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  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    A joint management/trade union Joint Strategic Consultative Group (JSCG) has
    been established to tackle the job of negotiating an agreement to help to
    transform state-owned Telecom Eireann to meet current and future competitive
    challenges. The key issues which the JSCG expects to address before the end
    of April 1997 are a five-year, IEP 110 million cost reduction plan, change
    and flexibility proposals and the question of an Employee Share Ownership
    Plan (ESOP), first proposed by the trade unions.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    A "national agreement" between the Italian Government and trade unions,
    signed in March 1997, has established harmonised rules for almost all
    employment in the public and private sectors.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    Negotiations to revise the important collective agreement in Portugal's
    banking sector are deadlocked. The industry's largest trade union will soon
    hold its elections, but its socialist members are divided, while substantial
    workforce reductions have been announced for the coming years.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    On 13 March 1997, Handelsanställdas förbund (Commercial Employees' Union)
    sued the company behind the 7-Eleven chain of shops for SEK 1 million
    compensation for breach of the collective agreement. The agreement in
    question is in fact a combination of two, which were agreed last summer in an
    attempt to settle a dispute concerning the unsocial hours bonus.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    Two separate strikes have been hitting the French hospital sector over
    February and March 1997. On the one hand, certain unions are campaigning
    against cuts in hospital budgets while, on the other hand, numerous trainee
    doctors and senior consultants are on strike, demanding the revision of the
    medical agreement co-signed by the health insurance office (CNAM) and the
    medical profession, which in their opinion hinders the practicing of
    professional medicine.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    On 19 March 1997, the general meeting of the Fachgemeinschaft Bau Berlin und
    Brandenburg, the regional industry and employers' association for the
    building industry in the federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg, decided to
    quit the Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes (Central Association of the
    German Building Trade, ZDB) and the Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie
    (Federal Association of the German Building Industry, HDB). In future, the
    regional association will no longer participate in the highly centralised
    collective bargaining system of the building industry, which includes central
    framework agreements (Manteltarifverträge) and national wage agreements
    (Lohntarifverträge).

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    According to the yearly wage statistics from the Danish Employers'
    Confederation (DA), 1996 was the most conflict-free year for the private
    sector labour market in the 1990s. From 1995 to 1996, the number of
    unofficial strikes - defined as those in contravention of a collective
    agreement - fell from 1,740 to 791 and the number of working days lost
    decreased by 70% to 52,808 in 1996. Although there was an overall decrease in
    working days lost, the proportion of working days lost due to wage
    disagreements increased from 45% to 52% and conflicts related to redundancies
    and dismissals increased from 5% to 13%. Between 1995 and 1996 secondary
    action fell drastically, from 34% to 9% of the total number of working days
    lost. This can be attributed to the 1995 bus conflict ("RiBus-konflikten"),
    one of the longest disputes in post-war Danish industrial relations.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    Akzo Nobel has announced that it will not observe its 1995 collective
    agreement and that it will abandon the introduction of a standard 36-hour
    week as of 1 July 1997. Its new proposals have divided the unions.

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    Over the past decade there has been increasing concern among the institutions
    of the European Union about the rising tide of racism across the member
    states. In a recent address to a conference on combating racism organised by
    the ETUC, social affairs commissioner Padraig Flynn highlighted the
    importance of the fight against racism in "achieving improved working
    conditions, creating jobs, improved industrial relations, the use of human
    resources to the best possible effect, social justice, equal opportunities,
    wealth and tolerance".

  • Article
    27 maaliskuu 1997

    On Thursday 27 February 1997 Renault announced - completely unexpectedly -
    the closure of its Belgian production plant in Vilvoorde by July of this
    year. As a result, more than 3,000 Renault employees and an estimated 1,500
    employees in direct supply companies will lose their jobs. There is a general
    consensus that the decision ignored all legal rules and procedures concerning
    factory closures. This includes ILO and OECD procedures as well as national
    codes of conduct, and European Union and national legislation on collective
    redundancies and works council rights. These regulations lay down that
    employees have to be notified before a decision about a factory closure is
    made and informed about the ways in which the company plans to deal with the
    consequences for the employees.

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  • European Company Survey 2009

    Eurofound’s European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2009, the second edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance. 

  • European Company Survey 2013

    Eurofound’s European Company Survey (ECS) maps and analyses company policies and practices which can have an impact on smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, as well as the development of social dialogue in companies. This series consists of outputs from the ECS 2013, the third edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2004–2005 as the European Establishment Survey on Working Time and Work-Life Balance.

  • European Quality of Life Survey 2003

    Eurofound’s European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general. This series consists of outputs from the EQLS 2003, the first edition of the survey.

  • European Quality of Life Survey 2007

    Eurofound's European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general. This series consists of outputs from the EQLS 2007, the second edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2003.

  • European Quality of Life Survey 2012

    Eurofound's European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS) examines both the objective circumstances of European citizens' lives and how they feel about those circumstances and their lives in general. This series consists of outputs from the EQLS 2012, the third edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 2003. 

  • European Working Conditions Survey 2005

    Eurofound’s European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. This series consists of findings from the EWCS 2005, the fourth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 1990.

  • European Working Conditions Survey 2010

    Eurofound’s European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) paints a wide-ranging picture of Europe at work across countries, occupations, sectors and age groups. This series consists of findings from the EWCS 2010, the fifth edition of the survey. The survey was first carried out in 1990.

  • Manufacturing employment outlook

    This publication series explores scenarios for the future of manufacturing. The employment implications (number of jobs by sector, occupation, wage profile, and task content) under various possible scenarios are examined. The scenarios focus on various possible developments in global trade and energy policies and technological progress and run to 2030.

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