 11336 and No. 11463), several events have recently moved in the direction of...

31 January 2020

Chile: Senate Labour Committee approves draft legislation lowering working time

On 29 January, Chile’s Upper House Labour Committee approved, by four votes to one, a piece of draft legislation under general review that looks to reduce the weekly working week from 45 hours...

30 January 2020

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