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27/01/2012 Alstom: European agreement on social commitments during the transition period of the joint venture between Alstom and Shanghai Electric

The European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) and Alstom management have already signed European agreements concerning social guarantees within the framework of an operation likely to have an impact on employment. ...

27/01/2012 EU: ECJ makes first breach to European laws on fixed-term contracts by allowing the renewal of fixed-term contracts for permanent needs

In a decree rendered on January 26, the ECJ ruled that the "renewal of fixed-term employment contracts may be justified by replacement needs, even where that need is recurring or ...

27/01/2012 United States: blow to collective bargaining in Indiana

In the collective bargaining war between unions and 'right to work' advocates in the US, the latter have just won a battle in the country's manufacturing center. (Ref. ...

27/01/2012 Spain: revisiting the 2nd agreement on employment and collective bargaining 2012, 2013 and 2014

On January 25, at the headquarters of the Social and Economic Council, the general secretaries of the Workers' Commissions and UGT union, Ignacio Fernandez Toxo and Candido Mendez, and the ...

27/01/2012 Fraport AG: how the company running the Frankfurt airport takes account of cultural and religious differences between its employees and its customers

Fraport, which employs nearly 12,000 people from 71 different countries at the Frankfurt Airport and welcomed, in 2011, over 56 million passengers from all over the world, the issue of ...

26/01/2012 Germany: lobbied by its members, the IG-Metall is calling for a 6.5-7 percent wage increase

The coming collective negotiations for the 3.6 million people working in the automotive, machine-tool, metal and electrical engineering industries will open on March 10. Already, key union organizations are ...

26/01/2012 Germany: agreement on employment reduction without layoffs at EON

On Tuesday, January 24, the Verdi and IG BCE unions signed a collective agreement with the management of the EON power company. Valid until 2016, this agreement determines the ...

25/01/2012 EU: ECJ renders new ruling channeling its case-law on entitlement to paid annual leave during sick leave

Called upon to rule, within the framework of a prejudicial question asked by the French Supreme Court about the compatibility of the French provision which makes entitlement to paid annual ...

25/01/2012 United States: lock-outs are back

Lock-outs - the temporary closure of a factory decided by the management -, quite rare 20 years ago, are on the rise. They point to workers' resignations in times ...

25/01/2012 Spain: unions and employers sign a series of agreements preparing for the labor market reform

The social partners (CCOO and UGT for unions and the CEOE for employers) signed, on the night of January 23, a series of agreements affecting wage moderation, internal flexibility in ...