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17/05/2012 Suspension of the information thread for Ascension weekend

Starting on Thursday, May 17, we are taking a little break for Ascension weekend. Therefore, we will suspend our information thread on Wednesday night and come back on Monday morning, ...

16/05/2012 Venezuela: enforcement of new Labor Law giving workers more protection

Bringing the work week from 44 down to 40 hours, imposing to consecutive days off a week, and extending maternity leave to six months are some of the measures introduced ...

16/05/2012 Sweden: new agreement in rail transport

On May 3, the Almega tjänsteförbunden employers' organization and SEKO (the Swedish union for Service and Communication Employees), ST (State services), and Sveriges Ingenjörer (Swedish engineers) signed an agreement affecting ...

16/05/2012 Germany: a 6.5 percent wage increase and job security for the 18,500 employees of T-Systems, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary

After signing, on April 28, first agreement for the 16,500 employees of the headquarters of Deutsche Telekom (DTAG), and then a second agreement on May 7 for the 50,000 ...

16/05/2012 United States: unionization procedure reform tossed

When the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) had only three members instead of five, six months ago, its only Republican member failed to take part in the vote, at least ...

16/05/2012 Spain: interview of José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, Federal secretary at Comfia-CCOO, the financial services federation, about his organization's CSR and SRI actions

José Carlos Gonzalez Lorente, CSR representative for Comfia-CCOO, the union federations of financial and administrative services of the Workers' Commissions union, is telling Planet Labor about corporate social responsibility and ...

15/05/2012 EU: European metal, chemical and textile employers in favor of framework conditions that ease prompt restructurings and transitions

In a joint statement released on May 10, the CEEMET (metal), the ECEG (chemistry) and EURATEX (textile) answered the consultation on restructurings launched by the European Commission in January. ...

15/05/2012 Greece: wage elements neutralized in a great deal of sectoral collective agreements

Today, May 15, is a pivotal day for sectoral collective agreements. Indeed, on this day, a great deal of existing collective agreements will stop producing all their effects as ...

15/05/2012 Italy: first union dedicated to internet professionals within the Uiltucs union federation

A pioneer in Italy, SindicatoNetworkers.it was officially created in October 2011 within the Uiltucs, the Uil's federation of tourism, trade and services, and will mostly operate online. The aim ...

15/05/2012 Germany: Verdi is about to launch warning strikes in the banking industry

Because employers keep refusing to grant its request, Verdi, the services union, which has been renegotiating banking collective agreements since March 1, has decided to adopt a harder tone. ...