Agreements

The Union of Metalworkers (IF Metall [1]) estimates that the agreement on temporary layoffs has saved 1,200 jobs, based on a survey conducted among the 60,000 members who work in companies which have signed the agreement. According to the agreement – which is a new feature in Swedish industrial

The collective bargaining process for the revision of the agreement in the graphics and printing industry, which started in April 2007, reached an impasse between the two parties concerned – namely, the Trade Union of Workers of the Pulp, Paper, Graphics and Press Industries (Sindicato dos

The preliminary accord on continuing the nationwide collective agreement for the information and communications technologies (ICT) sector is the second renewal of an important nationwide agreement by all bargaining parties after the agreement of 22 January 2009 on the reform of the Italian

In February 2001, the Portuguese government and social partners signed an agreement aimed at improving working conditions and health and safety at the workplace and combating accidents at work. The accord provides for measures aimed at preventing and combating workplace accidents, and improving

On the brink of a conflict and after 41 hours of non-stop negotiations, the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI) and the Central Organisation of Industrial Employees in Denmark (Centralorganisationen af Industriansatte i Danmark, CO-industri) reached a compromise over a collective

On 20 October 1997 wage and salary collective agreements for industrial enterprises in the metalworking sector were concluded, which became effective from 1 November 1997 (AT9710138N [1]). They were negotiated by the Industry Federal Section of the Austrian Chamber of the Economy (Wirtschaftskammer

There has, in recent years, been an increasing focus on corporate conduct in terms of social, ethical and environmental performance. The experience of large multinational corporations such as Nike and Shell, which have been faced with protest campaigns against their social and environmental policies

Since the beginning of the 1990s, the German system of branch-level collective agreements (branchenbezogene Flächentarifverträge) has been in an continuing process of change in the direction of a differentiation between companies of collectively agreed norms and standards, and a decentralisation of