On 1 February 2022, the World Employment Confederation-Europe (WEC Europe) and the European trade union UNI-Europe have reached an important understanding by signing the Joint Recommendations for the sector's recovery.
On 1 February 2022, the World Employment Confederation-Europe (WEC Europe) and the European trade union UNI-Europe have reached an important understanding by signing the Joint Recommendations for the sector's recovery.
The recently published Eurofund report analyses how social partners are increasingly adopting technological solutions to improve the services that they provide to their members and facilitate collective bargaining processes.
It shows that the way social partners use digital technologies varies greatly across the EU Member States, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK).
The tool guides ILO constituents and their partners through a detailed self-assessment of their institution and devise an action plan to enhance its inclusiveness and effectiveness.
On 15 September 2021, Amazon Italia Logistics and the workers' unions signed an agreement, undertaking to comply with the rules of the Logistics, Freight and Forwarding national collective agreement (CCNL) as a regulatory instrument for employment and labour relations.
It is the first agreement on the system of industrial relations with the e-commerce giant.
New Ways of Working is a new comparative reference tool developed by International Employment Lawyer,providing information on key employment and compliance topics (such as vaccinations, legislation on remote work and social relations) in 20 countries around the world.
It enables multinational employers to compare different legal systems and their approach to the pandemic and new ways of working that recently developed.
A Swedish and Danish proposal on a ‘social partners option’ to the minimum-wage directive to unblock negotiations while protecting well-functioning collective bargaining systems.
On 9 September 2021, the Labour Appeal Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, rules over fairness of dismissal of employees embarking on an unprotected strike.
The decision is based on the serious and dangerous circumstances of the strike.
The Court of Appeal reformed the decision of the Labour Court (Lagrange J) delivered on 17 September 2019, which had found the dismissal of the respondent employees to be substantively unfair and ordered their reinstatement.
Instead, the sanction of dismissal, according to the Court of Appeal, was fair, given the circumstances of the case and considering their decision to embark on an unprotected strike action at a critical business period and their persistent refusal, without bona fide reason provided, to comply with the ultimatum.