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.
Business NZ has formally rejected the offer to be the Government’s nominated default partner in implementing compulsory national pay agreements known as Fair Pay Agreements (FPAs).
A default partner would be required to represent employers who would be covered by FPAs if no other representative industry organisation was available or willing to represent employers.
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.
From 8 to 11 November 2021 at the Namibia University of Science and Technology Hotel School was held the first National Apprenticeship Week, aiming to promote apprenticeship in Namibia and highlighting the significance that it can have for economy, society and business.
On 28 September 2021, a web-based Covid-19 risk assessment service has been launched by Minister of Manpower, Ida Fauziyah, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Japan, Masami Tamura, and Michiko Miyamoto, Country Director for International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Indonesia.
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.
Flexicurity is an integrated strategy for enhancing, at the same time, flexibility and security in the labour market. It attempts to reconcile employers' need for a flexible workforce with workers' need for security.
The “Hilfr agreement”, signed by the cleaning platform Hilfr and the United Federation of Danish Workers, is one of the first examples for collective bargaining and of attempt in flexicurity terms in the platform economy.
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.
The Brief focuses on tripartite and bipartite social dialogue initiatives between governments and employers' and workers' organisations at national or sectoral level, which have been instrumental in shaping countries' responses to the crisis from 1 February 2020 to 31 January 2021.
It follows an earlier ILO Research Brief which provided an initial mapping and structured analysis of national social dialogue instances and outcomes aimed to address the impacts of the covid-19 pandemic and to boost the resilience of the world of work, during the first three months of the crisis – the “emergency period” from 15 March to 10 June 2020.
The first two complaints using the RRLM were filed in May of this year. The American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) filed a complaint against Tridonex on 10 May 2021 and the United States Trade Representative filed a complaint against General Motors (GM) on 12 May 2021.
On 10 August 2021, the Tridonex case ended with an agreement between the Company and the US Government.
On 17 August 2021, workers at General Motors plant, after an initial vote in April marred by spoiled ballots, voted to scrap their collective contract under the supervision of independent observers to guarantee a fair vote.
A legal framework for telework does not exist in Morocco yet.
The General Confederation of Moroccan Enterprises (Confederation Générale des Entreprises du Maroc, CGEM) announced to have finalised a draft law on teleworking to be shared with the two most representative trade unions in the private sector.
Once discussed with the unions, the copy will be given to the Minister of Employment to start the dialogue.
The project will support the transition from the informal to the formal economy through tripartite social dialogue in Arab States
The move to formality is a way to increase access to decent work and reduce poverty, foster sustainable and productive enterprises that compete in fair domestic and international markets and increase the power of government.
The renewed declaration outlines the importance of avoiding the risk of losing the next generation of industrial workers by relaunching high-quality and effective apprenticeships.
It contains also a call for Member States to put apprenticeships in their recovery agendas and to allocate adequate funding.
Social partners recently confirmed the joint recommendations signed in December 2019 on collective dismissals and agreed to assess their content again within three years
The Government communicated its desire to evaluate an improvement of the entire system, thus overriding the social dialogue outcome.
In January 2021 Belgian social partners signed a framework agreement on methods of work, working conditions and occupational health and safety for employees working from remote
The agreement leaves room to further agreements at the company level or specific individual agreement
In Vietnam, labour laws, policies and practices are going through significant changes. A new labour code entered into force in January 2021
New policies put greater emphasis on social dialogue at the workplace, collective bargaining and diversified types of Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs)
Following allegation of corruption in a public health insurance company, a bipartite institution requested the Government to halt the annual increase on the health contribution;
It also requested the Government for the suspension in the rise of social security contributions.
Two years after a platform company signed a collective agreement with a trade union, the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority considered it does not align with the EU competition law
The authority required the company to partially modify their business model to fully comply with the EU law
The text contains important updates and simplification measures compared to the previous collective agreement, on categories, qualifications, organisation of work, and salaries.
The private employment service sector signs an agreement with the trade unions that clarifies the “neutrality” of this extension vis-à-vis the maximum number of extensions.
Two tripartite Committees designed measures to sustain enterprises, employment and economic resilience.
Ghana’s Employers’ Association was at the forefront of these negotiations and successfully presented multiple proposals to support business and as a result employees.
Social partners of the staffing sector agreed to renew the collective agreement on outsourcing of services (“Location de services”) valid for the entire country and signed the first time in 2012.
The collective agreement defines working conditions and remuneration steps, as well as training possibilities and social security conditions.
The Committee was established on the top of the existing social dialogue institutions with the objective to deal with issues specific to Covid-19 crisis.
One of the topics for reflection is a new legislation on remote working.
In August 2020, Indonesian social partners from the garment and footwear industries signed a joint commitment “to protect health, business sustainability and welfare of workers in these sectors”.
The joint statement focused on topics such as freedom of association and collective bargaining, social dialogue, occupational health and safety, social responsible practices and the stability of payments.
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